Vegetable Garden Fine Motor Activity and FREE Printable

More Spring Fine Motor Activities

Spring Fine Motor Activities are essential for every Spring themed curriculum. These are some of my favorite play ideas to help toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners to develop fine motor skills while they play.

1. Spring Tree Threading Activity
2. DIY Butterfly Peg Board
3. Frog Pond Playdough
4. Flower Posting Activity
5. Free Spring Fine Motor Pom Pom Mats

For more fun ideas, check out these 20 Spring Fine Motor Activities.

Materials Needed

• An empty tissue box
• 20 craft sticks
• Paint or colored paper (to decorate tissue box)
• Stanley knife
• Glue
• Laminator
• Laminating sheet
• Free Vegetable Garden Printable below.

How to Make a Vegetable Garden Posting Activity

1. Print your free copy of the Vegetable Garden Printable

Download and print the free prinable vegetables.

All you need to do is head to the bottom of the post and click the large blue button to get your copy.

2. Laminate the page and cut out the individual vegetables

3. Glue the vegetables onto the tip of the craft sticks.

I used colored craft sticks because at the time that was all I had. But in hindsight, this was a wonderful idea because it reinforced the concept of “eat the rainbow”. In order to have a healthy diet, you need to eat fruits and vegetables in a variety of colors. It also gave us a starting point for discussing the activity.

4. Decorate your tissue box.

I used brown paint for the top of the tissue box, and green colored paper for the sides.

I also decided to decorate the green paper with white flowers, however this is completely optional. If you’re feeling creative you can always try making a rabbit down a rabbit hole, or a family of mice instead.

5. Use the Stanley knife to cut 20 strips/holes into the top of the tissue box.

These strips only need to be as big as the craft sticks. However, if you would prefer to have larger holes or fewer holes then you absolutely can.

I chose 20 specifically to encourage my kids to count to 20 as they were “planting” their vegetables. 

However, you can create this activity with 10 vegetables instead, if you’re working on counting to 10.

How to play

This activity is very simple. Take a craft stick and put it into one of the holes in the tissue box. Although this activity is very simple it’s a fantastic way to develop fine motor skills and it provides a lot of opportunities for extended learning.

What You’re Learning

These are a few examples of different areas to explore with the kids. As well as some sample questions to ask while they’re playing.

Healthy eating

1. What color they are?
2. How do they taste?
3. Why we need to eat them?
4. How often should we eat vegetables?

 Farming and Gardening

1. What do the vegetables need to grow?
2. How do they get what they need?

Counting

1. How many vegetables do you have?
2. Are there more orange vegetables or green ones?
3. Let’s count them together.

Sorting

1. Sort into different colors.
2. Can you sort into vegetables that grow below and above the ground?
3. What about sorting into ones I like and ones I’m still getting used to.