Wrap the Present Fine Motor Activity for Kids

This Wrap the Present Activity is a fun and easy fine motor activity for young children. Your kids will have so much fun wrapping their own toys and mimicking real life.

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If you’re trying to get ready for this holiday season, and want some festive play ideas to try with your kids, then take a look at all of our Christmas activities for kids. Or you can invest in the Christmas Activity Pack, which is filled with educational printables for young kids.

Table of Contents

• What You’ll Need
• Instructions
• More Christmas Fine Motor Activities
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Materials Needed

1. Wrapping paper
2. Scissors
3. Sticky Tape
4. Small toys

How to Make and Play the Wrap the Present Fine Motor Activity

1. Set up your materials.

For this activity I pre cut several pieces of wrapping paper for my kids. Then all I needed was a collection of small toys, some scissors and sticky tape.

2. Pick a toy.

Place a toy in the middle of your paper, look at how big the paper is compared to the toy. If the paper is too big, move on to step 3. If it’s the right size, move on to step 4.

3. Cut the paper to size.

Since I precut the wrapping paper, it was a lot easier for my kids to practice their scissor skills. I think that asking them to cut the paper straight off the entire roll would have been too much for them.

I also made the pieces rather large, because I wanted my kids to experiment with the different sizes and how having a piece of paper that was too small or too big for the object they chose would affect their wrapping.

4. Wrap the toys

Play around with folding or scrunching the paper around the toys. Your kids will also need to experiment with the amount of force they exert on the wrapping paper. i.e. If they pull the paper too hard, it’s going to rip.

5. Seal it shut

Use sticky tape to attach the pieces of wrapping paper together, concealing the toy inside.

6. Repeat.

Enjoy wrapping as many toys as you like. If your kids love dramatic play, they can also go and place their presents underneath the Christmas tree or pretend to be Santa Claus delivering gifts.

More Christmas Themed Fine Motor Activities

There are so many fun ways to develop fine motor skills this holiday season. Start with some of these Christmas play ideas, designed to help strengthen little hands and fingers.

1. Christmas Tree Sticky Wall
2. Playdough Christmas Trees
3. Christmas Necklaces
4. Christmas Fine Motor Mats
5. Pine Cone Christmas Tree Activity

For more ideas, take a look at all of our Christmas Fine Motor Activities for Kids.

Are you going to try this Wrap the Present Activity with your kids? Don’t forget to pin the idea for later.

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