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20 February Fine Motor Activities for Morning Tubs

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Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

In a recent blog post, I shared how technology and increased demands on our time has made it more difficult for our young learners to get the fine motor practice they need. My favorite way to sneak in a little extra fine motor practice is with fine motor morning tubs. They have been the perfect soft start to our day! Just what my students need to warm up their brains, as we get ready to tackle the busy school day. Here are just a few of my favorite February fine motor activities for literacy and math!

You can also weave a little fine motor practice into your center rotations, early finisher activities and small group instruction!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

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February Fine Motor Activities for Literacy

Brushing Up on ABC’s

Work those pincer muscles by having the students clip the correct toothbrush handle (letter) onto the toothbrush bristles. Match upper to upper, or upper to lower.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Smile Worthy Words

Unscramble the sight word, and write it inside the mouth. Brush away the word using a toothbrush!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Here’s another variation, using the same scrambled word cards. For this one, the students will unscramble the sight word by threading letter beads onto a pipe cleaner.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Match the Shadows

Using chain links, students match each groundhog to his shadow by finding the rhyming word pairs. Rhyming builds on phonemic awareness skills, which is such an important early literacy skill, and the chain links build on that muscle control in the fingers!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Sunny Sight Words

Pinching clothespins is a great way to exercise pincer muscles needed for controlling pencils, crayons and scissors. Plus, you can use them to build sight words!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Unlock the CVC Word

This is one of my favorite February fine motor activities! The students will stretch out each word and unlock the CVC word by linking the sounds in the correct order.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Love Letters

For this activity, the students will listen to the beginning sound and link the Valentine with the appropriate envelope.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Colorful Hearts

Students read the color word on each heart card. Then, sort manipulatives into colored groups. If you have colored beads or heart beads, you can up the fine motor rigor in this activity by asking them to string the beads in each group!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Colorful Candy

Read each color word, and use tweezers to put the “candy” in the candy box.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Washington’s Words

Around President’s Day, I love having president-themed activities out for my students to help reinforce what we’re learning about in social studies! These word cards are missing the vowel in each CVC word. Write vowels on a set of clothespins, and students can place the correct clothespin in each empty space on the card!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Lincoln’s Letters

Did you know that Abe Lincoln kept important letters and papers under his hat? Build fine motor skills by linking the hats in alphabetical order.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Popsicle Stick Pictures

Using colored popsicle sticks, students fill in the picture on each mat. Then, they read and trace each sentence that matches the picture.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

February Fine Motor Activities for Math

Loose Tooth Extraction

February is also dental hygiene awareness month, so teeth-themed activities are fun to include in your center work during this time of year. I love giving students a subtraction sentence, and allowing them to use tweezers to remove the “teeth” (cotton balls or white pom poms) from the picture! So much fun!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Loose Tooth Race

Here’s another fun one! Place 20 teeth in the mouth. Roll the die, and “pull out” that many teeth. The first person to lose all of their teeth wins!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

For an added challenge, use a +/- die! I found these at my local teaching store.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Count the Teeth

Use tweezers and pom poms or beads to place the correct number of “teeth” inside each mouth.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Build a Burrow

Snap cubes provide powerful fine motor practice! The muscle control that it takes to connect and pull apart the cubes is great for little hands. In this activity, students will use the snap cubes (or dirt blocks) to build a burrow for the groundhog! Bonus points if they use their visual-spatial reasoning skills to make the burrow look like the picture!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Feed the Groundhog

At this center, the students will use tweezers and pom poms to feed the groundhog the correct number of each color flower. Once they have modeled the subtraction problem, they will complete the number sentence.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Groundhog Shapes

Students use popsicle sticks and string to build the same shape as the groundhog’s face in the picture.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Candy Heart Patterns

Making patterns with tweezers and pom poms is a fun way to strengthen fine motor and patterning skills all at the same time!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Build a Log Cabin

This fine motor activity helps the students practice nonstandard measurement. First, they will order the log cabins from the shortest to the tallest. Then, they will measure them using popsicle sticks.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Lincoln’s Lengthy Hats

Here’s another activity that works on measurement, but this time with linking cubes.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Star Spangled Numbers

Play dough is another great tool for strengthening finger and hand muscles. For this activity, the students will use play dough to make each number.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Pattern Block Pictures

Pattern blocks are not only great fine motor work, but they also build on critical thinking skills! Using the key on the mat, students roll dice  and choose the matching shapes to add to the picture. They continue rolling and building until the picture is complete!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

More Fine Motor Activities

If you are looking for the full set of February fine motor activities, you can find them HERE!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

Don’t forget to include a few February fine motor activities at your classroom Valentine’s Day party!

Keep your little lovebugs distanced, yet engaged, and your classroom Valentine’s Day party well-managed with these social distancing Valentine’s Day party ideas for the classroom, including Valentine’s Day crafts, Valentine’s Day games and Valentine’s treats! These no contact Valentine’s Day party activities are sure to be a lovely hit this February! #winter #valentinesday #valentinesdaypartyideas #classroomvalentinesdayparty #diyvalentines #diyvalentinesdayparty #valentinecrafts #valentinegames #valentinestreats #winteractivities

Plus, your students will enjoy these fine motor activities for the 100th Day of School!

Celebrate the 100th Day of School with these engaging fine motor activities for kids! Your kiddos are sure to have a blast with these 100th Day of School activities on the 100th Day of Kindergarten!

If you’re looking for ideas for other times of the year, click HERE!

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