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20 April Fine Motor Activities for Morning Tubs

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With spring in full bloom and the end of the year on the horizon, it can feel like a challenge to keep students engaged! But with consistent routines and predictability, like these April fine motor activities for morning tubs, you are sure to keep everyone motivated and learning! These soft start activities are the perfect way to kick off the day, giving students a fun, hands-on way to review math and literacy skills while warming up their brains for a productive day ahead!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

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April Fine Motor Activities for Math

These April fine motor activities for math are not only great for spring morning tubs, but they can also be used for spring centers, early finisher activities, or as fine motor bins throughout the day.

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Students first order the flowers from the shortest to the tallest and then measure the stems using linking cubes.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Counting Raindrops

Work on number recognition and formation with play dough! Students form each number and then place the correct number of raindrops on each umbrella.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Caterpillar Patterns

The students strengthen their pincer grasp and hand-eye coordination as they tweeze pom pom balls to build and extend each pattern on the caterpillar.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Ten Fram Umbrellas

April showers, bring May flowers! For this fine motor activity, the students will clip the correct umbrella handle (number) to each umbrella ten frame.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Egg-cellent Colors

Students will get egg-cited for this April fine motor activity as they sort the eggs (pony beads) by color and string them onto the correct pipe cleaner.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Busy Bees

This is one of those April fine motor activities that requires a partner. To play, the students spin the spinner and move their bee forward or backward that many spaces on the number line. The first person to reach the number 20 is the winner!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Bye Bye Birdie

The students strengthen their hand muscles as they punch out the correct number of birds and write the difference in the box provided. At the end of this April fine motor activity, the students will be able to stack and staple the pages into a book.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Lightning Lengths

Working on 1:1 counting is electrifying (see what I did there?!) with this April fine motor activity! Students hook the correct number of links to build each lightning bolt!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Feed the Bunny

With tweezers and pom poms, students get to work on adding within 5. The students will feed the bunny the correct number of each color carrot and then complete the number sentence.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Bird Nest Bonds

Keep those tweezers and pom poms handy for this number bonds activity! The student will roll two dice, add that many “eggs” to the work mat, and write the number sentence using a dry erase marker.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Pattern Block Pictures

Pattern blocks are a math manipulative favorite, so of course this is a top pick among students! For this April fine motor activity, the students roll a die, and add that shape to the design. They continue rolling and building until the design is complete.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

April Fine Motor Activities for Literacy

While the April fine motor activities for math are always a hit, let’s not forget about these hands-on April fine motor activities for literacy!

CVC Bunnies

Work on building CVC words with chain links for this literacy activity!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

CVC Trees

This is another great CVC word activity, but this time instead of building the entire CVC word, the students get to wok on identifying and clipping the middle sound to the tree.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Raindrop Rimes

Get those chain links back out for this CVC word family activity! The students get to link each raindrop to the correct word family cloud.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Beginning Sound Bunnies

This morning tub activity is not only great for identifying beginning sounds, it is also great for working on upper and lowercase letters. The students will listen to the beginning sound and clip the correct “bunny ears” on each bunny.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Bunny Blends

Hop on over to this morning tub where students listen for the beginning blend and cover the egg with the appropriate colored pom pom.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Rhyming Chickens

A fun way to work on rhyming is this rhyming chickens center! Students punch the eggs that rhyme with each picture inside the chicken.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Chick Digraphs

For this morning tub, the students listen for the beginning digraph and link the eggs to the correct chick.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Shinning Alphabet

Keep those chain links handy to work on ABC order with this Shinning Alphabet activity!

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Spring Connections

Students snap cubes to strengthen fine motor muscles, as well as create a spring themed picture! Then, they trace the word with a dry erase marker.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Springtime Syllables

This is one of my students’ favorite April fine motor activities! They love building each picture with play dough, and they especially enjoy smashing the number of syllables they hear.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Egg-cellent Designs

For this bonus April fine motor activity, the students trace the line on each egg using play dough or a dry erase marker.

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

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Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 April fine motor activities for kids also work well for center activities and use common classroom supplies. Make your morning routine a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these morning tub ideas. These spring fine motor activities are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for morning bins, fine motor tubs, April morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

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As a dedicated Kindergarten teacher for nearly 20 years, I believe the words “fun, play, and creativity” can sit right alongside the words “developmentally appropriate, engaging, and rigorous.” Learning is meant to be fun and messy!

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