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20 Fine Motor Spring Activities for May Morning Tubs

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With the end of the school year on the horizon, maintaining solid routines and procedures is more important than ever! The best way to keep your blossoming learners engaged during morning work is with these fine motor spring activities for May morning tubs! These May fine motor activities let students independently review important math and literacy skills, giving you, the teacher, uninterrupted time to tackle your busy morning duties.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

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May Fine Motor Spring Activities for Math

These math fine motor spring activities are perfect for morning tubs, but they’re also versatile enough for centers, early finisher activities, or fine motor bins at any time of the day.

Best of all, they’re designed to use everyday classroom supplies!

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May Fine Motor Activities for May Morning Work Tubs

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Planting 5’s or 10’s

The students will count by 5s or 10s as they plant the flowers (popsicle sticks with number cards) in the soil (play dough).

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A tub of kinetic sand would also work well as soil.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Kite Tail Patterns

With linking cubes, the students will extend AB, ABB, AAB and ABC patterns to complete the kite tail.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Colorful Butterflies

The students will work on sorting by attribute, as they sort the beads to the same colored butterfly.

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Build a Beehive

Using hexagon pattern blocks, the students will work on 1:1 counting as they build each beehive.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Counting Fireflies

Another great way to work on 1:1 counting and number formation is this “Counting Fireflies” activity. First, the students will use play dough to form each number. Then, they will place the correct number of fireflies on the ten frame(s).

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Snail Shapes

A fun way to work on identifying 2D shapes is this “Snail Shapes” activity. The students punch out the shapes that are the same as what they see on the snail.

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Paper Clip Petals

The students will use paper clips to add the correct number of petals to each flower as they work on 1:1 counting to 20.

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Leapfrog Race

This is one of the fine motor spring activities that serves as a great partner game.

For this math activity, the students will take turns spinning the spinner and moving forward or backward that many spaces on the number line. The first person to reach the number 20 wins!

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Releasing Bugs

With a pair of tweezers and pom poms, the students will choose a subtraction equation and model the problem by releasing the correct number of bugs from the bug container.

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10 Busy Bees

Students will love decomposing 10 as they use “bees” to show how to make ten.

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Stretchy Spring

A favorite among the May fine motor activities is this “Stretchy Spring” activity. The students will use geoboards and bands to create each picture and then trace the word.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

May Fine Motor Spring Activities for Literacy

The literacy fine motor spring activities are just as much fun as the math fine motor spring activities! Here is a sneak peek at what’s included!

Build the Butterfly

The students will build each butterfly by linking the onset to the correct rime.

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CVC Bumblebees

Keep those chain links handy, as students build a variety of CVC words.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Watering Can Vowels

The students will listen to the middle sound and use chain links to connect the water drops to the correct watering can.

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Beginning Sound Blooms

Work on those important beginning sounds by clipping the correct stem (letter) to each flower.

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Place the Petals

Another way to strengthen those fine motor muscles using clothespins is with this “Place the Petals” activity. The students will listen to the beginning or ending digraph and place the “petals” on the correct pictures.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Springtime Decodable Sentences

This May fine motor activity hits on a variety of important skills including: constructing sentences, recognizing sight words, and decoding CVC, CCVC and CVCC words.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

The students must link the word cards in the correct order to form a sentence. Then, they read the sentence and decode any unknown words.

Kite Tail Blends

For this May fine motor activity, the student will listen to the beginning blend and link the bows for each kite tail to the correct kite.

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Word Family Flowers

The students will punch out the flowers that belong to the same word family with this fine motor literacy activity!

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Tracing Worm Trails

With a dry erase marker, the students will trace each worm trail. Great for prewriting lines practice.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

See and Spot

Work on sight word recognition with this literacy activity. The students will read each word and cover it with the appropriate pom pom color using a pair of tweezers.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Popsicle Stick Pictures

For more sight word recognition practice enjoy these “Popsicle Stick Pictures.” First, the students will build each design using popsicle sticks. Then, they will read and/or trace each sentence.

Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!

Tools for November Fine Motor Activities

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May Fine Motor Activities

Grab all 20 math and ELA May fine motor spring activities, including two bonus activities here!

May Fine Motor Activities for May Morning Work Tubs

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Beat spring fever, as you solve the mystery of the missing seeds, with these Spring or Easter escape room spring activities for kids! Students will complete up to eight plant activities and plant centers for kindergarten. At the math centers and literacy centers, students will practice decomposing numbers, comparing numbers, recognizing 2D and 3D shapes, adding, subtracting, beginning blends, CVCe words, middle sounds, and high frequency words. Download your spring centers for kindergarten now!

This butterfly life cycle craft is a great spring activity for little learners!

Learning all about butterflies is always a favorite spring life cycle activity for preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade students! This interactive butterfly life cycle craft is perfect for reviewing the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly. Use pasta with the butterfly life cycle printable to help solidify their learning about how butterflies change and grow. Add this butterfly life cycle activity to your spring craft ideas for kids!

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Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers!
Ditch the morning worksheets and provide a soft start to your day, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these 20 May fine motor activities for morning tubs! These fine motor activities for kids help create a consistent and predictable morning routine. These spring fine motor activities and morning tub ideas are the perfect soft starts in the classroom. Use these soft start activities for not only morning bins, but also fine motor centers, May 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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