As the end of the year countdown begins, keeping students engaged and focused can feel like a challenge—especially during those busy end of the year mornings! One of the easiest ways to maintain routines and minimize chaos during the countdown to summer is with these end of the year fine motor activities for morning tubs. In addition to strengthening essential fine motor skills, these end of the year activities help students review key math and literacy concepts they’ve worked on all year long. Perfect for morning tubs, centers, or early finishers, they keep little hands busy and learning, while giving you a few much-needed moments to tackle end of the year tasks, checklists, and celebrations!

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Literacy End of the Year Fine Motor Activities

These literacy end of the year fine motor activities are perfect for morning tubs, centers, and early finishers.

Even better, they’re easy to prep, using supplies you likely already have in your classroom!

Here’s a look at the literacy fine motor activities:

ABC Seashells

Students will work on ABC order as they use chain links to connect the seashells. There are both uppercase letters and lowercase letters included for this morning tub activity.

CVC Snail Trails

With those chain links still handy, students will connect the letters/sounds for each CVC word in the correct order.

Scooping Up Sounds

Like the previous end of the year fine motor activities, this morning tub also uses chain links to connect the correct ice cream scoop to each cone.

Flying Fireflies

With this end of the year fine motor activity, students will use a dry erase marker to trace each firefly path.

Splashing Letters

With dry erase markers still in hand, students will help the girl get to the swimming pool by tracing each letter with their marker.

Pool Vowels

Students will clip the correct middle sound using a clothespin with this end of the year fine motor activity.

Popsicle Stick Letters

For this morning tub, students will clip the correct popsicle stick to each popsicle. You can write the lowercase letters on the “popsicle stick” using an ultra fine-tip Sharpie, or you can use these ready-made alphabet clothespins.

S’more Syllables

Students will roll four balls of play dough and place one ball inside each marshmallow. Then they will smash one “marshmallow” for each syllable they hear.

Word Family Buckets

For this fine motor activity, the students will use a clothespin to clip the correct rime/word family.

Digraph Lemons

This is a great fine motor activity for working on the pincer grasp. Students will use tweezers to place pom poms on the lemons that begin or end with the digraph shown on the cup.

Summer Connections

Students will love building each summer design using snap cubes for this end of the year morning work activity.

Math End of the Year Fine Motor Activities

While students always enjoy the literacy end of the year fine motor activities, it’s just as important to mix in some hands-on math!

Here’s a little peek at the math end of the year fine motor activities:

Base Ten Flip Flops

Students will work on place value, as they use chain links, to show the tens and ones for each number.

Scooping Patterns

For this morning tub activity, the students will use tweezers and pom poms to extend the pattern with the correct colors.

Surfboard Size

To work on nonstandard measurement, the students will measure the length of each surfboard using linking cubes.

Popsicle Number Order

At this end of the year fine motor center, students will use chain links to connect the popsicle pieces in numerical order.

Baseball Paper Clips

Using a paperclip, students will slide the clip onto the correct number of bats.

Collecting Shells

Students will complete the number bond by using tweezers to place the correct number of pom poms on the empty shell.

Counting Seeds

Keep those tweezers and pom poms handy for this next fine motor activity, as students will use tweezers to place the correct number of seeds on each watermelon.

Crabby Subitizing

Students will use clothespins to clip all of the number representations that match the number on the bucket with this subitizing activity.

Sandy Shapes

For this shape activity, use play dough to form each shape and mark the correct real-life objects.

Sorting Shovels

At this fine motor activity, students will sort beads by color.

Pattern Block Pictures

For this final end of the year fine motor activity, students will roll a die and place the correct pattern block on the design. They will continue to roll and build until the design is complete.

Tools for End of the Year Fine Motor Activities

Here is a complete list of tools the students will need to complete these end of the year fine motor activities:

1. Chain Links
2. Dry Erase Markers
3. Clothespins
4. Alphabet Clothespins
5. Play Dough
6. Tweezers
7. Pom Poms
8. Snap Cubes
9. Linking Cubes
10. Paperclips
11. Beads
12. Dice
13. Pattern Blocks

End of the Year Fine Motor Activities

Grab all 20 math and literacy end of the year fine motor activities, including two bonus activities here!

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