Reggio fine motor activities

Sensory bin filled with colorful pipe cleaner worms for preschoolers to use fine motor skills to sort colors while feeding the baby birds!

Threading is always popular and this is slightly different with the use of scarves. A collection of napkin rings which are easy to find at second hand stores to thread them through. #finemotorskills #earlychildhood #eylf #preschool #kindergarten #handsonleaning #learningthroughplay

Digging for Spaghetti Worms 🪱 It’s not only exciting, it’s a great way to practice fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination and the kids had so much...

It is a good learning opportunity for children to develop their pincer grasping skills. According to the lecture notes, one of the principles of Reggio Emilia’s approach is bringing the outdoors in. (Locke, 2023, Slide 11). It is a Reggio-inspired learning opportunity because the twig provided in the learning opportunity comes from nature. It is also an age-appropriate learning opportunity for infants and toddlers because it can enhance fine motor skills related to their milestones.

Set up a fun, no preparation, pumpkin fine motor skills activity for Autumn play and learning! This combines motor skills and creativity and is a great hand strengthener for pre-writing development. Last Autumn we set out an invitation to play with pine cones and rubber bands which was s popular with the kids and also...Read More »

Handwriting has never been easy to teach to kindergartners, but it is in the Common Core Standards that they learn how to print letters correctly. Each year I have tried through the traditional ways of working on fine motor skills the first half and then formal handwriting sheets the second half of the year. It never worked so this year I tried something new... An inquiry about lines! I asked the kids what kind of lines they knew of. At first they drew straight lines, but then started to…

Spaghetti Bead Towers are a fun fine motor activity for preschoolers!