Christmas Fine Motor Skills Cutting Practice
Quick and easy Christmas Fine Motor Skills set up with recycled cards! This is so SIMPLE. All you need is a handful of old holiday cards (or any cards!) and a pair of scissors. We love fun cutting skills trays with new materials.
Looking through stacks of cards, I thought they would be great for something. Home made puzzles! I precut the puzzles with different piece sizes and shapes and amounts. A more advanced child can cut his own puzzles. I made one for each part of the tray! He loves his tray and being able to pick which one he wants to do next. In the center, I placed some gift bag tags and a pair of scissors for him to make his own puzzles. (Great for multiple ages and skills!) I love finding ways to use what we have! This was our first Christmas fine motor skills tray and it was so fun and easy!
He practiced cutting them into four pieces each and putting them back together. This is a unique way to work on puzzle skills for Liam because he doesn’t generally enjoy boxed puzzles!
Liam does a great job cutting when I encourage him to slow down and and make complete cuts! Here are 10 more Preschool Christmas fine motor skills
Preschool Art Christmas Stamping by Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
Stringing Pom Poms by 3 Dinosaurs
3 Fun Christmas Cutting Practice Activities by Lalymom
Holiday Window Tracing by Teach Preschool
Alphabet Christmas Tree by No Time For Flash Cards
Christmas Box Counting and Number Matching by I Can Teach My Child
Montessori for the Holidays (Snowflake Punching) by Vibrant Wanderings
Montessori Christmas Activities by Racheous Lovable Learning
Simple Christmas Sewing Activities for Preschoolers by Childhood 101
Christmas Fine Motor Skills with Beads, Styrofoam and Toothpicks by Sow Sprout Play
Time for Fine Motor Fridays!
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Snowflake Light Table Play & 14 Christmas & Winter Light Table Fine Motor Ideas by And Next Comes L
30 Christmas Play Recipes by Craftulate
Montessori Fine Motor Christmas Ideas by Racheous Lovable Learning
Christmas Tree Geoboard and 24 Christmas Tree Fine Motor Activities by School Time Snippets
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Rachel | Racheous - Lovable Learning
December 6, 2013 at 2:05 pmPuzzles with old Christmas cards is just TOO clever! Love all these ideas 😀
littlebins
December 10, 2013 at 1:31 amThanks Rachel!
Cassie @ 3Dinosaurs.com
December 6, 2013 at 2:28 pmThanks for including 3 Dinosaurs!
Georgina @ Craftulate
December 6, 2013 at 2:56 pmOoooh we love puzzles at our house – we’ll definitely be doing this!
Kristina
December 6, 2013 at 3:39 pmUsing old cards is a great idea! I’m sure we have a stash somewhere! I just bought a new tray, too- love your ideas!
Laura @ Lalymom
December 6, 2013 at 4:33 pmAwesome activity and super round up! Soo many ideas that my daughter will LOVE! The card puzzles….so genius. I love that sewing tree too. Thanks for putting together such a fun list of activities!!
littlebins
December 9, 2013 at 4:13 pmThanks for putting the whole thing together Laura. We had fun with this!
Emma
December 6, 2013 at 6:15 pmI love how you reused the Christmas cards (and threw in some fine motor practice too!). I always hate just tossing them in the recycling bin! Good idea!
littlebins
December 9, 2013 at 4:12 pmUse what you got is my motto these days!
Samantha @ Stir the Wonder
December 6, 2013 at 11:21 pmooh! I see some fun activities! Thanks for sharing!
littlebins
December 9, 2013 at 4:12 pmThanks Samantha!
Dyan
December 8, 2013 at 4:32 pmSo many great ideas shared, but I love how you reused the Christmas cards. I hate throwing them out too, by the way. I also love how you managed to turn it into a puzzle without it seeming too much like a puzzle for Liam.
littlebins
December 9, 2013 at 4:10 pmThanks Dyan, we are so sneaky around here!
Theres Just One Mommy
December 9, 2013 at 11:05 pmLove using old Christmas cards like this! Going to try it with my little guy this week. PInned!
littlebins
December 10, 2013 at 1:32 amSo easy, budget friendly, and recyclable too!