Putting Together Fine Motor Skill Kits

Each year I have students who struggle with their fine motor skills. I believe many kids these day are often more into screens than building, crafting and so many other tinkering activities. In the classroom, many teachers are feeling the push for academics that it is not always happening in the classroom either. I decided to put together some fine motor kids that will hopefully give my students the opportunity to build their fine motor muscles.

Fine Motor Kits

Before I went out and bought a bunch of things, I first looked to see what I already had. Most items I used were found in my house or classroom. Here are some of the kit contents.

If you don’t have some or any of these items, you can find links to some of the items below.

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Fine Motor Kit Supplies

For the individual kits, I wanted something that I could store if need be. These photo storage kits work great. There are 16 individual containers in the box, which makes for 16 fine motor kits. Each photo container has a clasp that the students have to open, which helps with those fine motor skills.

Iris Photo Storage– Mine were found at Michael’s and I used a coupon, bonus!!

Many of the items below you can find at a craft store. But just in case you are not near one, here are some links to some of the supplies I used in my kits.

Nuts and Bolts- raided my garage

Pom Poms

Each photo case (16 of them) has a different activity in them. Students pull one out, take it to their desk and play with it. The great thing about “playing” with it is they are using their finger muscles.

Double Bonus!

Here is what they look like in their kits and how I organized them.