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You are here: Home / Activities / Holidays / St. Patrick’s Day Fine Motor Activities

St. Patrick’s Day Fine Motor Activities

March 11, 2013 By Seemi

We have rainbows in the class, but St. Patrick’s Day won’t be complete without a little green!

St Patricks Day Montessori Fine Motor Activities for March

Here’s our fine motor shelf for March

March Fine Motor Shelf -St Patrick's Day- Trillium Montessori

Pouring

On the very top are our pouring activities, in various shades of green.

Leprechaun hat pouring activity- Trillium Montessori

The mini leprechaun hats are from the Dollar Store and the trays are from Montessori Services (affiliate link).

   Pouring Green Water Trillium Montessori

Pouring 1:2 Trillium Montessori

Squeezing

The middle shelf holds our squeezing activities.  All of these require the child to use his hand muscles in a squeezing motion.

Roll and Transfer- Trillium Montessori

Roll the dice and transfer the pom poms from one crate to the other with the green clip. (sorry about the washed out image… I don’t know what happened there!)

Roll and transfer pom poms- Trillium Montessori

Counting the dots on the dice! (The child next to him is doing our banana slicing work)

Tweezing Pom poms Trillium Montessori

Using tweezers to transfer pompoms and sort them into mini green mugs.


Shamrock balancing- Trillium Montessori

Shamrock balancing.  Line up the little cubes, then use the mini clip to pick up the shamrocks and balance them on the cubes. You can find these mini erasers at the party store.

Balancing Shamrocks- Trillium Montessori

This is not easy!  You have to squeeze with just the right amount of pressure and rotate your wrists carefully to get the shamrock to balance.

Balancing Shamrocks Trillium Montessori

She decided to line them up along the top of the table.

Baster Transfer Trillium Montessori

Using a baster to transfer green water into a fun green ice tray from Ikea.

baster transfer- Trillium Montessori

Spooning

The purpose of the spooning activities is for the child to focus on hand movements that involve wrist rotations.

Roll and Transfer- Spooning- Trillium Montessori

More sparkly balls!  Also, can you tell I’m loving the roll-and-transfer activities with the dice these days? (The silver tray is from the Dollar Store)

Sifting with slotted spoon- Trillium Montessori

There are six little green beads (treasures) hidden in the sand and you have to use the slotted spatula to dig them out.  The challenge is to keep all the sand in the dish!  I love how activities like this really tap in to the young child’s fascination with tiny objects. The spatula was a thrift store find.

Sifting with slotted spatula- Trillium Montessori

PS – they also like the sound of the words “slotted spatula” 🙂

And A Few Counting Activities…

Shamrock Counting- Trillium MontessoriI found these number cards at Learning and Teaching with Preschoolers

Count and Glue Shamrocks

Count and glue the shiny shamrocks.  We use a little nail polish bottle for glue.  I got the glue bottle idea from an intern who was getting her training from CGMS.

 


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Filed Under: Holidays, Practical Life Tagged With: Fine Motor, March, St. Patricks Day

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