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Fine Motor Skills: Lacing

by Angela Thayer 8 Comments

Fine motor skills are the actions that are performed in the small muscles in the hands, fingers and wrists. Your child practices using fine motor skills when holding a pencil, using a pair of scissors or lacing their shoes. Fine motor skills develop through practice. Today’s fine motor skill is focused on lacing. This is a great activity for preschoolers and easy to create at home!

Fine Motor Skills on Lacing a Heart
Here’s what you’ll need:

*pieces of foam, cardboard, or sturdy paper

*yarn

*paper punch

*scissors

To prepare the activity, cut out some hearts. I just folded my piece of foam in half and cut out a half heart.

heartsNext take your paper punch and make holes around the heart. Heart LacingThen you add in your yarn or string. In order to help the yarn stay together and not fray, add a piece of tape to the first part of the yarn. That just helps your child out and eliminates frustration.Lacing Tape

This was tough at first for my oldest. After I showed him how to do it, he started to get the hang of it. We will be practicing this again! Another thing that he had to practice was figuring out which hole to put the yarn in.  T Lacing I made 3 varieties of hearts. The green one does not have many holes. The pink one has a moderate amount of holes. The yellow one is the hardest with many holes.

Lacing Hearts2

 

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Comments

  1. Susen says:
    February 7, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    I also did this when my sin was a preschooler and I used a shamrock for St Patricks day!

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    • Teaching Mama says:
      February 7, 2013 at 10:47 pm

      That is awesome! Good idea-I may have to try that in March! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Cheryl Gannaway says:
    February 8, 2013 at 4:28 am

    Thanks for the idea! I am going to do this with my son 🙂 I just cut out my hearts out of foam squares.

    Reply
    • Teaching Mama says:
      February 8, 2013 at 3:52 pm

      Great! I hope this will help your son! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Cassie @ 3 Dinosaurs says:
    February 16, 2013 at 12:54 pm

    Thanks for linking up to the Fine motor Challenge last week!

    Reply
  4. Kalpani says:
    January 18, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    I’m really love with these printables and going to do this with my younger son Dimithri. Thank u soooooo much.

    Reply

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  1. The Perfect Newborn Headband - Spoonful of Imagination says:
    February 13, 2013 at 1:12 pm

    […] love the Lace Hearts that Angela made for her boys to practice some fine motor skills!  This is such a great activity, […]

    Reply
  2. Motor Skills for Preschoolers | Teaching Mama says:
    May 19, 2013 at 2:28 am

    […] Lacing is another great skill to work on. It can be frustrating for your child at first, but with practice they will improve. […]

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