Spring Fine Motor May Activities | Spring and May Morning Work Tubs

Engage your students, as they build fine motor skills with these 20 math and ELA May fine motor activities! Make the most out of fine motor tubs, May morning work, or spring kindergarten centers with these hands-on meaningful tasks!

This edition includes a total of 20 May fine motor activities for Spring, plus 2 bonus activities!

The themes for the May fine motor activities include: Spring, Insects and Flowers

1. Build the Butterfly (chain links | onset and rime)
2. CVC Bumblebees (chain links | CVC words)
3. Watering Can Vowels (chain links | middle sounds)
4. Beginning Sound Blooms (clothespins | beginning sounds)
5. Place the Petals (clothespins | beginning digraphs ch, sh, th, wh and ending digraphs ch, sh, th, ck)
6. Springtime Decodable Sentences (chain links | constructing sentences, recognizing sight words, decoding CVC, CCVC and CVCC words)
7. Kite Tail Blends (chain links | s blends)
8. Tracing Worm Trails (dry erase marker | prewriting lines)
9. Word Family Flowers (hole punch | word families)
10. See and Spot (pom poms | sight word recognition)
11. Popsicle Stick Pictures (popsicle sticks | sight word recognition)
12. Planting 10s or 5s (play dough | skip counting)
13. Kite Tail Patterns (linking cubes | AB, ABB, AAB and ABC patterns)
14. Colorful Butterflies (pony beads | sorting by attribute)
15. Build a Beehive (pattern blocks | 1:1 counting)
16. Counting Fireflies (play dough | number formation, 1:1 counting)
17. Snail Shapes (hole punch | 2D shapes)
18. Paper Clip Petals (paper clips | 1:1 counting)
19. Leapfrog Race (clothespins | addition and subtraction within 3)
20. Releasing Bugs (pom poms | subtraction within 10)
21. 10 Busy Bees (pom poms | decomposing 10)
22. Stretchy Spring (geoboards and bands | composing shapes)

Prep once and use all month! The spring fine motor activities for May use common classroom manipulatives, including:

• Hole Punchers
• Pattern Blocks
• Play Dough
• Clothespins
• Chain Links
• Pom Poms
• Snap Cubes / Linking Cubes
• Pony Beads
• Paper Clips
• Dry Erase Markers

If you like these May fine motor activities, you'll also enjoy these name builders and sight word builders, which build fine motor control and name/sight word recognition!

I hope you enjoy these spring fine motor activities for May morning tubs! 

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