Spring Fine Motor Math Mats for Kindergarten and a Geoboard Freebie

Fine motor activities are the perfect way to engage your students with interactive and educational activities. As a teacher we are always looking for fun and hands on ways to enhance your kindergarten students' fine motor skills and it's a bonus when you can also incorporate math.

Spring Fine Motor Activities

Pattern Block Mats

Spring Pattern Blocks are an excellent tool for developing fine motor skills and teaching math concepts such as shapes, symmetry, and fractions. In this activity, children can use pattern blocks to create pictures and included are different ability levels. 

Students can build the pictures, identify the shapes and count how many of each  shape is used in the picture.  A great way to incorporate math and fine motor activities.  

Also included are small easy to store task cards that work well for morning work  or early finishers. 

And also a design your own version, which can challenge your students and beneficial to your visual spacial leaners. 

I love these more opened ended tasks which are so great for differentiation.   Students are able to come up with so many different ways to make the same picture. 

Snap Cube Activities

Spring Snap Cube Activities are another hands on and engaging resource for teaching math concepts and developing fine motor skills in your classroom. In this activity, children can create different pictures using snap cubes, sort by color and count how many of each color.  

This does require counting up to 20 and is a great way to reinforce that kindergarten standard.  

You will also fine simple to build mats that are to scale for students and a great fine motor activity and does not involve counting. 

As well as small task cards and can really challenge students and are great to help develop visual spacial awareness. These are small and easy to store and a great activity to keep for morning bins or early finishers. 

Geoboard Activities

Spring Geoboards are also a great tool for developing fine motor skills and teaching math concepts such as symmetry, shapes, and patterns. In this activity, children can use geoboards to create different spring shapes like  butterflies, flowers, and and birdhouses. 

As an extension activity, students to practice identifying shapes they may see in a picture and record on the mats. 

Each picture includes both and simple and more difficult version with 10 different pictures included. 

The small geoboard task cards are included as a freebie at the end of this blog post. 

Spring Building Brick Activities 

Spring Building Bricks are another fun and engaging fine motor activities to use in your classroom.  Your students will love using Legos or other building bricks to create spring themed pictures such as rainbows, ladybugs, butterflies and bird houses.  

Included are 10 different spring themed pictures with both small easy to store task cards

as well as large to scale cards where students can simply build on the mat

You can all of these activities in Spring Fine Motor Bundle which includes a variety of templates for Snap Cubes, Pattern Blocks, Building Bricks, Geoboard Boards, and Pom Poms at a 40% discount.  Each set contains 10 different spring themed picture for your students to create.  

You can fine the Free Spring Geoboard Task Cards here