July and Summer Fine Motor Activities

Use these fun and engaging summer themed, beach theme and ocean theme fine motor activities for your July fine motor bins, task boxes, centers, or in your summer theme morning work stations. The fine motor strengthening activities will help your kids in preschool, pre-k or kindergarten. special education or occupational therapy classrooms build fine motor skills, build hand strength, and develop scissor skills during the month of July and beyond.

From hole punch fine motor skills activities, cutting skills activities, tracing activities, to playdough activities, the printable July fine motor activities are perfect for your ocean theme, ocean animal theme, beach theme, or cookout theme units and lesson plans.

*Please note that this is a digital product.  You will be able to download the PDF file upon your purchase.  Nothing will be shipped to you.  Due to the nature of digital downloads, your purchase is not refundable.*

This resource is part of the Monthly Fine Motor Activity Bundle.  If you purchase the money-saving bundle, you do not need to purchase this resource.

SAVE TIME! - These July and summer-themed fine motor skills activities are easy to prep.

VERSATILE! Use for:

• End of the year parties
• Countdown to summer activities
• Fun summer packet
• Beach day activities
• Summer themed or beach craft project or for door decor
• Supplement your beach theme ocean theme, summer theme, or cookout theme units and lesson plans

EASY TO DIFFERENTIATE! - Many opportunities to adapt for different levels of learners.

KEEPS KIDS ENGAGED! These July fine motor development activities and ideas are fun and motivating activities for your preschooler and kindergartener.

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE JULY FINE MOTOR SET:

Hole Punch & Cut Strips

• 7 July and summer-themed hole punch and cut strips
• Build hand strength and fine motor control by using a hole punch on each section
• Provide fine motor practice and let practice scissor skills by cutting the images apart

Fold & Cut Activities

• Use scissors to cut on the line and unfold to paper to reveal the image with these fun beach and ocean themed fine motor activities
• 3 images - a palm tree, a starfish, and a sun
• Use this activity to build scissor skills. Use for a beach craft project or add to summer cutting task boxes

Cut & Paste Activities

• Kids can practice scissor skills by cutting pictures and pasting them on the page.
• Kids can build hand strength and control by using a bottle of glue or glue stick
• 2 beach or ocean-themed images (animals in the ocean and sand pails in the sand.)

Paper Tearing Activity Pages

• Help kids build hand strength in their little hands and develop hand-eye coordination by tearing construction paper or cardstock paper
• 12 full-page images with thick dark lines
• Images in this fun fine motor activity include a sea turtle, shark, shell, beach ball, sailboat, palm tree, sand pail, flip-flops, hamburger, sun, sand castle, beach umbrella
• Kids tear colored paper and glue it to the images for a fun fine motor craft project
• Additional ideas for the pages: Use as a beach theme, ocean theme, or summer theme coloring pages. You can also use the pages with stickers or for a beach craft

Pre-writing Pages

• 3 pages of printable leveled fine motor tracing activities (from straight lines to more complex lines)
• Build important handwriting skills like hand strength, pencil control, and finger control in a fun way.
• 1 connect the images activity page
• Black & white worksheets and full-color pages are included
• You can use these in your student's fine motor journals

Playdough Mats

• Use these fine motor mats as a fun fine motor activity to help your preschoolers build hand strength and for sensory & counting activities
• 4 Summer-themed playdough Mats in 2 sizes
• Small mats fit in a pencil box
• Large playdough mats are full pages
• Includes 0-20 number cards
• Use with playdough or other counters ( pom poms , mini-erasers, etc.)

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