17/04/2025
🌼 5 Easter Fine Motor Fun Activities! 🐰✂️
Keep little hands busy this holiday break with Easter-themed activities that build fine motor skills in playful and meaningful ways. Try these OT-approved ideas at home!
1. Easter Egg Sensory Hunt
💡How to do it: Fill each egg with a different textured item. Hide them around the house or garden. Let your child find and open each egg, describing how it feels! 🐰 Tip: Collecting them all in a small basket before opening them will add a little more waiting challenge and fun!
🖐️ Builds sensory processing and visual perceptual skills
2. Playdough Easter Shapes
💡How to do it: Flatten playdough and use cookie cutters (bunny, chick, egg) to make shapes. Add beads or buttons for decoration to work on precision.
🐰 Tip: Using a rolling pin to flatten the playdough will add a little more bilateral coordination challenge!
🖐️ Builds small muscle hand strength, grasp patterns, and coordination
3. Cut the Easter Grass
💡How to do it: Draw wavy or zigzag lines on the paper like tall grass. Encourage your child to cut along the lines, “trimming the grass” to find hidden bunnies or eggs underneath!
🐰 Tip: Start with thicker paper and wider borders or guidelines to make it easier to cut and control the motion
✂️ Targets scissor skills, bilateral coordination, and graded control
4. Bunny Tail Pom-Pom Transfers
💡How to do it: Use tweezers or tongs to transfer the pom-poms or cotton balls into containers.
🐰 Tip: Try timing it or using one hand to challenge coordination.
🖐️ Supports grasp patterns, hand strength, and hand-eye coordination
5. Cotton bud Egg Painting
💡How to do it: Dip cotton buds into paint and dab colourful patterns onto paper eggs (or real eggs!) Make polka dots, lines, or initials.
🐰 Tip: Use one cotton bud for each colour to promote working memory, waiting, and turn-taking skills
🎯 Encourages tripod grasp, precision, control, and bilateral and hand-eye coordination
