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Cotton Swabs Snowflakes Winter Activity for Kids Fine Motor Skills Montessori Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

Oct 16, 2021 ·

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Give children a fun winter activity for kids to keep them entertained and busy. Check out this easy snowflakes made with cotton swabs preschool activity.

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Cotton Swabs Snowflakes Winter Activity for Kids Fine Motor Skills Montessori Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

Fine motor skills should be exercised with children from an early age because it helps children develop other associated skills as they grow. At home, there are different things that children can carry out daily to develop these skills and, at the same time, awaken their interest in household tasks.

Usually, these activities require great precision, allowing them to improve their concentration, attention, and patience. These skills are of great importance to children's growth as they become involved in society.

When children perform fine motor activities, they strengthen their hands, wrist, and arm muscles. Thus, developing eye-hand coordination will help them improve their writing from a very young age. Additionally, it has been shown that hand movements provide significant benefits for the development of intelligence when doing this kind of task.

It is highly recommended to have an environment prepared for children at home where they can choose the activity they want to do at any time of the day. Having different options, children can logically manipulate real objects, which contributes to strong personality progress.

Fun snowflakes activity for preschoolers

THEME: WINTER ACTIVITY FOR KIDS

HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?

Topic: Fine motor skills

Christmas Crafts for Kids

Age: 4-6-year-old children

Goal: Stimulate and strengthen children's hand, wrist, and arm muscles and fine motor skills.

Difficulty level: Advanced. This winter activity for kids is designed to be done autonomously with an adult's surveillance

Skills:

  • Hand-eye coordination
  • Accuracy in hand and finger movements
  • Following instructions
  • Visual discrimination
  • Focus
  • Autonomy
  • Independence
  • Self-esteem
  • Patience

MATERIALS

Materials Snowflakes Made With Cotton Swabs Activity. Fun winter activity for kids
  • A tray
  • Squared cards with lines patterns previously drawn
  • Swabs

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

Step 1:

Take a swab to do the first step of the sequence. Put it vertically.

do the first step of the sequence

 Step 2:

Take a second swab to do the figure on the second card in the sequence. Put the swab diagonal to the left.

Take a second swab to do the figure. winter activity for kids

Step 3:

In this way, take the other swabs and continue with all the images to the last card.

place the other swabs

ACTIVITY RESULT

A snowflake made with swabs. Fun winter activity for kids.

snowflake made with swabs

FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS

For more winter activity for kids give them cool worksheets. Click the link below to download and print our worksheets.

Free printable preschool worksheets

Download the Free Printable Preschool Worksheets

HOW TO CARRY OUT THIS WINTER ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD

Christmas Snowflake Crafts for Toddlers

Younger children can do this winter activity for kids. Children under age four are developing their pincer grip and eye-manual coordination, so placing together the swabs could become an activity with a very high level of difficulty. This motor activity can be done with Play-Doh to control the sticks' movement better when forming the patterns.

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OLDER THAN 6

This winter activity can be done with older children.It is unnecessary to change the materials. Children can even draw the sequence themselves on the cards at this age and can also cut out the cardboard or paper. Additionally, you can teach children what a snowflake is and how it is formed in nature through videos or real images. The preschool activity will have a higher degree of difficulty, and the exercise will be according to the children's needs.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION - SNOWFLAKE MADE WITH COTTON SWABS WINTER ACTIVITY FOR KIDS

This winter activity for kids video presents a detailed explanation of the "SNOWFLAKE MADE WITH COTTON SWABS" activity, designed for 4-6-year-old children.

The children will follow a sequence with swabs to form a snowflake. Skills children will develop with this motor activity are hand-eye coordination, accuracy in hand and finger movements, following instructions, visual discrimination, focus, autonomy, independence, and self-esteem. To do it, they will need a tray, squared cards with patterns previously drawn, and swabs.

Activities for Kids

Do you like this New Year Winter Activity for Preschoolers? Make sure to check out our other activities

  • Kids will love the Count the Snowflakes Math Game Numbers for Kids Montessori Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)
  • Do this cool activity with kids, check out Free Snowflake Easy Winter Art for Kids Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)
  • Stimulate kids' mind and creativity with the Snowflake Handcraft Winter Easy Craft for Kids Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)
  • Kids will enjoy doing the Fireworks Colors Easy Art Activity for Kids Montessori Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

Get super adorable clothes for kids, check out this snowman doll Merry Christmas toddler t-shirt.

I'd like to know what you think of our winter activity for kids. Please leave a comment below.

Super easy fun activity for preschoolers. Snowflakes winter activity for kids.
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