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    You are here: Home / Play / Motor Skills / Fine Motor Skills Practice With Acorns

     

    Fine Motor Skills Practice With Acorns

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    5 ideas for Fall Fine Motor Fun!
    On our way home from school yesterday Kiddo and New Kid spotted a treasure trove of nature's finest manipulative: acorns. Perfect for fine motor skills practice!

    Fine Motor Skills Practice with Acorns

    We brought them home and of course the first thing we had to do was wash them. They were collected from an urban sidewalk afterall and we have all kinds of nature in the city.

    Washing them proved to be very entertaining for New Kid and he spent lots of time swishing them around in a tub of water, spooning them out and making up stories about tugboats.

    Fine Motor Skills Practice with Acorns

    Next he sorted them into an ice cube tray.

    Fine Motor Skills Practice with Acorns

    He giggled as he aimed them into a muffin tin through a cardboard roll.

    Fine Motor Skills Practice with Acorns

    He poked them through holes cut into the top of a yogurt container (you may recognize that container from a certain pom pom activity we've done in the past).

    Fine Motor Skills Practice with Acorns

    But I think his favorite way to play was running an acorn delivery service for the neighborhood squirrels.

    Acorns. Who knew?

    Kids can work on fine motor skills with acorns in the fall.

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    1. Tim, Allyson, and kids says

      October 05, 2012 at 1:34 am

      Wow! We definitely need to go outside and store some away before the squirrels take them all 🙂

      I'd love for you to link up to our Finished Friday blog party.

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      • Momand Kiddo says

        October 05, 2012 at 9:01 am

        While we were gathering these a squirrel up in the tree dropped a few on our heads.

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    2. Anu Ganesh says

      October 07, 2012 at 3:09 pm

      Very nice fine motor activities indeed!!!

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    3. Scribble Doodle and Draw says

      October 14, 2012 at 4:41 am

      What a great way to use nature to build up fine motor skills. I've featured your post on my blog. Thanks for sharing.

      Reply
    4. Shaunna (@Shaunna_FFL) says

      September 14, 2013 at 8:14 pm

      My girls would love washing the acorns, too. And the acorn delivery services was very creative! Thanks for sharing this post at the Discover & Explore linky.

      Reply
    5. Sharon@DiscoverExploreLearn says

      September 20, 2013 at 7:46 am

      It always makes me happy when I see kids using items found in nature to explore and create. I love the 'acorn delivery service.' That is something my boys would do for sure. Thanks for sharing.

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    6. Laura M says

      October 14, 2013 at 7:52 am

      Love the acorn delivery! These are all fun ideas!

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      • Erica MomandKiddo says

        October 14, 2013 at 8:19 am

        Thanks, Laura. Who knew acorns could be so much fun?

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    7. Alecia says

      September 27, 2015 at 8:44 pm

      I love all of the ideas, and I cannot wait to try them out with my three and four year old this week...I Think they will especially love the idea of putting them in the cars and trucks as a delivery service.

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      • Erica MomandKiddo says

        September 28, 2015 at 8:41 am

        Wonderful! Have fun with it.

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