Free Mitten Fine Motor Mat Printables
Mittens are a huge part of winter and these fine motor mats are perfect for a winter fine motor center activity.
You have mitten templates, mitten tracing, and mitten dot marker printables.
Each of these is great for fine motor centers for kids in preschool, prek and kindergarten.
The Mitten Fine Motor Mat Printables are a great addition to the winter printables and fine motor mat printables on the site.
The Mitten Fine Motor Mat Printables are part of my subscriber library. You can subscribe to the newsletter and get access to the password there. You will find it in the winter section on the subscriber freebie page.
What are Fine Motor Skills?
Fine motor skills involve using the small muscles in your hands and wrists to make precise movements.
This can be tearing paper, playdough, pencil control, or coloring with a crayon.
Mitten Fine Motor Mat Printables
The mitten fine motor mat printables have three different types. You have mitten templates, mitten tracing, and a mitten dot marker printable.
Each is a great way to add fine motor activities for winter learning centers. These are great for kids in preschool (3 to 4), PreK (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
Mitten Template Printable
You have two mitten templates printables. You have just the mitten and then you have a mitten that has lines across to use for different colors.
Mitten Tracing Printable
the mitten template tracing worksheet has two version that match the mitten template. You have tracing lines for all the parts of the mitten. And it is a great for kids to use.
Mitten Dot Marker Printable
The mitten dot marker printable has the mitten like the template but has circles lining the mitten for kids to dot.
Things to use with the Mitten Fine Motor Printables
- printer
- white copy paper
- colored paper
- colored pencils
- crayons
- dot marker
- markers
- pencil
- pencil grips – We love these!
- sheet protectors
- white cardstock
- dry erase markers
- playdough
- clear counters
- mini dot markers
- paint tray
- washable paints
- q-tip
Ways to Use the Mitten Fine Motor Mats Printables
You will see a few ways to use the mitten fine motor mats.
Ways to Use the Mitten Template Printable
These are a few ways to use the mitten templates.
Color the Mitten Template
You can have fun coloring the mitten. You can use either mitten template and color with crayons or markers. Really any way you want to color will work great.
You can see we used the mitten with strips and colored it in a green and blue pattern.
Finger Paint the Mitten
You can also use finger paints and paint the mitten. This would go great on a paint tray with lots of color options for the finger paints.
Torn Paper Mitten Craft
You can also do a fine motor craft by making a torn paper mitten You can use any of the mitten templates.
You tear up small piece of paper and glue them on the mitten. We used construction paper for out torn paper craft.
Ways to Use the Mitten Tracing Printable
You will see a few suggestion on how to use the mitten tracing worksheet with ids.
Setting up a Fine Motor Center
You can use it in a fine motor center. You can see that we have the mitten and a pencil
with a pencil grip. Only use the pencil grip if you have someone who struggles.
You can use the pencil to trace the lines.
Tracing and Watercolor Painting Mitten
You can change things up and use a oil pastel to trace the lines of the mitten. Then you can use watercolors to paint the mitten.
This is a great way to get fine motor but check up from must tracing and coloring.
Reuse the Mitten Tracing Worksheet
You can also reuse the mitten tracing worksheet. You can laminate the page or put the page in a sheet protector and trace the lines over and over with dry erase markers.
This works great in small centers for kids to trace the mitten and lines.
Ways to Use the Mitten Dot Marker Printable
You will see a few ways to use the dot marker mitten.
Dot Marker the Mitten
You can use dot marker on the mitten dot marker worksheet. You can use any color you want.
They can dot all the dots on the mitten. They can use one color or a mix of colors.
We did a fun magenta dot marker mitten.
Reuse the Dot Marker the Mitten
Another great idea is to use the mitten for a fine motor center with glass gems. Kids can use the gems and place them on the mitten.
You can use one color of glass gems or several colors of glass gems.
You can see below we used light blue glass gems and dark blue glass gems.
What you will find in the Free Mitten Fine Motor Mat Printables
- 2 Mitten Templates
- 2 Mitten Tracing Mats
- 1 Mitten Dot Marker Mats
- 5 pages
Winter Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 16 fun winter fine motor mats together in a fun bundle. Easy to use and great to use all season.
What you will find in the Winter Fine Motor Mats Printable Set
- 16 Fine motor mats with a mix of templates, tracing, dot marker, q-tip and playdough mats.
- Fall Fine Motor Mats: Winter Fine Motor Mats include Basketball, Chinese Lantern, Christmas Tree, Clover, Fireworks, Gingerbread Man, Heart, Menorah, Moon – All the Phases of the Moon, Snowflake, Tooth, dreidel, Mitten, Hand, Penguin
- 101 pages
- Price: $4
More Winter Fine Motor Printables for Kids
Snowflake Fine Motor Printables has a snowflake template, snowflake tracing printables, and a snowflake dot marker printable. These are great for a winter fine motor center.
Snowman Shape Tracing Printable has 9 fun shapes for kids to work on tracing with a shape for the snowman’s head. It is a great no-prep shape printable for kids.
Watercolor Mitten Painting has kids painting colorful mittens with watercolor on the paper. This goes great with a winter them or a mitten theme for kids.
Phases of the Moon Fine Motor Mat Printables has all 8 phases of the moon. Each phases of the moon name is on the pages so you know the phase. You have a moon template, moon tracing, and moon dot marker for each phase. This is a great way to do fine motor activities while learning the phases of the moon.
Snowman Activity Pack for Prewriting, Shapes, ABCs, and Numbers is a great pack for working a set of activities with no-prep pages, clip cards, easy reader books and tracing strips.
Snowman, Snowflake & Mitten Dot the Number Count the Number has numbers from 0 to 20 with these fun winter themes. You have a color versions and a black and white version.
Check out all the fun Winter & Snow Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com