Free Penguin Fine Motor Mats
Penguins are a great polar animal theme for kids. They are so much fun to learn about.
And this penguin fine motor mat is a great one for kids to fine motor work with the theme.
You have a penguin template printable, a penguin tracing worksheet, and a penguin dot marker printable. These are all fun ways to add fine motor for the winter.
The Penguin Fine Motor Mat Printables is a great addition to the polar animal printables and fine motor mats on the site.
The Penguin 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 polar animals 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.
Penguin Fine Motor Mat Printables
The penguin fine motor mat printables have 3 printables for kids to use. You have a penguin template printable, a penguin tracing printable, and a penguin dot marker printable.
Each penguin fine motor printable allows you to work on different fine motor skills.
Penguin Template Printable
You have a penguin template. It has the whole body for kids to use. You have the black and whites with the face and flippers.
Penguin Tracing Printable
The penguin tracing worksheet has all the lines of the penguin with dot lines for kids to trace.
Penguin Dot Marker Printable
The penguin dot marker page has an outline of the penguin with dots filling in the space of the penguin shape.
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Penguin Books to Read with the Fine Motor Mats
Penguins by Gail Gibbons is a favorite book for us. She always has great information in all her books about each subject and this penguin book is just perfect for that.
All About Penguins: Discover Life on Land and in the Sea is a great book to read all about penguins and their life. You can see the land side and the sea side as well.
Safari Readers: Penguins has amazing real pictures of penguins for kids to see. Plus is a great good to learn about penguins as well.
Things to use with the Penguin 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
- black glass gems
Ways to Use the Penguin Fine Motor Mats Printables
You can see a few ways to use the fine motor mats.
Ways to Use the Penguin Template Printable
You can see some ideas for the penguin template here.
Color the Penguin Template
You can use the penguin template for a coloring worksheet. Kids can color the different parts of the penguin.
You can use markers, crayons or colored pencils for the coloring. But watercolors would also be fun.
Make Torn Paper Penguin
You can use a torn paper penguin with penguin template page. You can use construction paper that you tear and glue on the penguin.
It is an easy fine motor craft you can do for a penguin theme.
Ways to Use the Penguin Tracing Printable
Here are a few ways to use the penguin tracing page.
Setting Up a Fine Motor Tracing Center
You can use the penguin tracing printable in a fine motor center. You can use lots of things to trace the penguin.
One way is to start with pencil and then have them trace a second time with something else like markers or crayons.
If you have someone who struggles holding a pencil use a pencil grip to help.
Trace the Penguin with Markers
You can trace the penguin with markers or crayons. You can use the color that makes the area to trace the penguin.
You can use markers or fine line markers for the tracing. You can see fine line markers below.
Reuse the Penguin Fine Motor Tracing Printable
This is also a great fine motor printable to reuse. You can laminate the page or put in a sheet protector.
Then you have kids use dry erase markers to trace the penguin over and over.
Ways to Use the Penguin Dot Marker Printable
You will see some suggestion for the penguin dot marker page.
Using Dot Markers on the Penguin Dot Marker Printables
You can use dot markers on the penguin. You can see we use a black dot marker and filled in all the dots. This is a great way to work on fine skills.
You could also do an orange dot marker for the feet and the beak if you wanted.
Using Glass Gems on the Penguin Dot Marker Page
If you want to use the page more than one time you can use black glass gems to fill the penguin.
You can just have them place the dots or you can make it a game by give them a die and have them roll a number and fill in that many circles at a time.
What you will find in the Free Penguin Fine Motor Mat Printables
- 1 Penguin Templates
- 1 Penguin Tracing Mats
- 1 Penguin Dot Marker Mats
- 3 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.
- 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 Polar Animal Printables for Kids
Penguin Weekly No-Prep Packs has 6 grade level options with PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. You have 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day.
Penguin Watercolor Painting is a very easy painting activity that kids can do. This is a great cookie cutter painting for kids.
Penguin Activities Pack is great for kids working on prewriting, ABCs, numbers and shapes. You have clip cards, easy reader books, tracing strips and no-prep worksheets.
Penguin ABC Letter Find is a great way to work on letters during the winter! You have uppercase and lowercase options. You have trace the letters and find the letters on the penguins. This is a great kindergarten worksheet.
The Penguin ABC Matching Printable is a great way to work in initial sound for kids! You can match pictures and letters.
Penguin Counting Mat Printables – Numbers 1 to 10 has a counting mat for each number that work great with one to one correspondence. And can be used with fun penguin counters.
Check out all the fun Polar Animal activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com