Fine Motor: Sorting Christmas Lights
One of the great themes of Christmas is the Christmas lights. My girl love looking at the lights. This was a fun change in the activities with the lights. We have been working on colors and fine motor. This was a great way to combined the two activities.
This makes such a great activity for kids. The lights are small and great for pincher grasps. Plus they get some great sensory input pushing the lights into the playdough. It works nicely for working on coloring sorting as well.
What you need for the Fine Motor Christmas Lights Sorting
- ceramic Christmas tree bulb
- small bin
- tray
- playdough
How we did the Fine Motor Christmas Lights Sorting
The small Christmas tree lights are small about 1 inch in size and they and you working on small fine motor to pick up and push in the playdough. It is also fun to push them into the playdough.
The color matching also gives them something to work on. The colors in the lights are: red, blue, green, orange, white, pink and purple.
You can change up this activity by rolling a die and have them put that many into the playdough. You can also do the same activity with removing the lights from the playdough.
Check out these other Christmas Activities:
- Christmas Cookie Cutter Painting
- Christmas Sound & Fine Motor Sensory Bin
- Hands On Gem Patterns
- Fingerprint Wreath
Check out all the fun Christmas Printables & Christmas Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
I love this! I don’t have the ceramic Christmas tree lightbulbs, but I do have lots of colorful small light bulbs from an old lite brite set. I’m going to pull them out and use them in the classroom next week! Thank you for the great idea.
The light brite pegs would be great to do this activity with!
Such a cute idea! We used to do this with the lights from my Grandma’s ceramic tree, but we never used the playdough, just sorted them in colors.
It has been fun. I think my older girls have done this as well.