Free Football Fine Motor Mats
A football is a great theme for any football game, and these free football fine motor mats are loads of fun for kids. And great to work with different types of fine motor skills.
You can work on coloring, tracing, hands-on fine motor, and more. All while doing a football theme and fine motor skills.
You will find 4 football fine motor mats: football tracing, football template mat, and football dot markers.
The Football Fine Motor Mats is a great addition to the football printables on the site.
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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.
Football Fine Motor Printables
You have four football fine motor mats. You have a football tracing mat, a football template mat, and football dot marker mats.
Football Fine Motor Template Printable
The football template is great for coloring, torn paper football crafts, and a playdough mat if you want.
Football Fine Motor Tracing Printable
You have a football tracing worksheet. It has the football for kids to trace. Each part of the football is there for them to trace.
Football Fine Motor Dot Marker Printables
You have two dot marker mats. You have a a dot marker outline of the football and dots that fill in the football. Both a great football dot marker printables for kids.
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Football Books to Read with the Football Fine Motor Printables
We love the Gail Gibbons book and she has a great one for football. I ths call My Football Book. You can learn more about football and how it is played.
Things to use with the Football Fine Motor Printables
- printer
- white copy paper
- colored pencils
- crayons
- dot marker
- markers
- pencil
- pencil grips – We love these!
- sheet protectors
- white cardstock
- dry erase markers
- playdough
- clear counters
- brown construction paper
- golden glitter paper
- brown glass gems
- My Football Book by Gail Gibbons
Ways to Use the Football Fine Motor Mats Printables
You are going to see a few ways to use these football fine motor printables. And these are not the only ways ot use them.
Color the Football
You can use the football template as a coloring page. You can just color the picture any way you want. You could use markers, finger page or crayons. You can see crayons below.
Football Torn Paper Craft
You can use the football template for a football torn paper craft. You can use white construction paper for the grip and strips and brown construction paper for the rest of the football.
You get the fine motor for tearing the paper and gluing the paper on the football.
Trace the Football
You can use the football tracing template as a fine motor center for kids. You can use a pencil, a crayon or a marker. You can see a marker tracing below.
Reuse the Football Fine Motor Tracing Printable
You can reuse the football tracing printable. You can see below we printed the page off and put it in a sheet protector. Then use a brown dry erase marker to trace the football. And after you trace, you wipe it off and trace it again. A great way to reuse the football tracing worksheet.
Dot Marker the Football
The dot marker football is great for using dot marker on. You can use the brown or have fun and use your favorite teams colors on the football.
Using the dot marker is great for fine motor control to dot all the circles on the football.
Punch and Paste the Circles on the Football
You can also use a circle punch to punch out circles and then glue the punches on the circles. It is great for fine motor for using the punch and gluing the circles in place on the football.
You can use brown construction paper. We happen to have this golden glitter paper that was fun as well.
Use Glass Gems on the Football
You can also use brown glass gems on the dot marker football. You can get a bag with lot of the gems and place them on each of the circles. The glass gems are great for fine motor work.
What you will find in the Free Football Fine Motor Printables
- 1 Football Templates
- 1 Football Tracing Mats
- 2 Football Dot Marker Mat
- 4 pages
More Football Printables for Kids
Football Activity Pack: Prewriting, ABCs, Numbers & Shapes is a great set of printables that work on different activities with the same theme. You will find no-prep pages, easy reader books, clip cards, and tracing strips with 189 pages of printables.
No-Prep Football Weekly Packs – You have 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day. You have a mix of math and language for kids to use. You have prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.
Football Number Dot Marker & Counting is a fun way to work on numbers 0 to 20. You dot marker the number and then count the dots on the football.
Football Shape Matching Puzzles are fun 2 piece puzzles for kids to match. You have to shapes on the football to match with 12 shapes to match.
Check out all the fun Football Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com