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Find The Jingle Bells

November 22, 2016 By Emma Vanstone 2 Comments

ELF STEM Lost Jingle Bells

This easy fine motor, sensory activity is super simple to set up and has a lovely Christmassy feel to it.

Christmas fine motor skill idea. Help the elves find their lost jingle bells!

Christmas themed fine motor skill activity

What you need

Shaving foam

Little bells

Tweezers – these chunky tweezers from Learning Resources are our favourites

Tray

Glitter – optional

Instructions

Fill the tray with shaving foam.

Sprinkle with glitter

Add the bells

Extension Tasks

Use the tweezers to remove the bells without touching them.

Sort the bells by size or colour.

Count the number of bells or lay them out in an array.

Can you draw a graph showing how many of each colour bell you have?

More fine motor skills ideas

We have lots more science themed fine motor skill activity ideas here.

Why should children practice fine motor skills?

Did you know there are over 30 muscles in the hand and forearm? These muscles control elbow, wrist and finger movements while the much smaller muscles in the palm of the hand control smaller movements of the thumb and fingers.

If hand and forearm muscles develop slowly or aren’t strong enough children can find it very difficult to grip and manipulate small objects which can make learning to write a harder task.

Easy Christmas themed fine motor activity for kids. Use tweezers to rescue Christmas bells from sensory snow #Christmas #SensoryActivities #ElfActivities
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  1. Tricia Taylor

    December 6, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    What a great idea for little hands 😉 thanks so much for the giveaway it will see help out this year especially!! Merry Christmas

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