Description

Looking for Fine Motor Activities that help students practice tracing, cutting, drawing, prewriting, and coloring skills? This August Fine Motor Journal unit is packed with activities that make it easy to support fine motor development all month long.

Get This Resource As Part Of A Bundle:

• Fine Motor Activities Bundle

What’s Included Each Month:

The August theme includes all things back to school, like crayons, pencils, notebooks. and buses.

• Fine Motor Journal Cover Pages — 2 options:
  Use these cover pages to create your own Fine Motor Journals. Staple the printables together with a cover, or shrink the cover page when printing and glue it to the front of a notebook.

• No-Prep Fine Motor Printables — 12 pages:
  These print-and-go fine motor pages help students practice tracing, coloring, drawing, prewriting, and cutting skills. Each page is designed to support fine motor development with engaging, easy-to-use activities.

• Fine Motor Doodle Printables — 12 pages:
  These no-prep doodle pages give students meaningful tracing practice to help build pencil control and fine motor strength. Each page includes a variety of lines, swirls, shapes, pictures, and patterns for engaging fine motor practice.

• Fine Motor Notebook Activities — 12 pages:
  These interactive notebook-style printables are designed to be practiced, cut, and glued into a notebook or Fine Motor Journal. Students complete the activity on the printable, glue it into their journal, and then continue practicing the skill on the rest of the notebook page.

Practice Activities Include:

• Tracing lines
• Prewriting strokes
• Coloring skills
• Cutting practice
• Drawing practice
• Symmetry practice
• Shape activities
• And so much more!

Perfect For Preschool & Kindergarten:

• Fine motor journals
• Morning work
• Back-to-school centers
• Early finishers
• Small groups
• Independent work bins
• Intervention groups
• Scissor skill practice
• Monthly fine motor routines
• Occupational therapy support

Skills Practiced

• Fine motor control
• Pencil grip and pencil control
• Tracing lines and shapes
• Cutting on lines
• Cutting around shapes and pictures
• Coloring with control
• Drawing simple pictures
• Prewriting strokes
• Left-to-right directionality
• Hand-eye coordination
• Visual motor integration
• Following simple directions

Why Teachers Love It

This resource is designed to be flexible and easy to use. Print individual pages for quick no-prep practice, use the doodle pages for tracing and pencil control, or combine the activities into August Fine Motor Journals for a structured monthly routine.

Students get meaningful practice with important early learning skills while working on engaging back-to-school activities. Teachers get a simple, low-prep way to support fine motor development without needing extra materials or complicated directions.

Get Started Today!

Add these August Fine Motor Journal activities to your back-to-school routine for simple, engaging practice that helps students build confidence with tracing, cutting, drawing, coloring, and prewriting skills.

Print and use as individual activities, morning work, centers, or bind them together to create easy monthly Fine Motor Journals your students can use all August long!

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Jennifer Kadar – Simply Kinder – Kindergarten – First Grade – Preschool
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