Free Bee Fine Motor Mat Printables
The free bee fine motor mats are great for a bee theme, bug theme or pollinator week. There are three mats for kids to use to work on fine motor skills.
You have a bee template worksheet, a bee tracing worksheet and a bee dot marker page. All are great for working on fine motor skills in different ways.
The fine motor mats are great for tot, preschool, prek, and kindergarten age kids.
The Bee Fine Motor Mat Printable is an excellent addition to the bug printables and fine motor printables on the site.
The Bee 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 bug 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.
Bee Fine Motor Mat Printables
The bee fine motor mats have 3 fine motor mats: a bee template, a bee tracing worksheet, and a bee dot marker page.
They are great for tot (ages 2 to 3), preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
Bee Template Printable
The bee template features just the bee on the page, accompanied by solid lines that are perfect for coloring or using as a torn paper template.
Bee Tracing Printable
The bee tracing lines has all the lines from the bee in tracing so kids can trace the lines and work on fine motor skills.
Bee Dot Marker Printable
The bee dot marker printable has circles all over the bee for kids to dot or use as fine motor mat.
Bee Book to use with the Bee Fine Motor Mats
You are read Bees (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 2). It has loads of information about bees that kids will just love. You can read the book to younger kids and older kids might be able to read the book on their own.
Things to use with the Bee Fine Motor Printables
- printer
- white copy paper
- colored paper
- colored pencils
- crayons
- dot marker
- dot markers
- pencil
- pencil grip – We love these!
- sheet protectors
- white cardstock
- dry erase markers
- clear counters
- yellow glass gems
- black glass gems
- clear glass gems
- paint tray
- washable paints
- cotton balls
Ways to Use the Bee Fine Motor Mats Printables
You are going to see different ways you can use the bee fine motor mats with kids. And remember these are just ideas.
Ways to Use the Bee Template Printable
You will see two ways we have used the bee template worksheet with kids.
Color the Bee Template Worksheet
You can use the bee template as a coloring page for kids. You can have the color the bee with yellow, black and use a light blue or other color for the wings. A great fine to work on fine motor color with coloring.
You can use crayons or markers for the coloring the bee.
Make a Torn Paper Bee Craft
You can use the Bee as a template for a torn paper bee craft. You can use them three colors of construction paper and have them tear and glue the construction paper on the bee.
You can see an example below of a bee that we did.
Ways to Use the Bee Tracing Printable
You will see a few ways we use the bee tracing worksheet with kids.
Set Up a Bee Fine Motor Tracing Center
You can see an example below of a fine motor tracing center using the bee tracing worksheet. You can give them a pencil or a pencil with a pencil grip.
You can see the pencil and pencil grip below. Some kinds need extra support and the pencil grips are great to use. You can trace the lines and then color the bee after you are done.
Reuse the Bee Fine Motor Tracing Worksheet
You can also reuse the bee fine motor tracing worksheet. You can laminate the page or put the page in a sheet protector.
Then you use dry erase markers to trace the lines. This is a great way to use the page over and over. or do the dry erase one time in a sheet protector and then trace with a pencil.
Ways to Use the Bee Dot Marker Printable
You are going to see a few ways we used the bee dot marker pages below.
Using Dot Markers on the Bee Dot Marker Printable
You can use dot markers on the bee dot marker page. You can use a yellow dot marker, black dot maker and a silver dot marker.
You can see how much fun it is to dot the bee.
If you don’t have dot markers you can always use washable paints and cotton balls in a clothespins to paint the bee.
Reuse the Bee Dot Marker Printable
You can also use the bee dot marker printable as a fine motor center before you dot it. You use glass gems on the circles.
You use yellow glass gems, black glass gems, and clear glass gems on the circles. You can see how it looks below.
What you will find in the Free Bee Fine Motor Mat Printables
- 1 Bee Templates
- 1 Bee Tracing Mats
- 1 Bee Dot Marker Mats
- 3 pages
Spring Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 13 fun spring fine motor mats together in a fun bundle.
What you will find in the Spring Fine Motor Mats Printable Set
- 13 Fine motor mats with a mix of templates, tracing, dot marker, q-tip and playdough mats.
- Spring Fine Motor Mats: Baseball, Earth, Easter Egg, Ladybug, Rainbow, Raindrop, Tree, Tulip, Dinosaur Egg, Kite, Cherry Blossom, Butterfly, Kite, Bee
- 81 pages
- Price: $4
More Bee & Bug Printables Printables for Kids
Bee No-Prep Weekly Packs are another set of no-prep weekly packs that are great for spring and summer. You have bee life cycle activities, with a mix of math and language. You have six grade levels pre, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.
Life Cycle Of A Bee has from egg to adult bee. You have the order events as they happen in a fun learning set for kids.
Bee Dot Marker Prewriting Printable has 12 strips for kids to dot for their prewriting. You can use them as prewriting strips or use them as a single page worksheet for kids. This is a great fine motor activity for kids in preschool and prek that are working up to prewriting lines.
Butterfly Fine Motor Mat Printables has 18 fine motor mats with a mix of tracing, templates, and dot markers with a butterfly theme.
Ladybug Fine Motor Mat Printables has 5 fine motor mats with a mix of tracing, templates, and dot markers with a ladybug theme.
Check out all the fun Bug & Insect Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
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