Free Placemat Fine Motor Printables
The fine motor placemat printables are great for learning about place settings in a fun way. But they are flexible in how you use them.
The free placemat fine motor printables are flexible with three different placemats. You have a placemat template printable, a placemat tracing printable, and a placemat q-tip printable.
Each is a great way to work on fine motor skills during holidays or use it during a dinner to keep kids entertained.
The Placemat Fine Motor Mat Printables is a great addition to the fine motor mat printables and thanksgiving 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.
Placemat Fine Motor Mat Printables
The placemat fine motor printables have a placemat template printable, a placemat tracing printable, and a placemat q-tip printable. All great for any holiday or learning about place settings with kids.
Placemat Template Printable
The placemat template is great for coloring or using with kids to learn about placemats. You can use this mat for any season or holiday.
Placemat Tracing Printable
The placemat tracing printable has tracing the outline of the fork, plate, knife and spoon. A great fine motor activity with a place setting.
Placemat Q-Tip Printable
the Placemat q-tip or cotton swab printable has the place mat with little circles all over the fork, plate, knife and spoon. A great fine motor painting activity for kids.
Things to use with the Placemat Fine Motor Printables
- printer
- white copy paper
- colored paper
- colored pencils
- crayons
- dot marker
- markers
- pencil
- pencil grips – We love these!
- sheet protectors
- white cardstock
- dry erase markers
- playdough
- clear counters
- mini dot markers
- paint tray
- washable paints
- q-tip
Ways to Use the Placemat Fine Motor Mats Printables
Ways to Use the Placemat Template Printable
You will see a few ways to use the placemat template with kids.
Color the Placemat Template
This placemat is great because you can use it so many ways. But you can color or decorate the placemat any way that you want.
You can see below how we colored the placemat template. And you can change this for any holiday or season.
Other creative ways to use the Placemat Template
Here are some other creative ways to use this placemat template.
– Use the placemat with learning about the different food groups
– Learn about the amount of food you should be eating
– Draw their favorite foods to eat
– Learn how to set the table with a fork, plate, knife and spoon
– A coloring page you can use during holidays
Ways to Use the Placemat Tracing Printable
You will see below some ideas on how to use the fine motor tracing placemat.
Set up a Fine Motor Tracing Center
You can se up a fine motor tracing center with the place mats. You can give them a pencil to trace the fork, plate, knife and spoon.
If kids have issues holding a pencil give them a pencil grip to help hold the pencil better.
Trace the Placemat with Markers or Crayons
You can use markers or crayons to trace the placemat. You can do it all in one color or let kids decide how they want to trace the placemat.
This is a great way for them to be creative.
You can always have them trace the place mat in pencil before using the marker or crayons to kids more fine motor in as well.
Reuse the Place Mat Tracing Printable
You can also use use this placemat tracing printable. You can laminate or put the page in a sheet protector and then have them trace with a dry erase marker. A great way to reuse in a fine motor center.
You can always start with in a sheet protector and then later give them the paper to do with a pencil or markers.
Ways to Use the Placemat Q-tip Marker Printable
You will see a few suggestion on how to use this q-tip placemat.
Use Paints and Q-tips to Paint the Placemat
You can use q-tip and washable paints to paint all of the small circles. You can put the paint in a paint tray to keep the colors from getting together on use a paper plate.
You can give them all the colors they want to paint. You could let them have fun and make this a creative painting.
Use Mini Dot markers on the Cotton Swab Placemat
Another idea for the q-tip placemat is to use mini dot markers on the place mat.
They come in two set of mini dot markers. You have a dot marker mini with black, pink, red, yellow, green and blue and the other mini dot marker set comes in lavender, sea foam, coral, lemon, magenta, and cinnamon brown.
What you will find in the Free Placemat Fine Motor Mat Printables
- 1 Placemat Templates
- 1 Placemat Tracing Mats
- 1 Placemat Q-Tip Mat
- 3 pages
Fall Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 15 fun fall fine motor mats together in a fun bundle. Easy to use and great to use all season.
What you will find in the Fall Fine Motor Mats Printable Set
- 15 Fine motor mats with a mix of templates, tracing, dot marker, q-tip and playdough mats.
- Fall Fine Motor Mats: Apple, Football, Leaf, Pencil, Pumpkin, Spider Web, Poppy, Turkey, Pirate Flag, Candy Corn, Rocket Ship, Witch Hat, Placemat, Apple Tree, Fire Hydrant
- 70 pages
- Price: $4
More Dish and Placemat Printables for Kids
Dishes Pack is great for Thanksgiving. Learn the names of all the dishes you use. You are going to find printables for tot, preschool, prek, and kindergarten.
There are 3 fun Thanksgiving Place Mats for entertaining the kids on Thanksgiving. You have different activities on each of the place mats.
Transportation Placemats are great for kids who love cars and trucks. A fun way to keep kids entertained. You have three placemats to use.
Ocean Themed Placemats are great for kids who love the ocean with three mats to use.
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