Free Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables
A great ship fine motor mats. The ship fine motor mats work for a sailing ship theme. They can be used for Thanksgiving, a pirate theme, or even a transportation theme.
You have a three ship fine motor mats with template, tracing page, and q-tip page. All great ways to work on different fine motor skills for kids.
These ship fine motor printable works great for kids in preschool, prek, and kindergarten.
The Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables is an excellent addition to the Thanksgiving printables, transportation printables and fine motor 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.
Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables
You have a fun tall ship with sails. The ship fine motor mats have a ship template, a ship tracing printable and a ship q-tip page. All of these are great to work on different types of fine motor skills for kids.
The ship fine motor printables are great for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
Ship Template Printable
The ship template just has the ship on the page with solid lines for coloring or a craft template for kids.
Ship Tracing Printable
The ship tracing worksheet has all the lines from the template just with dashed lines for tracing. A fun way to work on prewriting skills.
Ship Q-Tip Printable
The ship cotton swab page has small circles all over the ship the size to use q-tips to dot all the circles. A great challenge for fine motor skills for kids.
Ship Book to Read with the Ship Fine Motor mats
Since this is around Thanksgiving a fun book is If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. A great way to look at some of the history and challenges they had sailing across the ocean.
Things to use with the Ship Fine Motor Printables
- printer
- white copy paper
- colored paper
- colored pencils
- crayons
- markers
- dot markers
- pencil
- pencil grip – We love these!
- sheet protectors
- white cardstock
- dry erase markers
- playdough
- clear counters
- dot marker mini
- paint tray
- washable paints
- q-tip
Ways to Use the Ship Fine Motor Mats Printables
You will see a few ways to use the ship fine motor mats. And these are just ideas you might have more ideas.
Ways to Use the Ship Template Printable
Here are som ways you can use the ship template with kids.
Color the Ship Template Printable
You can use the ship template as a coloring page. You can have them color in water and sky. Then color the ship as well. You could do simple coloring for like the mayflower if you are doing thanksgiving.
Or you could use this for a Pirate ship coloring page.
Torn Paper Ship Template
You can use the ship template a torn paper craft template. You can print the page and the use construction paper to tear and glue on the ship.
Ways to Use the Ship Tracing Printable
You are going to see a few ways to use the ship tracing worksheet.
Set Up A Ship Tracing Center For Kids
You can set up a ship tracing center for kids. You can print the ship and then give kids a pencil to trace all the lines. If kids struggle to hold the pencil you can use a pencil grip to help. You can have them trace the lines with pencil first and then markers afterwards.
Trace The Ship with Crayons
You can trace all the ship lines with crayons. You can use different colors for the different parts of the ship. You can also color in the ship after you trace the lines or just trace the lines.
Reuse the Ship Tracing Page
You can also reuse the ship tracing page. You can put the ship in a sheet protector or laminate the page. Then you use dry erase markers to trace all the lines.
This is a great way to reuse the page in a fine motor learning center.
Ways to Use the Ship Q-Tip Printable
You will see some suggestions on how to use the ship cotton swab page below.
Use Q-Tips to Paint the Ship
You can use paints with the cotton swab page. You can put washable paints in a paint tray.
Then use q-tip to paint the ship with paints.
This is a fun way to work on fine motor skills by using the q-tip for painting. You have pincher grip and hand eye coordination.
Use Mini Dot Markers on the Ship
You can also use the mini dot markers on the cotton swab page. They are perfect for the size and give a challenge for kids but have the dot marker size to hold. A fun change that kids will love.
What you will find in the Free Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables
- 1 Ship Templates
- 1 Ship Tracing Mats
- 1 Ship Q-Tip Mat
- 3 pages
Fall Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 25 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
- 25 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, school bus, scarecrow, acorn, fire, fire truck, ghost, cauldron, ship, cornucopia
- 120 pages
- Price: $4
More Thanksgiving Printables for Kids
Use these Easy Reader Pilgrim Books for Thanksgiving for working on words and early reading. It has worksheets, vocab list, reading strips and more to help learn the words.
First Thanksgiving Sequencing Cards, writing and easy reader book are a fun way to learn about the first Thanksgiving. You have clip cards, task cards, easy reader book, cut and paste worksheets, writing and tracing worksheets in the set.
Placemat Fine Motor Mat Printables has a place letting with a plate, knife, fork, and spoon. You have a placemat template, placemat tracing printable, and a placemat cotton swab printable.
Turkey Fine Motor Mats has 5 different mats with turkey themes with turkey tracing mat, turkey template, turkey dot marker and turkey q-tip mat. Easy fine motor activities for Thanksgiving.
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Paper Roll Turkey Craft is a super simple craft to make for kids to make! Kids can use paper rolls to make the turkey and looks great.
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