Blogger / 5 May, 2026 / Nanny Anita

Flower Fine Motor Skills Activity

I did a similar activity to this flower fine motor skills activity last year, but NC was a lot younger and struggled with putting the pieces back in.  This time she had no problem taking the pieces out or putting them back in.  Now we need to work on her colour recognition.

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To make your own flower fine motor skills activity you will need:

• A box
• Pointed screwdriver
• Paint
• Ear buds
• Scissors

Start by painting some big flowers onto the bottom of your box.

Next use the pointed screwdriver to poke holes through the flowers.  I made 2 holes per petal and one in the centre of each flower.

Colour the tips of each earbud to match the colours of the flowers and cut them in half.  You will need about 6 ear buds per flower.

When you set this up for your little one you can either start with the ear buds placed in each hole or with a few of them in and the rest in a container next to the box.

NC loves doing activities like this where she must put things in and out of something.  As I mentioned earlier, she had no problem doing this part, but she wasn’t really getting the colour matching part of the activity.  This wasn’t a problem at all, and I didn’t really want to step in a keep correcting her.  It will be interesting to see if she will start to natural colour sort them as she gets older.

She did also enjoy flipping the box over and pushing the ear buds out.

If you enjoyed this flower fine motor skills activity, be sure to check out my pasta structures, and bird feeding number activity.

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