Improve Pencil Grip with Sticker Match

Have you tried Sticker Match to help pencil grip? You must! This learning through-play activity is simple, easy to set up, and packed with a fine motor punch. Sticker Match is also a risk-free way to improve pencil grip! So gather your toddler and preschooler, and let’s get these chubby little fingers moving.

RELATED: Turns out, I have a lot of enthusiasm for strengthening small hand muscles. Here are 50 fine motor activities for kids.

Table of Contents:

1. What activities are helpful for fine motor skills?
2. How Sticker Match will improve fine motor skills
3. Supplies
4. Set up
5. FAQ
6. Improve Pencil Grip with Sticker Match

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What activities are helpful for fine motor skills?

Fine motor activities need to include small hand movements. These simple play prompts will strengthen hands and help the pencil grip. The good news? There are so many low-prep preschool activities that help improve fine motor skills!

Here is a terrific list of ways to improve fine motor skills:

• Coloring
• Getting dressed and buttoning buttons
• Grasping blocks
• Kneading clay
• Learning and practicing how to cut
• Painting
• Pinching Legos
• Playing with Playdough
• Squeezing squirt bottles
• Squirting water bottles
• Using tongs
• Weaving

We need fine motor activities like these to prepare for writing later in the future. Read what Michigan State University says about building fine motor skills and why it matters.

How Sticker Match will improve fine motor skills

I’m with you. I get it. We want simple to set-up, easy-to-execute ideas. Fine motor activities can be played at home without a lot of fuss. 

Here, the idea is effortless. Preschoolers look for similar stickers and begin to match the two bringing the marker from left to right. 

Behind the scenes with Sticker Match:

• Helping with practice holding a pencil in a risk-free way.
• Working left to right is preparing eye-tracking for reading and writing words down the road.
• Matching the same stickers improves paying attention to details. 
• Expanding vocabulary through conversation. 
• Helping YOU drink your coffee hot. – New here? We call these simple learning games Breakfast Invitations. Simple play prompts to start your day with creativity and coffee. (wink, wink)

Supplies

Like most preschool and toddler activities here at Days with Grey, we keep supplies simple. Supplies for this easy idea can also be used for many other sticker activities for kids.

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Set up

1. Tape the white paper to the table.
2. Add the same stickers to either side of the paper.
3. Invite your preschooler to use their marker to match from left to right. 

PRO TIP: When they are finished, encourage any creative lines and twists your child wants to add. Remember, the goal is to practice using a marker in a risk-free environment. We want to take the early years to build momentum for more rigorous tasks down the road. 

Sticker Match is a blast every time and a great way to reinforce holding a marker, moving left to the right, and hand-eye coordination for toddlers and preschoolers.

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