Activities to Develop Fine Motor Skills:

• Pouring sand, water, salt, sugar, rice, or beans using bowls, funnels, spoons, cups, tubes, rolls, colander
• Sorting small objects with interesting textures like cotton balls, pastas, sponges, and rocks placing them into egg cartons
• Pushing objects through a slot like pennies or buttons into a Piggy Bank or container with a slit in lid; pushing pegs into a board
• Picking up marbles and putting them in a jar; for variety, have child stand up and drop marbles into jar or drop balls or other small objects into container or sack
• Building with blocks, logs, legos
• Lacing with lacing cards – poking string through holes and pulling
• Grasping wooden puzzles pieces and placing correctly
• Arranging rocks, leaves, beans, cards, pasta, sticks or whatever interests child
• Picking stickers off page and successfully placing onto something
• Playing with Play Dough and clay: pulling, pressing, stretching, rolling, pounding, squeezing, pinching
• Squeezing glue bottles, water guns, sponges
• Shaking bottles of glitter
• Beading necklaces with yarn or pasta wheels and lacing string
• Pushing pipe cleaners into foam shapes with center cut out or push into colanders
• Marking with fat pencils, crayons, markers, and sidewalk chalk
• Cutting with child safety scissors which are blunt and fits hand. Opening and closing the scissors as well as cutting increases hand strength.

credit to: http://www.mommywithselectivememory.com/2011/12/how-to-improve-fine-motor-skills-in.html