Fine Motor Activity with Sand and Salt Trays

  Do you have any students struggling with letter/number formation? I have a Kindergarten student this year that really struggles with fine motor skills.
  I decided to make a salt tray for her to practice writing her numbers.  So I went to our local Dollar Tree and picked up the supplies. As I was walking through the craft section, I noticed they had bags of colored sand! OMG! I got every color that they had left.
  So I made a tray with sand and a tray with salt.  She loved it! We practiced our numbers 1-20. She struggles with the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8. She could write them perfectly in the salt/sand tray. I was so proud of her! It definitely helps to switch things up in the classroom and get away from the paper and pencil.


1 comment:

  1. If you put the rice or sand in a pencil box, you can just close the lid and put it away...no fuss, no muss, nor pouring sand or rice from a bag or container into your pie pan. It worked like a charm for my kindergartners that really struggled and needed extra practice! (I always tried to pick up a few pencil boxes at clearance time after back to school shopping for just this purpose!)
    Tonya
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