Preschool Pencil Boxes or Centers Fine motor ALPHABET AND PHONICS

Pencil box activities for alphabet letters and phonics skills using tongs. Make work tasks or center activities. Use tongs and centimeter cubes for all cards. Store in pencil boxes.

Pencil box activities for alphabet letters and phonics skills using tongs. Make work tasks or center activities. Use tongs and centimeter cubes for all cards. Store in pencil boxes. Practice fine motor skills needed to develop a tripod grasp, while doing academic activities for preschool, kindergarten, special education or occupational therapy.

Developed by Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR from The Fine Motor Store/The Handwriting Clinic. Tongs activities can be a great activity to decrease a whole handed approach to fine motor skills, and to develop separation of the two sides of the hand. Children need to progress to using the radial side of their hand to hold pencils, scissors, tongs, and other tools (think buttoning, fork, etc). Using a tripod grasp with tongs is a great activity.

Materials needed: VERY ECONOMICAL

Pencil boxes – clear ones are in the product description and can be ordered in bulk (set of 10) for a very economical cost.

Tweezers or tongs – my favorite ones are “bamboo tongs” – and can be ordered on Amazon for $1 – 2 dollars if ordering several at a time.

Print printable in file, cut and laminate. (black and white files are included if you do not have access to a color printer – you would have to color your own)

Centimeter cubes – available from EAI education. These cubes come in 8 different colors in a set of 1000 for around $8.00.

This pencil box set includes 84 printable activity cards. Enough to make 4 pencil box activities. See preview for the 4 types of files. Students will use counting skills to complete the cards.

This product is also part of a Pencil Box TONGS Bundle

The Fine Motor Store also sells a pencil box bundle of Fine Motor PENCIL CONTROL activities. (Files also sold separately)

PENCIL BOX FINE MOTOR SKILLS BUNDLE!

You may also be interested in my other premium bundle HANDWRITING :

Handwriting Practice Activities in a Pencil Box Bundle

●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

Tips for Customer:

Become a follower of The Fine Motor Store for news of sales, freebies and new products:

• Click on the green star next to The Fine Motor Store logo. You will receive email updates about this store!

Earn TPT credit toward future purchases:

• Go to your My Purchases page. Simply click on the Provide Feedback button to give a quick rating and short comment for your purchases. You earn TPT credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I always read and appreciate customer feedback!

●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

My Teacher’s Pay Teachers store:

The Fine Motor Store

THANK YOU for visiting The Fine Motor Store!