Free Basketball Fine Motor Mat Printables
Basketball is a great theme for March, spring and summer. The free Basketball Fine motor Mat Printables are a great way to add in some fine motor work..
You can use them for crafts, fine motor mat centers, and more. And you can use the mats that work best for you. And kids will have a blast.
You will find 4 basketball fine motor mats: basketball tracing, basketball template mat, basketball q-tip, and basketball dot marker.
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What are Fine Motor Skills?
Fine motor skills involve using the small muscles in your hands and wrists to make precise movements.
This can be tearing paper, playdough, pencil control, or coloring with a crayon.
Basketball Fine Motor Mats
You have four basketball fine motor mats. You have basketball tracing mats, basketball template mats, basketball q-tip mat, and basketball dot marker mat. These add a little fine motor fun for a basketball theme and summer sports.
Basketball Template Printable
The basketball template has a big basketball for kids. These are great for basketball coloring, basketball playdough mats, and basketball crafts.
Basketball Tracing Printable
You have two basketball tracing printables. This basketball tracing printable allows for fine motor work in tracing the lines of the ball.
Basketball Q-Tip Printable
You have the outline of the basketball for a q-tip fine motor mat for kids. It is a great way to work on fine motor with kids.
Basketball Dot Marker Printable
The basketball dot marker has the basketball with dot markers filling in the ball. This is great for dot markers and other small items to cover.
Things to use with the Basketball Fine Motor Printables
- printer
- white copy paper
- colored paper
- colored pencils
- crayons
- dot marker
- markers
- pencil
- pencil grips – We love these!
- sheet protectors
- white cardstock
- dry erase markers
- playdough
- clear counters
- mini dot markers
- paint tray
- orange paint
- q-tip
Ways to Use the Basketball Fine Motor Mats Printables
You will see a few ways to use the basketball fine motor mats with kids. These fine motor mats are very flexible and fun for kids.
Ways to use the Basketball Template Printable
You will see a few ways that we have used the basketball template.
Color the Basketball Fine Motor Printable
You can color the basketball with crayons or markers. It is super simple to do and fun for kids. You can color the ball orange or maybe color the ball your favorite team color.
Make a Torn Paper Basketball
The basketball template makes a great template for a torn paper craft. You can have kids tear up orange pieces of paper and then glue them on the ball. This makes a great fine motor basketball craft.
Finger Paint the Basketball
You can also use finger paints and finger paint the basketball for younger kids. This is a great way to use it for tot and preschool age kids.
Ways to Use the Basketball Tracing Printable
You will see a few ways to use the basketball tracing worksheets with kids.
Trace the Basketball Printable
You can trace the lines of the basketball. You can do it in marker, pencil or crayon. You could trace in orange as we have or you could trace in black and the color in the basketball.
If you have issues with holding the pencil while tracing, you can use a pencil grip. They are great for helping with pencil control.
Reuse the Trace the Basketball Printable
You can reuse the tracing basketball in a fine motor center. You can print on orange cardstock and laminate or put in a sheet protector.
Then use a dry erase marker to trace the lines.
Ways to use the Basketball Q-Tip Printable
We used a q-tip and orange paints to outline the basketball. It is a great fine motor activity for kids. You give kids orange paint, a q-tip and then paint away. It is a great fine motor activity for kids to do.
Ways to use the Basketball Dot Marker Printable
You are going to see a few suggestions on how to use the basketball dot marker mat printable.
Reuse the Basketball Dot Marker Printable
You can reuse the basketball dot marker fine motor mat. One way to do that is to use clear counters to cover the circles. You can see below how well the counters work on the mat.
Use Dot Markers the Basketball Dot Marker printable
You can also just use an orange dot marker on the basketball dot marker printable. It is great fine motor work to put the dot marker in each circle.
Plus some kids just love dot markers.
What you will find in the Free Basketball Fine Motor Mat Printables
- 1 Basketball Templates
- 1 Basketball Tracing Mats
- 1 Basketball Q-Tip Mats
- 1 Basketball Dot Marker Mats
- 4 pages
Winter Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 13 fun winter fine motor mats together in a fun bundle. Easy to use and great to use all season.
What you will find in the Winter Fine Motor Mats Printable Set
- 13 Fine motor mats with a mix of templates, tracing, dot marker, q-tip and playdough mats.
- Fall Fine Motor Mats: Winter Fine Motor Mats include Basketball, Chinese Lantern, Christmas Tree, Clover, Fireworks, Party Hat, Gingerbread Man, Heart, Dreidel, Menorah, Moon – All the Phases of the Moon, Snowflake, and Tooth.
- 88 pages
- Price: $4
More Basketball Printables
No-Prep Basketball Weekly Packs has 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day. They are great for homework, morning work and more! They have 6 grade level options: PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. These are easy to use spring printable packs.
Basketball Dot the Number & Counting has numbers from 0 to 20 with black and white and color options for the dot marker mats.
No-Prep Summer Sports Weekly Packs has 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day. They are great for homework, morning work and more! They have 6 grade level options: PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. These are easy to use spring printable packs. With 5 different summer sports, basketball is included.
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