Free Butterfly Fine Motor Mats
Easy to use butterfly fine motor mats. And they are free. You have different types of butterflies and three types of mats with templates, tracing and dot marker for each type of butterfly.
These are great for fine motor work with any butterfly theme. You can use the butterfly template that works the best for you.
There are 18 butterfly fine motor mats that you can check out and use with kids during the spring.
The Butterfly Fine Motor Mat Printables is a great addition to the bug printables and fine motor printables on the site.
The Butterfly Fine Motor Mat Printables are part of my subscriber library. You can subscribe to the newsletter and get access to the password there. You will find it in the bug section on the subscriber freebie page.
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.
Butterfly Fine Motor Mat Printables
This is a really fun butterfly fine motor set. it has different butterfly shapes and is loads of fun. You have a few butterfly template printables, butterfly tracing printables, and butterfly dot marker printables. There are 18 pages of butterfly fine motor mat printables.
Butterfly Template Printable
You have three shapes of butterflies with a side template and both wing templates. You have a blank one, a butterfly with shapes and butterfly outlines that you can use with kids. You have a mix of different pages.
Butterfly Tracing Printable
You have three shapes of butterflies with tracing the side template and wings templates. You have two types of wing shapes on the side. You have the outline of the to trace and then the butterfly with shapes on the wings to trace.
Butterfly Dot Marker Printable
You have the same three butterfly with dot markers on them. You can pick which of the tree butterflies you would like to dot. The butterfly side view or the two different butterfly wings.
Things to use with the Butterfly 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
Ways to Use the Butterfly Fine Motor Mats Printables
You will see a few ways to use the fine motor mats. And you can use some or all or do something completely different. But these are great for spring and a butterfly theme.
Ways to Use the Butterfly Template Printable
These are a few ideas to use the butterfly template with kids.
Color the Butterfly Template
the butterfly template works great as a coloring page. You can use crayons or markers to color the parts of the butterfly.
You can talk about symmetry as well while coloring and do both sides of the wings the same.
Torn Paper Butterfly Craft
You can use the template to help with a torn paper butterfly craft. Kids can tear up the paper and then paste it on the butterfly. A great way to work on fine motor skills.
Ways to Use the Butterfly Tracing Printable
Here are some suggestions to use the butterfly tracing printables in fine motor learning centers.
Setting Up a Butterfly Tracing Center
You can use pencils and a butterfly for a fine motor tracing center. it is great way to work on prewriting without using letters. You can trace a simple butterfly or a more complex butterfly.
You can see we use a pencil and pencil grip to set up the tracing center.
Trace with Crayons & Color the Butterfly
Another great idea is to trace the butterfly with crayons and then color the butterfly. You have three to pick from and kids might like to do a different one.
You can see how we outlined the butterfly and then colored in the area we traced. It was loads of fun to see the colors come up in the butterfly.
Reuse the Butterfly Tracing Worksheets
You can also reuse the butterfly tracing worksheets. All six butterflies can be used this way. You can put the butterfly in a sheet protector and then use dry erase markers to trace the lines of the butterfly.
A simple way to reuse the page. Just wipe it off between kids and have them trace at it again.
Ways to Use the Butterfly Dot Marker Printable
The dot markers pages are always fun to use in fine motor centers. You can see how we used the butterfly dot marker pages.
Use Dot Markers the Butterfly
Okay the most obvious is to use them with dot markers. Yes the circles on the butterfly work great for a butterfly theme.
And you can use any color you want. You can challenge older kids to match both sides of the wings. A great symmetry activity as well as fine motor.
Use Glass Gems on the Butterfly
You can also use glass gems on the butterfly. We did black and orange but you could use any colors you want.
Kids get great fine motor as they place the glass gems in each of the circles.
What you will find in the Free Butterfly Fine Motor Mat Printables
- 9 Butterfly Templates
- 6 Butterfly Tracing Mats
- 3 Butterfly Dot Marker Mats
- 18 pages
Spring Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 12 fun spring fine motor mats together in a fun bundle.
What you will find in the Spring Fine Motor Mats Printable Set
- 11 Fine motor mats with a mix of templates, tracing, dot marker, q-tip and playdough mats.
- Spring Fine Motor Mats: Baseball, Earth, Easter Egg, Ladybug, Rainbow, Raindrop, Tree, Tulip, Dinosaur Egg, Kite, Cherry Blossom, Butterfly
- 70 pages
- Price: $4
More Butterfly Printables for Kids
Butterfly No-Prep Weekly Packs are another set of no-prep weekly packs that are great for spring and summer. You have butterfly life cycle activities, with a mix of math and language. You have six grade levels pre, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.
Butterfly Activities Pack for Prewriting, Shape, ABCs & Numbers. It has no-prep pages, easy reader books, clip cards and tracing strip for kids to learn with. Plus the butterfly theme is great for spring.
Butterfly Color Pack has 63 pages of activities with different colored butterflies for kids to learn color words. You have butterfly color clip cards, butterfly color easy reader books, butterfly color no-prep pages, butterfly color puzzles and more. It is great for working on color words.
Butterfly Life Cycle Easy Reader Books has an easy reader book for the life cycle with writing pages, butterfly life cycle vocab chart, butterfly life cycle journal, butterfly life cycle bookmarks and more.
From Caterpillar to Butterfly – Painting Butterflies is a fun butterfly painting project. This is easy to do and great for almost any age! You can work on symmetry with this painting activity.
Check out all the fun Bug & Insect Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com