Free Medal Fine Motor Mat Printables
Medals are something you find with sports and different awards for kids. And these are great for the Winter Olympics, Summer Olympic, and any sports award theme. The Medal fine motor mats are great for having kids make their own medals and working on different types of fine motor skills.
You have a medal tracing page, a medal template, a medal dot marker page and a medal cotton swab page. Each of these helps you develop different fine motor skills.
The medal fine motor mats are great for preschool, prek, and kindergarten.
The Medal Fine Motor Mat Printables is a great addition to the Olympic games printables and fine motor printables on the site.
The Medal 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 Olympic 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.
Medal Fine Motor Mat Printables
The medal fine motor mats have four different fine motor pages. It has a medal tracing printable, a medal template printable, a medal dot marker printable, and a medal q-tip printable.
You are going to find the ribbon and the medal on the ribbon for the fine motor mats.
The medal fine motor mats are great for preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
Medal Template Printable
The medial template page has the ribbon and the medal with solid lines. A fun page for kids to design their own medal.
Medal Tracing Printable
The medal tracing page is like the template but has dashed lines for all parts of the medal.
Medal Q-Tip Printable
The medal q-tip page has small circles all over the medal for kids to use cotton swabs to dot the circles.
Medal Dot Marker Printable
The medal dot marker page has circles that work great for dot markers on the medal.
If you have the current password to the subscriber page and enter the password in the link above. Then scroll down to Olympic section.
Then click the arrow to expand the section.
Then look for the medal fine motor mat printable and click the link to download.
Great Book to read with the Medal Fine Motor Mats
A great book to go with this Olympic Medal printable is G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics Alphabet (Sports Alphabet). You can read the book and learn about the gold medal and more about the Olympics for winter and summer
Things to use with the Medal Fine Motor Printables
- printer
- white copy paper
- colored paper
- colored pencils
- crayons
- markers
- dot markers
- pencil
- pencil grip – We love these!
- sheet protectors
- white cardstock
- dry erase markers
- clear counters
- dot marker mini
- paint tray
- washable paints
- q-tip
Ways to Use the Medal Fine Motor Mats Printables
You are going to see a few ways to use each of the medal fine motor mats below. It is fun to show a few ways to use the printables.
Ways to Use the Medal Template Printable
You will see a few ways to use the medal template page with kids.
Color the Medal Fine Motor Mat
You can have kids color the medal. We used glitter crayons to color the medal. The glitter crayons are a fun change from normal crayons for coloring.
You could also use normal crayons and markers to color the page.
Make a Torn Paper Medal Craft
The medal template page also works great for a torn paper craft. We use construction paper and glitter paper. You have kids tear the paper and the glue the paper on the medal. A fun way to work on fine motor skills while making a medal.
Design Their Own Medal
The medal template page is also perfect to have kids design their own medal. You can have the draw on the template and design their own medal for the Olympics or a sport. You can have the draw and then color the medal. It is fun to see how creative kids can be.
Ways to Use the Medal Tracing Printable
You are going to see a few ways to use the medal tracing pages with kids.
Setting up the Medal Tracing Center
You can print the medal tracing page on copy paper and then use it in a fine motor center. You can set it up to trace the medal all at one time or over several days.
You can see a have a pencil and apencil grip to helps with holding the pencil.
Reusing the Medal Tracing Page
The medal tracing page is a great printable to reuse. You can print on white or colored copy paper. You put the page in a sheet protector or laminate the page. Then kids can use dry erase markers to trace all the lines on the paper.
This is a simple way to use the medal tracing page over and over in a learning center. And tracing the lines of a picture is fun for kids.
Ways to Use the Medal Q-Tip Printable
You are going to see ways we have used the Medal tracing printable with kids.
Use Q-tips On the Medal Q-Tip Page
You can see how fun it is to use the q-tip tracing page. You put paint in a paint tray and use cotton swabs. You can use two paints for the medal and ribbon.
Kids will dot each of the small dots with paint. And kids could use different colors and mix up how they paint the medal.
Mini Dot Markers on the Medal Cotton Swab Page
Another fun idea is mini dot markers. They are the perfect size for the small circles. Kids can use it to match the dots on the page to dot the cotton swab medal printable.
Ways to Use the Medal Dot Marker Printable
You are going to see how we use the medal dot marker page.
Dot Marker the Medal Page
You can guess but dot markers work great on the dot marker page. It is fun to pull out the shimmer dot markers to use on the medal.
We used gold and silver for our dot marker medal. But let kids be creative with the colors that they pick. And it is fun to see how it turns out.
Use the Medal Dot Marker Page in a Hands-on Learning Center
Another great idea for the medal dot marker page is to use glass gems on the circles. You can see we use black glass gems and yellow glass gems on the circles.
It is great fine motor to place each of the gems on the circles. Plus you can do this before you use dot markers on the page. This allows you to use the medal fine motor mat in two different centers.
What you will find in the Free Medal Fine Motor Mat Printables
- Four Medal Fine motor mats for kids
- 1 Medal Template Page
- 1 Medal Tracing Mat Page
- 1 Medal Q-Tip Mat
- 1 Medal Dot Marker Mats
- 4 pages
If you have the current password to the subscriber page and enter the password in the link above. Then scroll down to Olympic section.
Then click the arrow to expand the section.
Then look for the medal fine motor mat printable and click the link to download.
Summer Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 14 fun summer fine motor mats together in a fun bundle. Easy to use and great to use all season.
What you will find in the Summer Fine Motor Mats Printable Set
- 14 Fine motor mats with a mix of templates, tracing, dot marker q-tip and playdough mats.
- Summer Fine Motor Mats: Fish, Fireworks, Ice Cream, Shark, Shell, Sun, Turtle, Planet, Sandcastle, Torch, Watermelon, Shark Teeth, Medal
- 51 pages
- Price: $4
More Olympic Sport Printables for Kids
Torch Fine Motor Mat Printables has four fine motor mats with a torch template, torch tracing worksheet, torch dot marker printable and torch q-tip printable.
Olympics Medal Counting Book is a fun 1 to 10 counting book. You can trace the number and count the gold medals. This is a great prek and kindergarten Olympic printable.
Olympic Roll and Graph Math for Addition & Multiplication has two page options for addition and multiplication. A great way to practice math facts. The addition is great for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. The multiplication is great for third grade and fourth grade.
Have some fun with Summer Sports Gross motor activities! This is a great way to get kids moving! You have 6 fun summer actions sports for kids to do.
Winter Sports Gross Motor Dice has 6 fun winter sports for kids to do gross motor with. It is a great way to learn winter sports and get moving!
Sports Dot the Number & Counting has Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Baseball & Football. You have a dot marker number with counting from 0 to 20! You have color and black and white versions.
Check out all the fun Olympic Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com