Free Printable Snowflake Fine Motor Mats

This fun, free printable, snowflake fine motor activity can be done in lots of different ways and is a great way to work on fine motor skills for preschoolers, and older kids!

Use these snowflake fine motor mats with loose parts, playdough, dot markers, or pencils to work on lots of important fine motor and pre-writing skills in a hands-on and fun way.

These pattern mats are easy to print, and easy to use, making them perfect for a winter themed learning activity, or a fun way to learn about snowflakes.

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If you are working on a winter learning theme, or just looking for a fun fine motor activity, these snowflake pattern tracing printables can be used in lots of fun and creative ways for lots of hands on learning and skill development.

This simple snowflake fine motor activity encourages kids to work on fine motor skills in a fun and creative way. You can also easily include lots of math learning such as following a pattern, counting items, and learning about symmetry. Or simply use them as a base for some creativity and snowflake art!

There are so many fun ways to use these snowflake pattern mats with lots of different materials. We’ve shared some of our favourite ideas for using these pattern mats below, but I’m sure you can come up with lots more!

However you use these snowflake fine motor mats, your kids will love being creative and building their fine motor skills while they play.

If your kids need to work on fine motor skills, you might like to try one of these easy activities to practice fine motor skills.

Snowflake Pattern Mats and Loose Parts

One of my favourite ways to use these snowflake pattern mats with my preschoolers is to combine them with loose parts!

Loose parts play is a fun and creative way to work on fine motor skills! Simply collect a variety of loose parts to place on the pattern lines to decorate the snowflakes.

We chose wooden shapes, beads, pom poms, mini craft sticks, and sequins in blues and whites to decorate the snowflakes.

Snowflake Fine Motor Mats and Playdough

These fine motor mats make great snowflake playdough mats!

Grab some playdough, or make a fresh batch of our easy microwave playdough recipe, and use the dough to follow the patterns of the snowflakes. We added a few sparkly sequins to your playdough snowflakes to give them some extra ‘bling’!

Rolling long sausages of dough to follow the lines of the patterns is a great workout for the small muscles in a child’s hands, practicing lots of pre-writing skills!

Snowflake Fine Motor Pattern Mats and Dot Markers.

Dot markers are another great idea to use with these heart pattern mats. Dot along each pattern line with whatever colours you choose!

This is a great option for toddlers as dotting along the pattern lines is much easier for younger children with less fine motor control, so this is a great way for a younger child to be involved without so much frustration!

More Ways to use these Snowflake Fine Motor Pattern Mats.

There are so many fun ways to use these snowflake pattern mats!

• Using pencils, markers or highlighters and trace along the lines of each snowflake.
• Use natural materials such as leaves, flowers, sticks, grass, seed pods, gum nuts etc. to add to your loose parts to decorate the snowflakes.
• Use cotton buds (q-tips) and try some cotton bud painting along the lines to really give those small hand muscles a workout.
• Use the pattern mats to work on scissor skills by cutting along the dotted lines.
• Or grab some jumbo tweezers to add an extra fine motor challenge.
• Use the snowflake pattern mats as an art template – try some crayon resist painting, or just some good old watercolour paints to follow the lines and patterns, or collect some collage materials and have fun gluing items along the lines.
• Stick some stickers along the patterns of the snowflakes for an easy low-mess option.
• Make a math game by using counters and dice (or these printable number cards) with the snowflake pattern mats. Roll a dice and count out the number of items to add to the pattern mats.

There are so many fun ways to use these snowflake fine motor mats!

Download the Free Printable Snowflake Fine Motor Mats

There are ten different snowflake patterns in this set.

These free printable pattern mats are ready to print and use, no other preparation required.

This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.

More Fun Wintery Printables and Activities for Kids

If you are looking for more fun wintery activities and ideas you can find all our fun and easy winter activities here, or try one of these fun ideas: