Free Disco Ball Fine Motor Mat Printables For New Years
The Disco Ball Fine motor mats are great for New Year’s or any party theme. You can use the fine motor mats as a countdown ball for kids for New Years. Or for any party theme.
The disco fine motor mats have disco ball template, disco ball tracing mats, disco ball dot marker page, disco ball q-tip page. All great for working on different types of fine motor skills for kids.
The disco ball fine motor mat printables are great for tot, preschool, prek, and kindergarten.
The Disco Ball Fine Motor Mat Printables is an excellent addition to the New Year’s printables and fine motor printables on the site.
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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.
Disco Ball Fine Motor Mat Printables
The disco ball fine motor mats have four types of pages. You have a disco ball template, disco ball tracing mats, disco ball dot marker page, and disco ball cotton swab page.
These provide different ways to work on fine motor skills with kids. And you can use the page that works best for you.
The disco ball fine motor mats are great for tot (ages 2 to 3), preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
Disco Ball Template Printable
The disco ball template has a circle with lines vertical and horizontal to make the disco ball. You have several lines each way for the template.
Disco Ball Tracing Printable
You have the same disco ball lines for the template but this are tracing lines. Kids can trace the lines for a fine motor prewriting change.
Disco Ball Q-Tip Printable
The disco ball cotton swab page has the same lines as the template but you have small dots on the disco ball that kids can dot with a cotton swab.
Disco Ball Dot Marker Printable
The disco ball dot marker page has fewer lines than the template but has space enough dot a circle in the space between the lines. A fun way to work on fine motor with a dot marker or bingo dabber.
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A New Year’s Eve Book to read with the Disco Ball or Countdown Ball Fine Motor Mats
A fun book to read with the Disco ball Fine Motor mats is The Night Before New Year’s is a book about everyone trying to stay up for the New Years. A fun way to work in this easy reader book with the story.
Things to use with the Disco Ball 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 Disco Ball Fine Motor Mats Printables
You will see a few suggestions on how to use the disco ball fine motor mats. These are just a few ideas and some we do often.
Ways to Use the Disco Ball Template Printable
You are going to see a few ways we have used the disco ball template page.
Color the Disco Ball Template
You can have a lot of fun just coloring the disco ball. You can see we used LOTS of different colors. But younger kids can just just one color and that is okay.
You could use colored pencils, markers or crayons. You could challenge older kids to color the disco ball with shading to make it look more 3D.
Make a Disco Ball Torn Paper Craft with Kids
Another fun idea that we do a lot is use the template page for a template for a torn paper craft. You could challenge kids to tear up paper the glue it on the ball. You could use glitter paper to make it glitter.
Ways to Use the Disco Ball Tracing Printable
You are going to see a few ways to use the disco ball tracing page.
Setting up a Tracing Center with the Disco Ball Tracing Printable
This fun disco ball is great for a tracing center. You can see we put a pencil on the page, but you could trace the lines with crayons or markers.
You can trace the ball all at one time or break it up into different days. Do what works best for the age of the child using the page. This is great fine motor pencil work that does not feel like tracing the same lines over and over.
Reuse the Disco Ball Tracing page
You can also reuse the tracing page in a fine motor center. You can see we put the page in a sheet protector. Then we used a dry erase marker to trace the lines. You can use the marker that works best for the kids tracing the lines. And remember you can do this over a few days or all at once.
Paint the Lines with Q-tips
Another fun challenge for older kids is to change up how we use the tracing page. You can give them q-tip and paints to trace the lines with the q-tips. This changes up the fine motor they are doing and makes it loads of fun to trace lines, without feeling link they are working on fine motor. Because painting is fun to a lot of kids.
Ways to Use the Disco Ball Dot Marker Printable
You are going to see a few ways to use the disco dot marker page. And these are just a few ideas.
Dot Marker the Disco Ball
Well since this is a dot marker page, use dot markers on it! You can see how we used two different colors of dot markers to dot the disco ball. We used some of the shimmer dot markers to make the page shine.
Reuse the Disco Ball Dot Marker Page
You can also reuse the disco ball dot marker pages. We do this often before using the dot markers. You can use this idea one day and the dot marker the next day.
We used glass gems to place on the circles. You can see how well they fit on the page.
We used the clear glass gems but you could use any color you want.
Ways to Use the Disco Ball Cotton Swab Printable
You are going to see a few ways we used the disco ball or countdown ball cotton swab page.
Paint the Disco Ball with Q-Tips
You can see we had loads of fun and used glitter paint on a paint tray and q-tip to paint the ball. We did a change of every one row a different colors. But you can paint them all way you want and with a mix of types of paint.
Use Mini Dot Markers on the Disco Ball
You can also use the dot marker mini on the disco ball. We have loads of fun with these. And they are great for working on hands eye coordination with small dots and the bigger space to hold.
What you will find in the Free Disco Ball Fine Motor Mat Printables
- Disco ball or countdown ball
- 1 Disco Ball Templates
- 1 Disco Ball Tracing Mats
- 1 Disco Ball Q-Tip Mat
- 1 Disco Ball Dot Marker Mats
- 4 pages
Winter Fine Motor Mat Printable Set
You have 19 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
- 19 Fine motor mats with a mix of templates, tracing, dot marker, q-tip and playdough mats.
- Winter Fine Motor Mats: Winter Fine Motor Mats include Basketball, Chinese Lantern, Christmas Tree, Clover, Fireworks, Gingerbread Man, Heart, Menorah, Moon – All the Phases of the Moon, Snowflake, Tooth, dreidel, Mitten, Hand, Penguin, Christmas Lights, Poinsettia, disco ball or countdown ball
- 123 pages
- Price: $4
More New Years Printables & Activities for Kids
No-Prep New Year Weekly Packs with 6 levels of learning Prek, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. You have 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day. They have a mix of language and math for kids to work on.
Firework Fine Motor Mat Printable is a super fine fine motor mat to use for new years. It has three different firework mats to use with kids.
Party Hat Fine Motor Mats has three party hat fine motor printables. You have a party hat template, party hat tracing worksheet, and a party hat dot marker printable.
Fine Motor Sequin Sensory Bin is a great New Year’s theme for kids to do. You can put this sensory bin together in under a minutes!
The New Years Pack is a Tot, Preschool, Prek, and Kindergarten learning pack. It has over 50 pages plus the Tot Pack. It has 3 part cards, matching cards, writing, dot marker pages, and more.
Finger Painting Fireworks with Glitter Paint For Kids is a super simple fireworks painting that kids can do for New Years Eve.
Check out all the fun New Years Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
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