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Best of 2016 Fine Motor Skills Inside Play Quick and Easy

Sticker Line-Up

STICKER LINE-UP: A super simple activity for toddlers to play; quick and easy indoor activity; a fun fine motor skills game using stickers

Make a sticker line-up for an awesome quiet activity!

Ever have a day where you just need a minute of quiet? Maybe a second or two without answering a question? Or a quick moment to sit and have your coffee?

Sticker Line-Up just might be the answer to your toddler activity prayers – and bonus: there’s loads of learning going on here too!

I was so inspired by Learning 4 Kids’ Fine Motor Work Station activity with buttons, that I created this larger sticker version for my toddler.

STICKER LINE-UP: A super simple activity for toddlers to play; quick and easy indoor activity; a fun fine motor skills game using stickers

Setting up this sticker line-up activity took seconds!

Materials:
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  • Dot stickers
  • Butcher paper

I rolled out a 3 foot long section of butcher paper for my toddler and that was the perfect size for his three year old attention span. Any longer and he would have lost interest. Any shorter and he would have ended early.

I drew a mix of zig-zag, curly, loopy, and swirly lines down the center of the paper. His goal: use his stickers to “trace” the line.


STICKER LINE-UP: A super simple activity for toddlers to play; quick and easy indoor activity; a fun fine motor skills game using stickers

Sticker line-up was an instant hit!

I showed my toddler quickly what the “idea” was in this project and it was an instant winner. The amount of quiet concentration that immediately went into this activity was amazing.

He was hooked and loved peeling the stickers from their sheet and lining them up on the paper.

STICKER LINE-UP: A super simple activity for toddlers to play; quick and easy indoor activity; a fun fine motor skills game using stickers

What sort of learning is happening in sticker line-up?

So much learning is happening in this activity. My toddler is working on:

  • Fine motor skills
  • Hand eye coordination
  • Pinching techniques

The sticker line-up activity has so many possibilities: use it for patterning, color recognition, and even literacy – maybe add letters to the stickers?

STICKER LINE-UP: A super simple activity for toddlers to play; quick and easy indoor activity; a fun fine motor skills game using stickers

My 19 month old isn’t quite ready for activities like this so I set her up with a plain piece of paper and a sheet of stickers for her own play. She was equally as hooked!

STICKER LINE-UP: A super simple activity for toddlers to play; quick and easy indoor activity; a fun fine motor skills game using stickers

This sticker line-up was a fantastic hit for us – we all loved it! I loved having a second to drink my coffee in peace and quiet, and my toddler loved following the sticker path down the hall way. This will be a regular in our house from now on!

Would your toddler enjoy playing sticker line-up too?

STICKER LINE-UP: A super simple activity for toddlers to play; quick and easy indoor activity; a fun fine motor skills game using stickers


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  1. Cat says

    November 7, 2016 at 10:25 PM

    What a great idea! My little one loves stickers. Will be doing this with him on our next rainy day!

    Reply
  2. Vaidehi says

    June 9, 2017 at 10:15 PM

    This is amazing activity.I would love to have some quite time. Thankyou

    Reply

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I'm Susie, a former teacher turned stay-at-home-mom. I'm all about fun, simple activities that can be set up in seconds but hold little attention spans for much longer.

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