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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This doesn’t bother me at all. I love the little projects my kids do at preschool! At this age it’s more about developing fine motor skills than expressing creativity. Plus I have art supplies at home if they just want to draw something. Of all the things to worry about, this pretty low on my list.[/quote]

Right- the ones I see include specific cutting and taking small pieces and pasting them. I used to totally agree about the creativity, but my kid would literally just scribble for 15 seconds but needs additional fine motor work. Even with the OT he does very specific activities that focus on fine motor development [/quote]

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Sure, it’s great to give kids free art exploration time. But like this person’s kid, my boys just don’t care much for art and would just make a few lines on the paper before moving on to another activity. However, they really need the fine motor work. So I’m grateful to the teachers for giving activities that build those skills.[/quote]

Hopefully the teachers are giving them plenty of fine motor practice all day. I had scissors and scrap paper in my sensory bins, sometimes straws or other objects. Playdough helps immensely with fine motor skills. I had small building manipulatives that the kids who didn’t love art could work with. Picking up smaller blocks to put them on top of each other. Rubber bands and peg boards. In the science corner they had tweezers and squeeze bottles. There were writing options for the students who wanted to write with thick pencils, plenty of paper or laminated sheets with whiteboard markers. It’s not just in art that the students developed fine motor skills. I often had boys who didn’t enjoy art, and they only times I made them were when it was Mother’s Day or something ;)

When you see a child consider their art and plan and make decisions based on their own creation; it’s truly a beautiful thing!! [/quote]

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