Fine motor toys that help little hands build dexterity and hand-eye coordination through play. Tweezers, nuts and bolts, threading sets and pegboards, from 18 months up.
Fine motor toys: your questions answered
Pinching, threading, twisting and stacking: our fine motor skills toys turn everyday play into practice for little fingers, building the control children need for writing later on.
What are fine motor skills?
The small movements of the hands and fingers, like pinching, picking up, twisting and threading. They help with everyday tasks such as buttons and cutlery and, later on, holding a pencil.
What are the best fine motor toys for toddlers?
From 18 months, try Nuts & Bolts (32 pieces in 4 shapes and 4 colours), Jumbo Tweezers (12 in rainbow colours), Geo Pegs and Peg Board (36 giant pegs and 3 laces) or Busy Play® Nuts & Bolts (4 nuts, 12 bolts and 15 activity cards).
Which fine motor toys suit 3 and 4 year olds?
Picking up small objects with tweezers is great practice. Our Fruit Counters jar (48 counters, a tweezer and an activity guide) and Wild Animal Counters jar (30 counters and a tweezer) are for ages 3 and up. Pegs & Peg Board, with 1,000 pegs and 5 pegboards, adds pictures and patterns.
Which threading and lacing toys do you have?
Giant Wooden Lacing Beads: 24 beads and 2 laces, ages 3 and up
Giant Sequencing & Threading Buttons: 44 buttons in 5 sizes and 5 colours with 10 laces, ages 3 and up
Thread-to-Calm Cube Group Set: 24 baseboards that connect into 4 cubes, 32 laces in 4 colours and 4 string pens, ages 3 to 99
Junior String Art: 2 baseboards, 8 laces in 4 colours, a string pen and an activity guide, ages 5 and up
Do you have wooden fine motor skills toys?
Yes. Giant Wooden Lacing Beads can be threaded, sorted by colour, shape or size and used for patterns. Wooden Geometric Solids (15 shapes in natural wood, from 3 years) are smooth to hold, stack and sort.
Which construction toys help with fine motor skills?
Pushing, clicking and turning pieces all build hand strength. The Math Cubes Set of 100 (from 3 years) twist, snap and click together, Jumbo Links (200 links in 4 colours, from 3 years) are sized for small hands to connect and separate, and the My Gears® Junior Set (117 pieces and a booklet with 13 models, from 4 years) gets children pushing, pulling and turning.
Do you have eco-friendly fine motor toys?
Yes. Green-n-Learn® Sensory Shells are made from rice stems and husks, with 36 shells in 6 textures and 3 sizes, suitable from 18 months. They are a City Kids The Green Award 2025 winner.
Can I buy fine motor resources for a classroom or group?
Yes. The Rainbow Pebbles® Classroom Set has 252 pebbles and 47 double-sided activity cards, Linking Cubes 1000 has 1,000 interlocking cubes and Pegs & Peg Board has 1,000 pegs, all for ages 3 and up.