Sensory & Fine Motor Art Class

A fine motor class for toddlers and their grown-up

A weekly 90-minute class for children aged 1.5 to 3, together with a parent or caregiver. Each week your toddler works on one skill their hands are busy learning right now: pinching, tearing, threading, squeezing, rolling. You sit beside them the whole time.

We care about the doing, not a perfect result. Even so, every child takes home what they made.

🕒 How a session runs

1. We start in a circle with a welcome song to wake up fingers and hands.
2. Then the main work. Each child has their own place at the table, materials set out and ready, and you beside them. The activity changes every week and always practises one specific skill: sorting with wooden tongs, tearing, threading, kneading, sticking, stamping.
3. Some weeks we add a practical life activity with real tools and real food. Cutting a banana, peeling an apple, squeezing an orange. Small tasks toddlers watch adults do all day and are keen to try themselves.
4. We tidy up together and close with a goodbye song.

🍂 What we make this term

October is autumn in the city. Sorting chestnuts and pinecones with wooden tongs and stamping leaves, tearing paper canals and filling wooden boats, kneading spiced pumpkin dough, and sticking windows onto Amsterdam canal house silhouettes.

November follows Sinterklaas and Amsterdam traditions. Decorating lampions for Sint Maarten, threading garlands for the steamboat, slotting carrots into shoe boxes for Ozosnel, and shaping balls of modelling dough.

December closes the term with stamping and tying gift sacks for Pakjesavond, and pinecone ornaments to take home.

📍Practical

- Ages 1.5 to 3 years
- One parent or caregiver per child, always present
- Maximum 6 children per session
- 10 sessions, Thursdays at 10:30, 8 October to 10 December
- 90 minutes per session
- Aprons and all materials provided. Dress for mess.

🧑 Your guide

Lorena Delgado is an IMI-certified Montessori Assistant (0 to 6 years), a pedagogy student, and an experienced early childhood guide who loves supporting a toddler's natural development.