Gross Motor Activities for Preschoolers: The Top 35! Download the FREE Active Indoor Week of Activities. Preschooler have more gross motor control than toddlers. Granted, preschoolers have much more control than a toddler does (due to improvements in their fine motor skills), and their academic level has jumped by leaps and bounds in only a year or so.. Therefore, crafting and art projects come a little easier to preschoolers.