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Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscles of the hands and fingers that help a child with everyday tasks such as reaching, grasping and moving objects, dressing and eating, turning pages, and using scissors, crayons, and pencils.
Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscles of the hands and fingers that help a child with everyday tasks such as reaching, grasping and moving objects, dressing and eating, turning pages, and using scissors, crayons, and pencils.
There are many different activities that work on improving these fine motor skills, that can be practiced at home.
There are many different activities that work on improving these fine motor skills, that can be practiced at home.
A. Play-Doh is a wonderful activity to strengthen small hands. Let the child press, push and pull the doh to make figures, copy patterns and letters. Have them roll the doh into small balls using their fingers to make “bird eggs”. You can “hide” pasta, buttons, or other small items in the doh for children to “find”.
A. Play-Doh is a wonderful activity to strengthen small hands. Let the child press, push and pull the doh to make figures, copy patterns and letters. Have them roll the doh into small balls using their fingers to make “bird eggs”. You can “hide” pasta, buttons, or other small items in the doh for children to “find”.
B. Paper tearing is great fine motor work for small fingers. Children can tear paper into small pieces that can be used to form a mosaic picture, or practice making letters and numbers.
B. Paper tearing is great fine motor work for small fingers. Children can tear paper into small pieces that can be used to form a mosaic picture, or practice making letters and numbers.
C. Use Lego’s or other similar blocks to let your child build their own creative designs, copy patterns, or use in math activities.
C. Use Lego’s or other similar blocks to let your child build their own creative designs, copy patterns, or use in math activities.
D. Peeling and placing stickers is an amazing fine motor workout for little fingers, that works on pincer grasp, bilateral coordination and visual scanning. Placing stickers on paper taped to the wall encourages an efficient wrist position.
E. Two fun activities for hand strengthening using a sponge and a spray bottle.
F. Another fun activity for strengthening using elastic hair bands and a water bottle.
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