Fine Motor

Fine motor skills involve the muscles in the fingers and hands to support activities and functional tasks such as play/engage with toys, writing, school tools use, dressing, self-feeding, and self care tasks. 

Placing a toy or object at midline and allowing your student to reach for the item is a great way to observe and encourage a hand dominance when engaging in a fine motor activity. 

Here is a list of activities you could try to encourage fine motor skills with your student: 

• Picking beads/small toys out of playdough

• Ripping or crumpling paper

• Color-crayons, pencils, sidewalk chalk, finger paint, tec...

• Build with cubes/blocks

• Use tongs, tweezers or clothes pins to pick up small items

• Place a small snack item on the table for your student to pick up with their fingers

• Threading to make a necklace or a bracelet with cereal or beads

• Inserting coins into a piggy bank

• Use glue, paint brush, hole punch, or scissors to make a craft

• Peeling off stickers

• Dress a baby doll 

• Putting pegs into a pegboard

• Play games-connect 4, pick up sticks, battle ship

• Engaging in puzzles