Fine Motor
A motor skill is an action that involves the movement of muscles in your body. Gross motor skills are larger movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body - things like crawling, running, and jumping. Fine motor skills are those smaller actions like picking things up between the thumb and finger or using the toes to wriggle into sand or the lips and tongue to taste and feel objects.
A motor skill is an action that involves the movement of muscles in your body. Gross motor skills are larger movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body - things like crawling, running, and jumping. Fine motor skills are those smaller actions like picking things up between the thumb and finger or using the toes to wriggle into sand or the lips and tongue to taste and feel objects.
Fine motor skills can be defined as small muscle movements: those that occur in the finger, in coordination with the eyes. Fine motor skills do not develop overnight, but with time and practice.
Fine motor skills can be defined as small muscle movements: those that occur in the finger, in coordination with the eyes. Fine motor skills do not develop overnight, but with time and practice.
The following are activities that involve fine motor muscles:
The following are activities that involve fine motor muscles:
- scissor manipulation
- pasting
- tracing
- coloring
- self care (i.e. manipulating clothing fasteners, bathing, vacuuming, cooking)
- prewriting/writing