Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Fine motor skills activities

Some fine motor skills activities to develop your child's fine motor skills and build relevant strength and muscles.

1. Play dough - strengthens muscles, strengthens fingers.
2. Cutting - hand-eye coordination and gripping skills.
3. Clothes pegs - hand-eye coordination, strengthen finger muscles and working on fine gripping skills.
4. Weaving - hand-eye coordination, focus and concentration, gripping.
5. Finger Painting - it gets them to have a sense of what their fingers can do.
6. Hammering / Paintbrush painting - these build the co-ordination between their eyes and hands and get the movements going to help with fine motor skills.
7. Picking toys / coins / flowers - When they pick these up one at a time, their little fingers need to grip and co-ordinate. Builds strength and finger muscles. Sphere: Related Content

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