Showing posts with label fine motor skill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fine motor skill. Show all posts

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