There are many activities you can expose your children to - A lot of activities are fun and also help in developing fine motor skills…..There are basically three kinds of activities which will help to develop your child’s fine motor skills:
- Grasping - example: using a pencils, crayons, brushes etc
- Manipulating - example: scissors, kneading, picking etc
- Hand-eye co-ordination - example: writing, cutting, threading etc
Here are a few activities that can improve your child’s fine motor skills:
- Playing with play-dough
- Using scissors to cut lots and lots of paper. Make sure the kids don’t use the adult scissors but use the safety scissors.
- Picking beads or other tiny objects using tweezers.
- Finger painting
- Stack objects - cards, coins, blocks etc
- Connect the dot puzzles
- Drawing and scribbling
- Beading activities
- Doing puzzles
- Any activity which isolates finger activity - example playing a piano or typing
- Kneading dough, mixing cake batter - get them to help with your cooking…
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