Fine-Motor Skills

Heart Prints Activity for an individual child Age group: 18-40 months Duration of activity: 15 minutes Materials: Red and pink tempera paint Pie tins Kitchen sponges Scissors Clothespins White construction paper or bond paper This activity will ...

Fun Sign LanguageDirections Involve your child in making up signals with their hands, arms, and fingers. Each signal should stand for a word or expression. Keep it simple and see how many your child can come up with and remember. This could becom...

Tweezers and TongsMaterials Tweezers Kitchen tongs Variety of small and very small objects Empty egg cartonsDirectionsSelect various objects that require children to use tongs or tweezers to pick them up. Examples are: cereal, cut-up raw vegetabl...

Let's Move!Directions:At an early age, children associate how they move to words that describe the movements they make. For example: run, lie down, stand up, walk. This activity will help your child build his movement vocabulary. Practice the fo...

Fine-Motor Skill Development: Tips for ParentsChildren experiencing movement difficulties require more time to learn a skill. They need constant feedback and quite often need to be physically taken through movements (kinesthetic assistance). Some...

Keystroking ActivitiesToday's young children are a generation of computer-literate whiz-kids, in which computer technology is becoming more and more a part of their everyday life--and at an earlier age! The basic skill of "keystroking" is a fine-...

Observing Fine-Motor Difficulties in ChildrenObservable BehaviorsHere is a list of observable behaviors of children with fine-motor difficulties. Difficulty with writing; poor grasp leading to poor form, fluency, and frequent discomfort when writ...

Why Teach Fine Motor?Children explore the environment by moving and interacting with it. By manipulating objects and gathering valuable information about the physical characteristics, this eventually provides perceptual information necessary to m...

Fine-Motor CoordinationFine-motor coordination involves the ability to control the small muscles of the body and is usually defined as the ability to coordinate the action of the eyes and hands together in performing precise manipulative movement...

How can you go about getting your child's school to perform motor skills testing? ...

It is very possible to have a gifted child who is verbally/linguistically gifted, but delayed in fine motor skill development. ...

Find tips on how to strengthen your child's fine-motor skills. ...

A mother is concerned when her child's teacher talks about her son's "sloppy coloring and handwriting." ...