Developing Fine Motor Skills
One of the major undertakings of childhood is the development of fine motor skills. A child’s small muscles that control finger, thumb, and hand motion needs to strengthen as they grow and develop. With this strengthening comes the skills to feed oneself, zip a zipper, throw a ball, and move easily to more complex muscle using skills, which, in turn, provide a child with confidence and independence.
Play is a great way to build small muscles! Provide a child with play dough, blocks, beads to string, puzzles and art supplies and you have an easy way to develop important skills. More targeted practice will further increase a child’s fine motor strength.
One of my favorite ways to begin the kindergarten year is by working on fine motor skills while I teach the children proper care and use of classroom tools such as paper, glue, and scissors. I have developed a unit of easy to use activities that can be used to develop a child’s confidence by using these fine motor activities. Each category begins with novice activities and then moves forward in complexity; aiding development.
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Great practice for my students. Thanks!
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Helpful for my students that need the extra practice. Thanks!”
Table of Contents:
Cutting with Scissors:
Help the Airplane Fly
Chugging Train
Astronaut Journey
Alien Adventure
Frog Hop
In the Pond, Dragonfly
Robots I
Robots II
Vroom I
Vroom II
Cowboys I
Cowboys II
Cutting Shapes I
Cutting Shapes II
Using Glue
Glue Practice
Gluing Zig Zag
Glue a Star
Glue a Smile
Glue a Robot
Glue a Bear
Glue a Tree
Glue a House
Drawing Practice
Dot to Dot
Drawing Vertical Lines
Drawing Horizontal Lines
Drawing Curve Lines
Drawing Circles
Drawing, Cutting, & Gluing
Make a Tree
Make a Car
Make a Castle
Make a Dog
Make a Bird
Make a Person