awesomescopeFine motor skills enable children to perform everyday self-care activities independently. Your child can start to develop these skills from as early as 1 or 2 years old. These are the skills needed to zip, grab, hold and pinch and require the coordination of smaller muscle tissue. There are many ways that you can help your child to develop these as an independent primary school in Cambridge shares.
Jumbo Tweezers and Tongs
To help your little tyke pinch and grip, you can use child-friendly tweezers and create your own games to play. This could be a board game where you’re only allowed to use tweezers to pick up game pieces or a rice race where you compete to see who can pick up the most before times up. These can just as easily be replaced by pegs if you don’t have any tweezers to hand.
Jewellery Making
You can make handmade jewellery with your child using everyday household items like pasta, string and tissue rolls. This can help them to exercise those all-important pinching skills, their creativity and holding skills. In the summer, when there are plenty of them around, you can make daisy chains and crowns. This is a job for very nimble fingers and hand-eye coordination.
Matching Clothes Pegs
There are a ton of ways that you can use pegs. Using a sheet of paper, draw shapes all around the edges and colour them in whatever colour you like. You will need to create corresponding pegs for these shapes by colouring them in or using similar coloured pegs. Next, your child will need to match the pegs up with shapes of the same colour.
Sticker Writing
To help your child master their pinching skills, draw out a word for your child in big bold letters. This will act as a guide for them to trace with coloured stickers to create a fancy piece of art.
