Developing Fine Motor Skills
Activities to develop fine motor skills can often be hard to find because toys today are geared towards entertainment. However, when you step back and look at educational products you will find that educational products can be just as entertaining and sometimes even more rewarding than any toy in the house.
AJ loves playing with me in the morning before he goes to school (we switched him to the afternoon after winter break) and we recently put all of his toys away because he was just way too overstimulated. It has worked out to both of our benefits. He not only is more calm but he is also more interactive with me. He is able to chose from his BoardMaker flip pictures from a list of activities that he can do and he loves the “freedom” of having a choice.
Some Fine Motor Activities that he gets to chose from:
*Handwriting (I printed and laminated these so that we could use them over and over again)
*Pegs He not only has to stack or create the designs but he also has to string them, match colors, and use fine motor skills when cleaning up.
* Lite-Brite Cube
*Cut and Paste Activities like this one. Yes, I am a little anxious with cutting but I do let him try it when he is calm.
*Tracing can be a fantastic fine motor skill and can be fun for kids while you are making dinner or lunches. It is a great activity for AJ after he comes home from school and needs to calm down.
*Making snow balls with old newspaper.
*Using a screw driver to take batteries out of toys (this is a favorite).
*Lacing Rice Pasta onto shoe strings.
*Turning over memory cards without bringing them to the edge of the table because that would be cheating…
*Playing “hit the balloon” with one or two fingers, tracking the balloon with the eyes across the room.
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