Children develop motor skills at different rates. However, it is imperative that they do not lag behind in this important developmental milestone. Using tools such as scissors, forks, pencils, and shoe laces, are some of the activities that help build motor skills.
In a play school in Kolkata, through play and learning, we help children reach this milestone faster. Here are a few of the activities your child can practise at home to fine-tune their motor skills.
Working with play-dough helps to develop motor skills on both hands. Kneading, pulling, stretching, squeezing, pinching, and rolling, are some of the ways in which they can create cute characters or figures.
Children can discover a world of sensory excitement with different kinds of painting. Finger painting can help them to improve eye-to-hand coordination. Painting with brushes and sponges can also help children to develop fine motor skills.
Using a sponge to transfer water from one bowl to another bowl can help children use their hands to great effect. Their motor skills develop when they loosen the sponge and let it absorb the water then wring it out to get the water out on the other bowl.
Transferring beads or uncooked rice from one bowl to another is another fun activity by which children learn hand-to-eye coordination. Have a race with your child to see who fills up the empty bowl faster. If your child is finding it difficult to transfer uncooked rice, then try beads.
While this is a game we don’t play in a school setting, this playschool in Kolkata encourages you to try this game at home. Take a cup half-filled with water and get your child to transfer the water from one cup to another using the dropper. The repeated action of squeezing and letting go strengthens the hand muscles and the forearm.
This is one activity that kills two birds with one stone. At our playschool in Kolkata we have offer children the opportunity to use their hands to plant. Children can dig up the soil and put in different saplings and watch them grow. Gardening builds gross motor skills.
Stringing beads is a great way in which you can develop hand-to-eye coordination in children. Also, it’s an inexpensive way to fine-tune motor skills.
Training your children to play these 7 “games” or activities will inadvertently sharpen their fine motor skills, hand-to-eye coordination as well as gross motor skills.
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