Hello all, Ms. Heduan has kindly put together a list of activities which may help improve your child's fine motor skills. Any questions please let us know. Thank you !
- Shaving foam on a paper plate/tray , Use finger to write letters /words .
- Parents draw various types of lines (zig-zag, curved etc), child traces over using markers, crayons etc and then cuts along the lines.
- Dot to dot: Parent draw pairs of different coloured dots on a page. Vary the distance and end/start point. Child has to draw a line from green to green, red to red etc.
- Dot painting using cotton buds and paint. Child could go over cvc words or the outlines of shapes using dots. Alternatively, they could fill in shapes, create patterns etc.
- Shoebox/box and clothes pegs. Child has to place 20 pegs around the sides of the box as quickly as possible. Parent times the child. Child attempts to improve their time on their next attempt.
- Child scrunches a square/rectangular/triangular piece of tinfoil into a ball. Child then unscrunches the ball to reform the shape.
- Child tears tinfoil and covers various pasta shapes.
- Threading using penne pasta and string.
- Collages using newspapers, magazines, glue and scissors. Possible themes: people, colours, cars, animals, food etc.
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