How to develop children s fine motor skills

Ways to develop children's fine motor skills:

Children at 3 months of age

The clenched fists begin to stretch and begin to focus on the hands, sometimes putting them in their mouths and nibbling. Then start using your fingers and reach for things with your eyes as you guide. Traditional silver bracelets with bells will draw more attention to the hands, a slow-turning toy pendant at the head of the bed will encourage the child to grasp, and brightly colored sounding plastic toys will attract finger movement.

6-12 months of age

This stage is the stage of skillful use of both hands, and the vision becomes sharp, and the ability to see things quickly grasp in the hand. You can guide your child's little hands to do a variety of movements: holding, putting, knocking, throwing, moving, turning, tearing, ......Switch from left hand to right hand and repeatedly touch objects to improve hand-eye coordination.

12-24 months of age

You can design a variety of props to allow your child to make full use of their fingers to do a variety of control movements, such as piercing, flipping books, pouring beans, pulling drawers, knocking down objects, stacking towers, panels, flower arrangement, and three-finger grasping ......"Skill" promotes "heart".

24-36 months of age

Children are full of enthusiasm for every learning, you can make the things your children do more complex and diverse, use building blocks to build buildings, puzzles, do art and do life affairs, so that children can enjoy their own manual labor, and deeply appreciate the value created by labor.

Parents need to establish a point of view that if they want to help their children improve fine motor coordination, they must consider this part of the content in the context of overall body coordination, rather than thinking about fine motor problems in isolation.

First, parents should help their child develop core strength, shoulder stability, and gross motor coordination. On this basis, parents can let their children improve their fine motor skills as much as possible, such as often taking their children to complete new tasks that are challenging, especially activities that require the right and left hands to do different things, such activities that require bilateral integration will help develop children's fine motor coordination.

1. Strengthen the muscles of fine movement.

Plasticine. Use plasticine to exercise control over your strength, and you can knead the plasticine into different shapes.

Clay. Shape with clay to improve fine motor coordination.

Tennis. Hold the tennis ball and improve muscle strength.

2. Coordinate eye and hand movements.

Stretch out your arms and draw circles in the air.

Follow the lines that have been drawn in a straight line or folded out.

Manipulate objects with both hands at any time to improve your fine motor skills. For example, you can push buttons, unfasten your clothes, zip up, screw screws, play games, draw, twist bottle caps, grasp threads with tweezers or use knives and forks.

3. Increase finger dexterity.

Fine motor activity requires each finger to have its own roll adjustment function, moving separately from the other hand muscles. Finger dexterity can be improved by activities such as playing the piano and typing.