Fine motor skill is the ability to move small muscle groups in the hands and fingers. It also includes skills involving wrist and forearm muscles and coordination.
For a good fine motor skill development, trunk stabilization and a good gross motor skill are required.
When it comes to fine motor development The areas that come to mind are as follows;
✏ Hand-eye coordination
It is the ability to coordinate with the hands. eg. Tracking and catching a ball coming at you
✏ Grasping
The ability to coordinate fingers to hold an object.
✏ Bilateral Coordination
Body's refers to the ability to use both sides. eg. Button up
✏ Proprioceptive Sense (Body Awareness)
Properly processing stimuli from muscles and joints. eg. Adjusting how strongly to hold the pen while writing on paper. In general, this problem can be caused by holding too tight or holding too loose.
❕The development of fine motor skills, nutrition, dressing, etc. necessary for being an independent individual. daily life activities such as using scissors, writing, etc. Academic skills, such as, depend on our active use of our hands and fingers.
Activities to Develop Fine Motor Skills
By choosing the most appropriate fine motor activities listed below, you can help children strengthen their fine motor skills.
* Play dough or at home Playing with the prepared dough is very useful for fine motor development.
* Stringing beads on the string both helps the child develop fine motor skills and allows them to develop hand-eye coordination.
* Actions such as drawing straight and curved lines with colored pencils according to age, and painting the inside of figures with definite outer borders strengthen fine hand muscles.
* The act of cutting and folding paper is another activity that will contribute to the development of fine motor skills.
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