Fine Motor Skills

Fine motor skills are crucial for connecting the dots in your child’s development.

They involve the use of small muscles in the hands, fingers and wrists, to complete tasks or activities. Fine motor skills are important in developing and supporting other areas of development such as independence with self-care and dressing. 

Activities to promote fine motor skills 

1. Finding objects in resistive materials such as putty, play dough, or sand 

2. Mr. Muncher (see our blog and Instagram post to learn how to make and use this activity)

3. Buttoning and unbuttoning 

4. Using utensil while eating

5. Opening containers 

Products We Love 

• Squigs 

• Theraputty 

• Putty with items (Soft)

• Putty with items (Med resistance) 

• Light Bright 

• Noddle Knockout 

• Yeti in my Spaghetti

• Fine motor tools set

• Spike FM Hedgehog

• Tricky Fingers

• Cuberspeed

• Clay/Playdough

• Dressing Dolls Boy

• Dressing Dolls Girl 

• Modified scissors 

• Wiki Stix

• Poke A Dot books

• Mathlink cubes

• Twist and write pencils 

• Balloon Racer 

• Operation

• Stretchy shape sorting for toddlers 
  

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