Different types of painting can help strengthen your child’s hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity. Finger painting gives kids an opportunity to use their hands — and to get messy. Painting with a brush helps kids learn to hold a brush and gain greater control using it as a tool. (Paint-by-number kits are great for brush painting.) To add a little sensory play to the mix, you can even try scratch-and-sniff painting.

3. Playing with sponges

A new, clean sponge, some water and two bowls are all you need for another activity to build fine motor skills. Fill a bowl with water and leave the other empty. Your child can soak the sponge in the water and then squeeze out the sponge into the other bowl. It’s a simple game that can strengthen hands and forearms. If you cut off a cube of the sponge and have a small chalkboard and some chalk, you can also do a “Wet-Dry-Try” multisensory handwriting activity.

4. Rice races

Divide a handful of uncooked rice into two plastic bowls and have an empty bowl handy. Give your child small plastic tweezers and grab a pair for yourself. Then, have a race to see who can be the first to transfer their rice into the empty bowl using the tweezers. If your child is struggling because the grains of rice are too small, you may want to begin with O-shaped cereal or pony beads.

5. Water play

Fill a cup about a quarter full of water. Give your child an empty cup and an eyedropper or a clean medicine syringe. Have your child try to transfer the water from one cup to the other by drawing the water into the dropper or syringe and then dropping or squirting it into the empty cup. You could also give your child more cups, add food coloring to the water, and make this a color-mixing experiment.

6. Gardening and planting

Digging and gardening may seem like activities more suited to building gross motor skills, but there are parts of it that require smaller muscle control, too. For instance, transferring seedlings into a garden requires hand-eye coordination skills to safely carry the smaller plant to the new hole. Your child will also need to be able to grasp a trowel to dig and to use a pincer grasp when picking up seeds to plant.

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23 GAMES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S FINE MOTOR SKILLS.

1. ROLLING THE BALLS.

Children roll small balls on the table (on the playing field, on which you can draw different paths - straight, curved, in a spiral). During the game, the ball should not slip out from under the palm of your hand and should roll exactly along the track. Tell your baby: “Naughty balls! So they try to run away. Don't let them go!" Balls can be rolled both with palms (in the first games) and with one finger (in subsequent games).

2. GAME WITH RAISINS.

Always very joyful for both mother and child and useful for the whole family. Make dough, roll it out. Invite your child to decorate the dough with raisins. Show how to take the raisin correctly (“tweezer grip” with two fingers - thumb and forefinger). Show that the raisins should be laid out throughout the dough at a distance from each other. Then bake the resulting pie and eat it with the whole family! Joy is guaranteed!

3. SORTING SMALL OBJECTS

It is very important that the baby does this either with a pinch (with three fingers) or in the “tweezer grip” method (grabbed with two fingers - thumb and forefinger).
In this case, the remaining fingers should be bent and not interfere. Show your child the correct way to do this exercise.

Mix two types of beads (or peas and beans; or shells and pebbles, or buttons of various shapes and sizes) in one box and ask for help. You can sort by color (if you mixed beads of two colors), by shape, by size. First, the baby sorts two types of objects of a sufficiently large size. Then the task becomes more complicated - smaller items are taken and sorted already into 3-5 groups (for example, beans in one box, peas in another, beads in a third, pebbles in a fourth, shells in a fifth).

Sorting always takes place in the game. For example, our chicken loves peas, and our cockerel loves beans. They need to divide their food into bowls.

Or one doll likes pasta and another likes beans. Give everyone what they love.

Sorting small items is very important in the third year of a child's life.

4. KNESSING PLASTILINE.

Before modeling, be sure to let a child of any age stretch the plasticine. This is a very useful exercise for developing fine motor skills. In this regard, ordinary domestic plasticine is much more useful than soft imported one.

5. STRINGING THE RINGS ON THE ROD OF THE PYRAMID (development of correlative hand movements).

First, the baby learns to disassemble the pyramid toy (it's easier), and only then to assemble it. Please note that even the smallest children easily remember the color sequence in the pyramid and collect it simply from memory, and not by comparing values. Therefore, if you want to teach them to compare the size of the rings and arrange them from largest to smallest in sequence, then you need a pyramid with rings of the same color!

6. SPILLING.

Use a funnel, scoop, spoon to pour different bulk solids from one container to another. You can pour sand, cereals, peas, lentils. Use different dishes - you can pour into a glass, a vessel with a narrow neck using a funnel. You can pour sand into the box with your hands, hide and look for various small toys in the sand.

7. GAMES - LACES (lace up an apple to the hedgehog's back, clothing details and other plot laces).

These games quickly bore the baby. Therefore, it is better if you have a doll whose shoes or clothes are tied with a lace. Putting on and undressing this doll in play will make it easy and fun for your little one to practice lacing.

8. EXERCISES WITH PAPER:

1) crumpling - development of arm strength (after that you get a “ball” that can be thrown into the basket from a distance),
2) tear (development of correlative movements) - we grab the sheet with the fingers of both hands and pull it in different directions. You get stripes. We put these strips in a box and make a “rain” by pouring our strips out of the box.

Important tips:

* When you offer your child paper for this exercise, you should always show him where to get the paper from. And they themselves should always take paper for this game only from this box. Otherwise, the baby will understand that you can tear everything that is around and tear books or something else you need. There is always a place for this exercise.

* Don't let us tear up old books and magazines. Any game we bring up attitude to life. And this is an example of unacceptable handling of the book. In addition, printing ink is not at all useful for young children.

* Old wallpaper rolls can be used for this exercise.

3) make applications from paper balls (crumple the paper, tear it into strips, then tear the strips into squares, roll each square on the palm into a ball, the silhouette is laid out with balls - for example, a cat, a lamb, a cloud)

4) make appliqués from pieces of paper that the baby picked. Draw a picture on a piece of paper. And stick pieces of paper on it according to the plot. White glued pieces can depict snow or clouds, blue ones - a river, yellow ones - autumn foliage of trees.

9. PUSHING SMALL OBJECTS INTO PLASTILINE (beads, seeds, shells, small stones).

This is how we can make pictures - mosaics on plasticine. And you can also help the hero of the game - for example, make a “blue river” (smear plasticine on a strip of cardboard) and build a bridge across the river (press pebbles into plasticine). And then toys will pass along this bridge and thank the baby for their help.

10. RUBBER PEAR.

Choose a small pear (available at the pharmacy). By pressing it, a stream of air is obtained, with which you can blow off a cotton wool or leaflet from the table. You can even play football, trying to drive the cotton wool into the goal with a jet of air. For children of the first year of life, a pear is not needed, this role is played by rubber toys - squeakers, playing with which the baby develops hand strength.

11. GRINDING GRINDERS.

First, the baby learns to launch the spinning top, and then the tops of large sizes. And after that, give the baby tops of a small size. Instead of a top, use any other items: pyramid rings, balls, plastic bowls, etc. It is also useful to wind clockwork toys with a key.

12. USE OF CUTLERY - SPOONS, FORKS.

The ability to independently eat with a spoon, fork, drink from a cup is also a very important component of the development of the baby and the development of fine motor skills.

13. OPENING THE OBJECT WRAPPED IN PAPER - SURPRISE - "WHAT'S THERE?"

When the baby unfolds the paper and finds the gift and plays with it, wrap it up again and hide it in another paper. And try to find again. Teach your baby to wrap - to hide an item from an older sister or brother, dad, grandmother. Let them rejoice when his surprise is unwrapped.

14. FILLING THE BOTTLE WITH SMALL OBJECTS.

Beans, pebbles, balls can be put into a plastic bottle.

To make this exercise effective, show your child how to do it correctly:

- Grab small objects with either a pinch or two fingers (thumb and forefinger) - just show how you grasp the object.

- Hold the bottle with one hand and pick up one part at a time with the other hand. It is very important to ensure that the baby takes it correctly and one by one!

- At the end, close the bottle with a cap and rattle the resulting rattle.

15. DESIGNERS.

Different designers develop fine motor skills very well. It is important to have several designers at home (but always with a DIFFERENT principle of connecting parts). It is also very useful to make handicrafts, work with clay.

16. STRINGING BEADS WITH LARGE HOLES ON THE CORD.

I saw a very good idea for stringing in the kindergarten "Solnyshko" in Moscow. The teachers of this kindergarten collect old unnecessary felt-tip pens with a plastic case. This body is cut into pieces. It turns out multi-colored "tubes" that children string on a string like beads.

You can also string spools of thread, rings for curtains, details of designers, beads made of clay or salt dough, rings from small pyramids.

17. TURN THE PAGES OF THE BOOK ONE BY.

This exercise is available to a child from the age of one. For this, the pages of the first book must be thick, made of cardboard.

Show the child a book. And put a picture on the next page - a surprise. To find it, you need to turn the page. If it is difficult for the baby, then help him by slightly lifting the page.

18. UNLOAD AND TIE KNOTS, BOWS, BRAID, UNDO AND ZIP VELCRO, BUTTONS, BUTTONS, HOOKS, ZIPPERS, REMOVE AND PUT ON HAT, PULL SOCKS, REMOVE SHOES.

Although most often in modern families the task of mastering different types of fasteners for babies is solved with the help of a developing book or rug, but this is just the first stage. Then the baby trains to do this in life, in everyday life.

The baby's clothes should have different fasteners - buttons of different shapes and sizes, buttons. It should be borne in mind that it is much easier to fasten the clasp on a rug or another person than on yourself.

The situation when a child has only velcro on clothes and shoes during the entire preschool age leads to the fact that even second-graders at the age of 8-9 are not able to dress themselves if the clothes have a different type of fastener, and cannot even lace up the laces dressing up for gym! But the lack of independence of the child and dependence on an adult directly affects his further behavior and success in life.

Already at an early age, the baby can take off and put on his hat, stretch out his arms when putting on a sweater, put on and take off mittens and gloves, pull off socks, take off shoes, put his hands in sleeves, and legs in trouser legs, take off unbuttoned panties, coat, jacket - and this is also a contribution to the development of fine motor skills of the baby, and a very big contribution.

19. LAY OUT FIGURES FROM STICKS, FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOSAIC.

20. OPEN AND CLOSE JARS (unscrew and screw caps).

To make it more interesting, hide a surprise inside by wrapping it in paper. And at the same time, the baby will practice unfolding and folding paper. What is hidden in the jar?

21. WINDING.

Winding a thick thread on a stick, on a spool, on a ball and unwinding. Winding a thick lace around your hand - your own or your mother's.

22. ROLLING THE PENCIL BETWEEN THE PALM.

First, try rolling the pencil across the table with your palm. Then show your child how to roll the pencil between the straightened palms in the hands (the pencil is in an upright position). At the end of the pencil, you can stick a picture that will “dance” - spin.

23. FINGER FOLK GAMES.

I wish you success and the joy of communicating with your children!
1. ROLLING THE BALLS.

Children roll small balls on the table (on the playing field, on which you can draw different paths - straight, curved, in a spiral). During the game, the ball should not slip out from under the palm of your hand and should roll exactly along the track. Tell your baby: “Naughty balls! So they try to run away. Don't let them go!" Balls can be rolled both with palms (in the first games) and with one finger (in subsequent games).

2. GAME WITH RAISINS.

Always very joyful for both mother and child and useful for the whole family. Make dough, roll it out. Invite your child to decorate the dough with raisins. Show how to take the raisin correctly (“tweezer grip” with two fingers - thumb and forefinger). Show that the raisins should be laid out throughout the dough at a distance from each other. Then bake the resulting pie and eat it with the whole family! Joy is guaranteed!

3. SORTING SMALL OBJECTS

It is very important that the baby does this either with a pinch (with three fingers) or in the “tweezer grip” method (grabbed with two fingers - thumb and forefinger).
In this case, the remaining fingers should be bent and not interfere. Show your child the correct way to do this exercise.

Mix two types of beads (or peas and beans; or shells and pebbles, or buttons of various shapes and sizes) in one box and ask for help. You can sort by color (if you mixed beads of two colors), by shape, by size. First, the baby sorts two types of objects of a sufficiently large size. Then the task becomes more complicated - smaller items are taken and sorted already into 3-5 groups (for example, beans in one box, peas in another, beads in a third, pebbles in a fourth, shells in a fifth).

Sorting always takes place in the game. For example, our chicken loves peas, and our cockerel loves beans. They need to divide their food into bowls.

Or one doll likes pasta and another likes beans. Give everyone what they love.

Sorting small items is very important in the third year of a child's life.

4. KNESSING PLASTILINE.

Before modeling, be sure to let a child of any age stretch the plasticine. This is a very useful exercise for developing fine motor skills. In this regard, ordinary domestic plasticine is much more useful than soft imported one.

5. STRINGING THE RINGS ON THE ROD OF THE PYRAMID (development of correlative hand movements).

First, the baby learns to disassemble the pyramid toy (it's easier), and only then to assemble it. Please note that even the smallest children easily remember the color sequence in the pyramid and collect it simply from memory, and not by comparing values. Therefore, if you want to teach them to compare the size of the rings and arrange them from largest to smallest in sequence, then you need a pyramid with rings of the same color!

6. SPILLING.

Use a funnel, scoop, spoon to pour different bulk solids from one container to another. You can pour sand, cereals, peas, lentils. Use different dishes - you can pour into a glass, a vessel with a narrow neck using a funnel. You can pour sand into the box with your hands, hide and look for various small toys in the sand.

7. GAMES - LACES (lace up an apple to the hedgehog's back, clothing details and other plot laces).

These games quickly bore the baby. Therefore, it is better if you have a doll whose shoes or clothes are tied with a lace. Putting on and undressing this doll in play will make it easy and fun for your little one to practice lacing.

8. EXERCISES WITH PAPER:

1) crumpling - development of arm strength (after that you get a “ball” that can be thrown into the basket from a distance),
2) tear (development of correlative movements) - we grab the sheet with the fingers of both hands and pull it in different directions. You get stripes. We put these strips in a box and make a “rain” by pouring our strips out of the box.

Important tips:

* When you offer your child paper for this exercise, you should always show him where to get the paper from. And they themselves should always take paper for this game only from this box. Otherwise, the baby will understand that you can tear everything that is around and tear books or something else you need. There is always a place for this exercise.

* Don't let us tear up old books and magazines. Any game we bring up attitude to life. And this is an example of unacceptable handling of the book. In addition, printing ink is not at all useful for young children.

* Old wallpaper rolls can be used for this exercise.

3) make applications from paper balls (crumple the paper, tear it into strips, then tear the strips into squares, roll each square on the palm into a ball, the silhouette is laid out with balls - for example, a cat, a lamb, a cloud)

4) make appliqués from pieces of paper that the baby picked. Draw a picture on a piece of paper. And stick pieces of paper on it according to the plot. White glued pieces can depict snow or clouds, blue ones - a river, yellow ones - autumn foliage of trees.

9. PUSHING SMALL OBJECTS INTO PLASTILINE (beads, seeds, shells, small stones).

This is how we can make pictures - mosaics on plasticine. And you can also help the hero of the game - for example, make a “blue river” (smear plasticine on a strip of cardboard) and build a bridge across the river (press pebbles into plasticine). And then toys will pass along this bridge and thank the baby for their help.

10. RUBBER PEAR.

Choose a small pear (available at the pharmacy). By pressing it, a stream of air is obtained, with which you can blow off a cotton wool or leaflet from the table. You can even play football, trying to drive the cotton wool into the goal with a jet of air. For children of the first year of life, a pear is not needed, this role is played by rubber toys - squeakers, playing with which the baby develops hand strength.

11. GRINDING GRINDERS.

First, the baby learns to launch the spinning top, and then the tops of large sizes. And after that, give the baby tops of a small size. Instead of a top, use any other items: pyramid rings, balls, plastic bowls, etc. It is also useful to wind clockwork toys with a key.

12. USE OF CUTLERY - SPOONS, FORKS.

The ability to independently eat with a spoon, fork, drink from a cup is also a very important component of the development of the baby and the development of fine motor skills.

13. OPENING THE OBJECT WRAPPED IN PAPER - SURPRISE - "WHAT'S THERE?"

When the baby unfolds the paper and finds the gift and plays with it, wrap it up again and hide it in another paper. And try to find again. Teach your baby to wrap - to hide an item from an older sister or brother, dad, grandmother. Let them rejoice when his surprise is unwrapped.

14. FILLING THE BOTTLE WITH SMALL OBJECTS.

Beans, pebbles, balls can be put into a plastic bottle.

To make this exercise effective, show your child how to do it correctly:

- Grab small objects with either a pinch or two fingers (thumb and forefinger) - just show how you grasp the object.

- Hold the bottle with one hand and pick up one part at a time with the other hand. It is very important to ensure that the baby takes it correctly and one by one!

- At the end, close the bottle with a cap and rattle the resulting rattle.

15. DESIGNERS.

Different designers develop fine motor skills very well. It is important to have several designers at home (but always with a DIFFERENT principle of connecting parts). It is also very useful to make handicrafts, work with clay.

16. STRINGING BEADS WITH LARGE HOLES ON THE CORD.

I saw a very good idea for stringing in the kindergarten "Solnyshko" in Moscow. The teachers of this kindergarten collect old unnecessary felt-tip pens with a plastic case. This body is cut into pieces. It turns out multi-colored "tubes" that children string on a string like beads.

You can also string spools of thread, rings for curtains, details of designers, beads made of clay or salt dough, rings from small pyramids.

17. TURN THE PAGES OF THE BOOK ONE BY.

This exercise is available to a child from the age of one. For this, the pages of the first book must be thick, made of cardboard.

Show the child a book. And put a picture on the next page - a surprise. To find it, you need to turn the page. If it is difficult for the baby, then help him by slightly lifting the page.

18. UNLOAD AND TIE KNOTS, BOWS, BRAID, UNDO AND ZIP VELCRO, BUTTONS, BUTTONS, HOOKS, ZIPPERS, REMOVE AND PUT ON HAT, PULL SOCKS, REMOVE SHOES.

Although most often in modern families the task of mastering different types of fasteners for babies is solved with the help of a developing book or rug, but this is just the first stage. Then the baby trains to do this in life, in everyday life.

The baby's clothes should have different fasteners - buttons of different shapes and sizes, buttons. It should be borne in mind that it is much easier to fasten the clasp on a rug or another person than on yourself.

The situation when a child has only velcro on clothes and shoes during the entire preschool age leads to the fact that even second-graders at the age of 8-9 are not able to dress themselves if the clothes have a different type of fastener, and cannot even lace up the laces dressing up for gym! But the lack of independence of the child and dependence on an adult directly affects his further behavior and success in life.

Already at an early age, the baby can take off and put on his hat, stretch out his arms when putting on a sweater, put on and take off mittens and gloves, pull off socks, take off shoes, put his hands in sleeves, and legs in trouser legs, take off unbuttoned panties, coat, jacket - and this is also a contribution to the development of fine motor skills of the baby, and a very big contribution.

19. LAY OUT FIGURES FROM STICKS, FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOSAIC.

20. OPEN AND CLOSE JARS (unscrew and screw caps).

To make it more interesting, hide a surprise inside by wrapping it in paper. And at the same time, the baby will practice unfolding and folding paper. What is hidden in the jar?

21. WINDING.

Winding a thick thread on a stick, on a spool, on a ball and unwinding. Winding a thick lace around your hand - your own or your mother's.

22. ROLLING THE PENCIL BETWEEN THE PALM.

First, try rolling the pencil across the table with your palm. Then show your child how to roll the pencil between the straightened palms in the hands (the pencil is in an upright position). At the end of the pencil, you can stick a picture that will “dance” - spin.

23. FINGER FOLK GAMES.

I wish you success and the joy of communicating with your children!

Author - Valasina Asya, candidate of pedagogical sciences, host of the Internet Workshop of developing games "Through the game - to success!", author of the site "Native Path".

How to develop fine motor skills in a child

Today we will look at what fine motor skills are, its features, ways of development using games and toys as examples, as well as the optimal age to start its development. Why is this issue getting so much attention? Let's figure it out together.

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• What is fine motor skills
• Features of the development of fine motor skills
• Games and exercises aimed at developing fine motor skills
• Fine motor activities for children
• Fine motor toys
• At what age should you develop fine motor skills
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What is fine motor skills

Fine motor skills are the sequence and precision of movements required to perform various actions with small objects using the hands, fingers and toes.

Fine motor skills can be traced in children from an early age, when they are just learning to hold a toy. First comes the development of the hand, finger movements, then the formation of speech is formed. The formation of speech through the development of fine motor skills occurs due to the influence of nerve endings on the brain regions responsible for motor skills and speech, which are located next to each other.

In addition to the main function - the development of speech - fine motor skills affect the development of mental processes: thinking, memory, imagination, ability to orientate in space.

Features of the development of fine motor skills

The ability to master fine motor skills in children does not develop by itself, that is, it does not have a hereditary factor. Of great importance in this matter are adults who, by their example, involve the child in various activities, develop him systematically and purposefully. This hypothesis was first put forward by the Russian scientist Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov. Subsequently, other scientists, doctors, teachers and specialists in various fields began to focus on this opinion as a key one.

Why is such attention paid to the development of fine motor skills? For children, it means the formation of basic skills and abilities.

1. The speech of the child is formed, which contributes to a comfortable stay in the children's team.
2. Skills of various movements develop. The child can play with toys on his own without distracting an adult.
3. Self-care skills are reinforced. The child acquires the ability to independently hold a spoon, tie shoelaces, fasten buttons and other items on clothes.
4. Social bonds are established with peers and adults through the ability to communicate clearly and maintain dialogue.
5. Willingness to study at school is formed in the aggregate of all the above reasons.

Games and exercises aimed at developing fine motor skills

The main activity of preschool children is play. We have selected for you a variety of games and exercises, among which you are sure to find something that suits you and your child.

1. Folding toys. We put a transparent container in front of the child and put small toys separately. We suggest putting the toys in the container with your right hand. Then we pour them back, and ask you to repeat the same steps with your left hand.
2. Games with cereals. In one container, mix two types of cereals, for example, rice and buckwheat. It is necessary that the child spread these cereals into different containers. You can complicate the game by adding other small items to the cereal mixture, such as beads, buttons, pebbles.
3. Paper tearing exercise. First, we draw arbitrary lines on a sheet of paper. We offer the child to tear the paper with his hands exactly along the drawn lines. You can complicate the task by depicting geometric shapes.
4. Page turning exercise. As the child grows older, instead of tearing a sheet of paper, you can offer to flip through the pages of your favorite book. This exercise also encourages the child's early interest in reading literature.
5. Smoothing out a crumpled sheet of paper. We put a crumpled sheet of paper in front of the child and offer to smooth it so that not a single bent corner remains. You can complicate the exercise by offering to perform it with one hand, while holding the sheet with your thumb.
6. Dice games. We give the task to collect various figures from cubes: a tower, a house, a car, etc. Pyramid rings are also suitable for these games. Tasks become more difficult as the child masters the construction of simple figures.
7. Lacing games. Available in various options. It can also be an unnecessary shoe that can be given to the child to lace up and unlace. It can also be a card in which holes for laces are made. In any case, the actions with these items are the same and have one goal - to teach the child to cope with the laces on their own, since this skill will be useful to him in the future.
8. Exercises with counting sticks. Please lay out geometric shapes on the table. First, the child performs tasks according to the model, and then independently according to verbal instructions. An additional plus of this exercise is the formation of elementary mathematical representations.
9. Games with covers. Here you can offer various containers and vessels with lids that the child will independently twist and unscrew. And if you tell your child that you can’t cope without him, you will give a motive to become your main assistant.
10. Finger painting in the sand. Invite the child to draw with all fingers alternately geometric shapes or any other pattern that he wishes. Interaction with sand also has a positive effect on the central nervous system.

Lessons for the development of fine motor skills in children

In addition to games for the development of fine motor skills, you should engage in a variety of activities that children will undoubtedly like:

• modeling from plasticine, clay or dough;
• drawing or coloring with paints, pencils, crayons;
• construction from sets of designers, paper, cubes;
• crafts made of paper, natural or waste materials;
• stringing beads, buttons on a string;
• picking up mosaics;
• ball games;
• peeling fruit, eg tangerines;
• work with special manuals-copybooks.

Fine motor toys

What could be better for a child than a new toy? Only a toy that contributes to its comprehensive development.

1. Massage embossed foot mats. Ideal to use after waking up to tone the body. You can purchase a puzzle mat that he can assemble and disassemble on his own. If you want to focus on the development of cognitive skills, you can purchase a rug with numbers or letters.
2. Magnets. Place the magnets on the refrigerator or a special magnetic board. The child will definitely be interested in them, and will independently move them on the surface. Depending on the goal pursued, you can purchase magnets of various shapes, for example, in the form of numbers.
3. Kinetic sand. Tactilely pleasant not only for children, but also for adults. Such sand does not get your hands dirty, so it will become a favorite toy for children and an assistant for adults.
4. Easel for drawing. There are options for easels on which you can draw on both sides: on the one hand - with special crayons, and on the other - with paints.
5. Massage balls. Perfect for finger games. Thanks to the spikes, they actively affect the areas of the palms and fingers.
6. Constructors. You can choose a set from any manufacturer. You should focus on safety for the child, age and gender. In addition to the development of fine motor skills, it stimulates the development of modeling and design skills.
7. Finger Theatre. It combines the possibilities of the comprehensive development of the child. In addition, it improves the expressiveness of speech, memory, imagination, acting skills. This option should definitely be used if you notice that one hand is more developed than the other.
8. Busyboard. Recently a popular manual for the development of fine motor skills. It is a wooden structure, on which various objects are attached on both sides. These can be laces, caps, locks, switches, gears, etc. Such a toy will help parents, as the baby can play it independently and safely.

At what age should one develop fine motor skills?

It is important to pay attention to the motor skills of the hands for at least a few minutes every day.

• From nine months of age, pick up large items such as beads or pyramid rings.
• At the age of 1 year, you can organize games with natural materials: sand, clay, cones, pebbles, etc.
• After 2 years, the baby will be happy to do finger exercises with an adult. Saying various nursery rhymes along with hand movements will help to teach hand and tongue coordination. And also better remembered by the child himself.
• After 3 years, paper exercises should be used. Usually, by these years, the baby has mastered the skill of working with scissors, so it becomes possible to model applications.
• And from the age of 4-6, origami is mastered as one of the most difficult types of paper games.

At whatever age you are engaged in the development of fine motor skills in children, it is necessary to organize this activity so that it brings not only benefit, but also pleasure to the child.

Conclusions

In the age of technological progress and the early use of phones, tablets and computers by children, other aspects of child development are regressing.

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