How to develop fine motor skills

Motor skills are skills that enable the movements and tasks we do every day. Children develop certain motor skills at specific ages, but not every child will reach milestones at precisely the same time. A child with motor damage has trouble moving in a controlled, coordinated, and efficient way.

•Fine motor skills involve use of smaller muscles, such as grasping, object manipulation, threading, putting a plug into a socket.
Buttoning and unbuttoning clothes. Brushing teeth and flossing and feeding themselves to moving from place to place.

• Lacing activity develops hand-eye coordination. These skills are necessary for future activities like writing, pulling up a zipper, and most sports.

•Brushing teeth: teach them hygiene. It helps them to develop their eye/hand coordination and give them the concept of up/down left/ right.

•Feeding themselves develop independence, food awareness touching, grasping, spooning and squeezing. Self-feeding offers developing eaters sensory skill development, too, as they explore food’s taste, texture, smell, color, and temperature.

•Walking activities:

Forward walk.
Have the child walk to a target goal on a straight or curved path marked on the floor .Coordination and balancing are essential for child’s development. The opportunity to run in large areas, practice hopping on one foot, crawling or leaping is helping children to develop their control and coordination of their bodies.

•Backward walk.

Have the child walk through the same course backward.

•Animal walk.
Have the child imitate the walk of various animals: elephant walk (bend forward at the waist, allowing arms to hang down, taking big steps while swaying from side to side.

These walks will give the concept of directions, balance, and coordination, standing up and being able to support their body weight from one leg to the other.