Eye hand coordination is an ability to perform movements with the hands while being guided by the eyes. It is an important skill for functioning in your daily life. It is important for playing sports, reading and writing.
Some examples of eye hand coordination.
- Grasping an object.
- Batting the ball in a game.
- Tying your shoe laces.
- Busing your hair.
How can you improve your child’s coordination?
- Threading and lacing is essential for being able to draw, write, do up buttons, tie shoelaces, open lunch boxes and learn language skills and names of colour.
- Puzzles are one of the best activity that develop shape recognition, problem solving and logic concentration, goal setting, patience and a sense of achievement.
- Cutting and sticking
Give your child different types of papers such as tissue paper, newspaper and let them cut in to strips or shapes to develop strengthens hand muscles.
- Finger painting
This activity provide sensory experience as well as strengthening finger and hand muscles. Learning about color, shape and spatial relationships. Using hearing, touching, and smelling senses.
- Building with blocks and Lego are great for building attention span take turns and share materials, develop new friendships, become self-dependent ,develop self-esteem, creativity imagination and problem solving.
