Looking for ways to support your little ones hand muscles at home? Try our top 6 fine motor activities that you can do at home.
These are 6 of the most simple activity ideas to exercise fine motor skills indoors or outdoors, whatever the weather.
Threading. Beads, buttons, pasta, cheerios, anything that can be threaded onto a string. This works their pincer grip which is essential for holding a pencil. For a double whammy add in a pair of tweezers to use to pick up the beads.
Stickers! One of our favourite activities is to choose a cardboard box from Bunnings (any size is fine!) and decorate it with stickers. Then use it in a game of post office, as toy storage or as a gift box for an upcoming birthday. The way children have to use their hands to peel stickers and stick them to something really exercises the muscles.
Chalk A great way to get the kids outside and using their hands. Chunky chalk is great for getting to grips with holding a writing tool as it's nice and big to hold on to and there's no right or wrong way to do it. We get ours from Officeworks.
Playdough or Clay These are amazing tools for fine motor because they encourage the squeezing motion, pinching, rolling
Hand games These really work on co-ordination of the muscles in the hands and don't need anything to get started! Thumb war, pass the squeeze, rock paper scissors, the classics are the best!
Drawing and painting I've put these together because the set up that we use is similar. Provide a variety of sizes of pens, pencils or paint sticks with a piece of A3 paper or butchers paper roll and let them go wild. Chunky, mini, thin, triangle, anything that children can grasp onto and make marks with. Same goes for paint - different sized brushes and either water, water+food colouring or real paint. You could also use something smaller like a cotton bud to draw with for extra challenge.
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