Fine Motor Skills

During early childhood, children develop their fine motor skills in fairly predictable patterns. Fine motor skill involves controlling the muscles of the hands and fingers, tongue, eyes and toes. Some examples of fine motor skills are cutting, dressing and building a puzzle. Here is a comprehensive fine motor skills development checklist from birth to the …

Try these fun popsicle stick crafts with your kids in class or at home! While some of these activities might require a little more direction, most are simple and open-ended and don’t require children to follow a set of exact steps. Let kids interpret them and leave their creative mark. Using your recycled popsicle sticks …

Try out these simple playdough fine motor skills activities to strengthen those little muscles in kids’ hands. This is an important step in developing pre-writing skills and independence. Aside from fine motor development, there are many other benefits of playdough play, such as developing: Here are some fine motor playdough activity ideas to inject a …

Fine motor control is crucial in a young child’s development as it forms the foundation for skills like writing and drawing, and self-care tasks like getting dressed.  Here are some fine motor games for preschool kids that are specifically designed to strengthen small muscles. They are simple ideas for games to play, rather than regular …

Art is an integral part of every young child’s life and important for healthy development. Children are naturally drawn to creative expression. A child who is faced with some paper and pencils will seldom need encouragement to start drawing. You may be wondering how you can extend your children’s creative abilities. It’s as simple as …

In early childhood, children develop and learn to control the small muscles of their bodies, including the hands, fingers, eyes, tongue and toes. This is known as fine motor development. Fine motor movements look different at various ages. A baby, for example, has to learn to hold a spoon while eating, whereas an older child …

Painting with water. Does that even classify as a creative activity when there’s nothing to show at the end? Absolutely! Why? Like all other process art activities, this is the kind of simple, sensory activity I recommend to parents and teachers because children are always learning while they’re engaged in the process of creating, regardless …

Potato printing has always been one of my go-to preschool art activities. There are so many things you can do with some potatoes and paint, and there are also educational benefits of this activity for young children. Here are some of the reasons you should try this activity with kids, as well as some ideas …

During the early years, it is important for children to build their fine motor skills. This can be done in simple ways, through a child’s medium of learning – play. Here are some tips for how to improve fine motor skills. What is Fine Motor Skill? Fine motor skill is the ability to control the …

Why do fine motor skills matter so much in the early years and why should we make developing them a priority? Here are the reasons we encourage babies to explore objects with their little hands and why we should get our toddlers and preschoolers involved in fine motor activities daily. What are Fine Motor Skills? …

Looking for some simple ideas for fine motor activities for your little ones? While you can find many interesting, creative or theme-based activity ideas online, this is a list of the most basic and essential types of fine motor skills activities. Children need to develop their fine motor skills in order to accomplish all kinds …

There are so many fancy and pricy fine motor skills toys on the market, it can be hard to figure out what you should buy your kids, and what’s actually unnecessary. The truth is that your kids just need to play with the basics to fully develop their fine motor skills. Fine motor development is …