Fine Motor Skills
- Created by: Renee Cameron
- Created on: 20-05-16 20:13
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- Fine Motor Skills
- What are fine Motor Skills
- Fine Motor skills allow infants and young children to control and coordinate their hands and fingers.
- Examples of fine Motor skills
- Manipulative
- At first, babies use their whole hand to manipulate objects. By 12 months, they are starting to use the small muscles in their fingers.
- Gripping
- By one month, babies can grasp an adults finger. By three months, they can grasp a rattle for a short time.
- Hand-eye Coordination
- This is when a child is able to use the muscles in their fingers to pick up the construction piece and use their eyes to guide their finger movements.
- Manipulative
- Activities that promote FMS
- Gripping
- Playing with a rattle
- Holding a small toy
- Feeding self with spoon
- Manipulative
- Building with blocks
- Playing with toy farm animals
- Playing with musical instruments
- Hand-eye coordination
- Playing with jigsaw puzzles
- Writing
- Sewing
- Gripping
- Questions
- Kia is 4 years old. She is becoming independent and like to dress herself for school. Give TWO examples of the fine motor skills that Kia might use when dressing herself.
- Kia will use hand-eye coordination when she fastens the buttons on her cardigan
- Kia will use her hands to grip when she pulls on her boots or does up the fastenings on her shoes.
- Kia will use hand-eye coordination when she fastens the buttons on her cardigan
- Kia is 4 years old. She is becoming independent and like to dress herself for school. Give TWO examples of the fine motor skills that Kia might use when dressing herself.
- Writing helps to develop hand-eye coordination
- What are fine Motor Skills
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