Activities to enhance your child's Fine Motor skills

Activities to enhance your child's Fine Motor skills:

1. Pick up small objects such as coins, beans, marbles, seeds, buttons, nuts and bolts. Sort them into containers of varying sizes.
3. Pick up objects (blocks, cotton balls, pom-poms, crumpled balls of paper, counters, etc. ) using various sized tongs, tweezers or clothesline hooks

3. Stack objects (i.e. coins, cards, checkers, blocks, etc.)

4. Screw and unscrew objects such as nuts and bolts, caps from jars, etc.

5. String beads onto a shoelace

6. Play with Lite Brite toy

7. Cut straight and curved lines/shapes drawn on paper, cloth, etc., with scissors

8. Type

9. Play piano

10. Shuffle cards, deal cards one by one, turn cards over

11. Roll a pencil between thumb and fingers without dropping it

12. Stick small objects into play dough or Silly Putty for him/her to pull out

13. Wind thread on a spool evenly


14. Put rubber bands around various size containers and objects

15. Move spoonfuls of small objects from one bowl to another

16. Do up buttons, zippers, hooks, etc.

17. Tie shoelaces

18. Manually sharpen pencils

19. Put keys into locks to open door

20. Put paper clips onto paper