Fine Motor

This section contains information on how to support your child with their Fine Motor skills, if you have any further information please let me know and I will add it.

Some tips to help to support learning for a child with Fine Motor difficulties:

Daily finger exercises and fine motor programmes including lots of threading, picking up small objects, cutting, buttons
Practicing pincer grip movements - use tweezers
Do lots of messy play
Use play dough, stress balls, theraputty to help to strengthen fingers and hands
Use special grips for pens and pencils
Use different methods to write - sand, rice, foam, mud
Practice memory games and give the child extra time to process instructions and what has been said
Consider audio books, recording sentences and playing them back to aid writing

Useful sources of information & activities

Isle of Wight NHS Trust - Handwriting & Fine motor skills (iow.nhs.uk)

40 Fine Motor Skills Activities - The Imagination Tree

Fine Motor Skills - The OT Toolbox

Fine Motor Activity Kit | NHS GGC

Improve Kids Fine Motor Skills with 30 Materials & Activities | HOAWG

(handsonaswegrow.com)

Thank you! (teaching2and3yearolds.com)

List of Fine Motor Play Activities | Learning 4 Kids

20+ SIMPLE HANDS ON ACTIVITIES THAT HELP BUILD FINE MOTOR SKILLS | you clever monkey

50 Fine Motor Occupational Therapy Activities at Home - Your Therapy Source

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