Fine motor hand

We all heard that it is necessary to develop small motor skills in children, but not everyone knows how to deal with it competently.

By fine motor skills we mean thin and precise movements of the fingers.

Scientists have proved that the speech and motor centers of the brain are located very close to each other. Therefore, stimulation of the child's fingers movement favors the activation of speech. Proceeding from this, in order to teach the baby to speak, one should train both his articulatory apparatus and finger movements.

It was noticed that the motor skills of the hands interact with thinking and attention, coordination of movements and observation, as well as motor and visual memory. Precise movements of the hands and fingers will be useful in the daily life of the child in order to properly dress, draw, and then write, keep cutlery, etc. That's why the development of fine motor fingers is given so much attention.

The motor way of the hands of each child is an individual path of development. Initially, the baby takes the toy with the entire palm, then learns to take small objects with two fingers. And only with time, finger movements become more and more dexterous and confident.

Games for fine motor skills

To help the child in development, it is recommended to conduct classes on fine motor skills. Experts advise starting them at about the age of eight months.

  1. For this massage of fingers and palms is useful. Familiar to everyone from childhood games in "Soroka" and "Ladushki" - this is exactly what you need!
  2. One-year-olds should already be taught to leaf through pages in books, and younger kids do it simply to tear paper.
  3. Children are very fond of fingering beads around the mother's neck.
  4. Jars with different cereals - another useful entertainment for the baby, who will gladly touch the grains.
  5. Teach the crumb to screw and untwist lids on bottles of different sizes.
  6. An older child should already be taught to tie laces on shoes , manage with lightning and buttons on clothes.
  7. Children of any age adore modeling of plasticine, clay or dough.
  8. It is useful to teach kids drawing on a vertical plane. Children under three years old are happy to collect puzzles and lay out patterns from the mosaic. Five years can already be entrusted with scissors and teach them how to carve.

To help parents in the formation of small hand motor skills in the child, many benefits have been published, the book by E. E. Bolshakova, for example, which contains interesting variants of finger games and is in great demand among modern parents. Also on sale there are various educational toys for kids of different ages.