Why is it necessary to develop fine motor skills in children? Development of fine motor skills in children

The early development of a child always includes the development fine motor skills, i.e. learning to hold and operate it small objects. There are different ways to develop fine motor skills of the hands: each parent is free to choose what suits both him and the child. Below we discuss the main nuances associated with the development of fine motor skills, answer the question of why it is necessary to develop it, and also present games that are sure to captivate your baby.

Why and when do you need to develop fine motor skills?

Scientists have long proven that the development of fine motor skills gives impetus to the development of speech in a child. Those children with whom their mothers regularly play games, who are given a large number of objects of various textures to study, begin to speak earlier than their peers who are denied the aforementioned entertainment. In addition, such children absorb information faster (tactile sensations are associated with brain activity), learn more easily, and begin to write faster. Quite often the development tactile sensations used as preparation for school.

From all of the above, we can conclude that fine motor skills in a child should be developed as early as possible. Exist finger games, which can be played almost from birth.

How to develop fine motor skills in children of different years?

Each age has its own games. You can’t argue with this statement, so it’s important not to rush things and consistently offer your child those toys that are appropriate for his age.

From birth to six months

At this time, the baby is actively developing tactile skills on his own. Starting from 3-4 months, the child consciously reaches out to toys, feels rattles, his mother’s hands, and examines his fingers. You can offer your baby different games.

• Hand massage - gently knead children's fingers, stroke them, gently twist them. You can accompany the process with rhymes and jokes.
• Give your child yours thumbs and try to lift the baby. The more often you do this exercise, the stronger the baby will grab your hands.
• Offer your baby paper books or plain sheets of paper. Show that they can be torn, crushed, twisted.
• Rattles, balls and toys with a ribbed surface are excellent helpers in early development baby.

From 7 months to a year

During this time, you can use the same materials and games as before six months. You can add a few others.

• Pyramids - they will introduce the child to the concept of size and develop the ability to quickly string rings onto a rod.
• Cereals, beans, pasta - everything you find in the kitchen. It is important to supervise your child at all times to prevent him from swallowing foreign objects.
• Fabric and bags made from it with various fillings.
• Constructor.
• Cubes.

From one to two years

The number of toys to develop fine motor skills should be gradually increased. Cereals and bags of grain remain interesting and useful for playing, but the baby is getting older and smarter, so with the existing toys you can come up with new games that require a logical and thoughtful approach.

You can also add unusual attributes to your gaming collection.

• Water. Ask your child to pour water from one bowl to another, spilling as little liquid as possible.
• Laces and lacing.
• Beads, buttons, clothespins and other household items.
• Chinese chopsticks.
• Puzzles and mosaics.
• Drawing.

From 2 to 3 years

A three-year-old child is already a complete person. This is not a baby who puts everything into his mouth, exploring the world in this way. At 2-3 years old, you can play fairly serious games with your child that require attentiveness, responsibility, and a clear sequence of actions.

• Working with the dough.
• Finger gymnastics.
• Origami.
• Working with scissors and colored paper.

A construction set for children is not only fashion toy, but also a wonderful material for studying simple everyday truths, as well as a way to develop intelligence and thinking while playing.

When choosing a construction set, follow the rule: the smaller the child, the larger the details. For the little ones, it is better to purchase a construction set consisting of large elements that will definitely not fit down the little one’s throat if he wants to taste them.

Games with a constructor can be different. You can “build” with your child buildings and objects of only certain colors (learning colors), you can invite your child to count the parts (learning counting). One way or another, the designer will develop your child’s fine motor skills and improve his intelligence.

Modeling for the development of tactile sensations

Plasticine is known to everyone. This universal remedy, which is used both in kindergartens and at home and allows you to keep your baby occupied for a while. Almost all children love to sculpt from plasticine, but this is not what we will talk about below.

There is a safer, non-traditional, but very interesting way develop fine motor skills in your baby with the help of modeling. This salty dough. It is prepared very simply and quickly from products that are available in any home, and at the same time, salted dough is completely safe (although it is edible, a child is unlikely to eat it). In addition, crafts made from dough can be saved as souvenirs, as they harden naturally(or they are baked in the oven), unlike plasticine masterpieces.

Salt dough recipe

You will need:

• flour – 250 grams;
• salt – 250 grams;
• water – 125 ml.

Mix all ingredients and knead the dough. To make it more elastic and not stick to your hands, you can add a spoon to it vegetable oil. There are also recipes with the addition of glue, starch and even cream. However, there is no need for unnecessary frills. The simplest dough made from flour and salt is great for children's crafts.

Show your child several sculpting techniques: rolling, flattening, kneading, etc. Let the baby work with his whole hand, sculpting small details. This will perfectly develop the flexibility of his fingers and fine motor skills.

Drawing teaches your child how to hold a brush correctly, which will subsequently help him master spelling quickly and without problems.

For drawing you can use paints and brushes, pencils and felt-tip pens, crayons and pastels. Or you can invite your child to draw with his hands! This exercise will also be very useful for the development of fine motor skills. But keep in mind that it is better to paint with your fingers using edible paints or, in extreme cases, paints without harmful substances.

You can create your own edible paints. Use baby puree or semolina porridge, and use either food coloring or vegetable and fruit juices as a coloring pigment.

You can start playing finger games from birth. First, the mother will make movements with the baby’s arms. But soon the baby himself will understand what’s what and will begin to move his fingers to the beat of a song or rhyme.

Finger games are an excellent exercise through which you can accelerate the development of fine motor skills, stimulate brain function, and also lay the foundation for teaching your child to write.

1. Babies up to 6-7 months can have a finger massage. Mom rubs each finger, saying his name. For example, you can use a nursery rhyme: Get up, Bolshak! Get up, Pointer!

   Get up, Seredka!

   Get up, Little Orphan,

   And little Eroshka!

   Hello, palm!

2. By the age of one year, a child can already understand what is required of him. At this age, the mother acts only as an instructor. She shows the child the basic movements that the child must repeat. As a rule, the baby’s fingers represent animals or people. You can also read a poem to the baby and make basic movements to it. Clap your hands, join your fingers into a pinch, clench your palm into a fist.
3. With a child 3 years old and older, you can arrange a shadow show. It is better to select spectators from relatives so that the child will be interested in “rehearsing” the performance. You can also use various objects for finger exercises: nuts, beads, buttons, fabric.

Toys for developing fine motor skills

For clarity, below is a general list of toys that help develop tactile sense of touch and “teach” the baby’s fingers to move in accordance with the nerve impulses of the brain.

1. Pyramid.
2. Cubes.
3. Ribbed rattles.
4. Balls of different sizes.
5. Sorter.
6. Books with raised pictures.
7. Constructor.
8. Abacus.
9. Puzzles.
10. Labyrinths.
11. Frame with lacing.
12. Beads.
13. Button toys.

Development of fine motor skills using the Montessori method

In the method of Maria Montessori great attention focuses specifically on the development of fine motor skills of the hands. There are many games in her recordings that contribute to this. Below are the most interesting of them.

"Like an adult"

Give your child a sponge and some dirty cups. Let the baby, imitating his mother, wash the dishes. Does this seem easy to you? For inflexible children's fingers, it is quite difficult to hold a cup in the water and not drop it; this exercise will also be an excellent training for finger flexibility and the development of fine motor skills of the hands.

Buttons

Give your child a sweater, jacket or other item that has buttons, hooks and other fasteners. You can make a special trainer for your baby: combine several fasteners on one thing. This exercise is good for fine motor skills and also trains self-care skills.

Sorting

Take two bowls. Place peas and buckwheat on the table (pasta and beans - choose any cereal). Ask your child to sort one from the other and put it in two bowls.

Is it too reminiscent of the task that the stepmother came up with for Cinderella? Maybe. But this task is an excellent workout for little children's fingers.

Just don't overdo it. There is no need to force a child to sort through cereals if he is tired of it or is tired.

Drawing on flour

Pour flour (semolina, sand, sugar) onto the table. Invite your baby to draw on the sprinkled surface. The advantage of this type of drawing is that the drawing can be easily erased and started again.

Shreds

Take several pieces of fabrics with different textures. Wool, large knit, velvet, silk. Invite your child to touch each one and describe his feelings.

Lacing

Ordinary laces are very good for developing fine motor skills in children. You can purchase a special frame with lacing, or you can teach your baby using his own shoes as an example.

Sponge

Ask your little one to transfer water from one bowl to another using a regular dish sponge. In this case, the baby should try to ensure that as few drops as possible get on the table. It's not only good exercise for fingers, but also training in accuracy.

Collector

Scatter small objects on the floor and ask your child to collect them in a bowl or bag. You can also ask your baby to say the color or “name” of each item.

Magician

Place several items in a hat or opaque bag. The child must feel what is in the bag by touch. Ask the baby to pull out this or that thing. Before doing this, the child will study things with his fingers for a long time.

Conclusion

These and many other exercises and games are designed to develop the child’s ability to control his own hands, as well as enrich the list of his skills and abilities, and teach him to think logically.

It is very important to regularly engage with your baby, but not to bother him. All lessons should be taught in game form.

Pridvorova Vera Sergeevna, teacher of MBDOU Central Children's Education Center - DS No. 53 "Yolochka", Tambov

How often do we hear the expression “fine motor skills”. What are fine motor skills? Physiologists use this expression to mean the movement of the small muscles of the hands. At the same time, it is important to remember about hand-eye coordination, since the development of small hand movements occurs under the control of vision. Why is it so important to develop fine motor skills in a child’s hands? The fact is that in the human brain the centers that are responsible for speech and finger movements are located very close. By stimulating fine motor skills, we activate the areas responsible for speech. And, in addition, in the future the child will need these skills to use movements to draw, write, dress, etc.

You need to start working on the development of small arm muscles from a very early age. Already infant you can massage your fingers (finger gymnastics), thereby influencing active points associated with the cerebral cortex. In early and early preschool age, you need to perform simple exercises, accompanied by a poetic text, and do not forget about developing basic self-care skills: buttoning and unbuttoning buttons, tying shoelaces, etc.

And, of course, in older preschool age, work on developing fine motor skills and coordination of hand movements should become important part preparation for school, in particular for writing.

Fine motor skills are one of the aspects of the motor sphere, which is directly related to the mastery of objective actions, the development of productive activities, writing, and speech of the child. (M. M. Koltsova, N. N. Novikova, N. A. Bernstein, V. N. Bekhterev, M. V. Antropova, N. A. Rokotova, E. K. Berezhnaya). The formation of motor functions, including subtle hand movements, occurs in the process of the child’s interaction with the objective world around him. When we perform precise actions, the wrists, making the necessary movements in different planes, regulate the position of our hands. To a small child it is difficult to twist and rotate the wrist, so he replaces these movements with movements of the entire arm from the shoulder. To small movements were more accurate and economical, so that they do not require excessive energy expenditure from the child, he needs to gradually master the different movements of the wrist.

What exercises will help your child improve his skills?

1. Finger gymnastics.

“Finger games” are the staging of any rhymed stories or fairy tales using the fingers. Many games require the participation of both hands, which allows children to navigate the concepts of “right”, “left”, “up”, “down”, etc. Children over 5 years old can decorate games with a variety of props - houses, cubes, small objects, etc. .d.

It is recommended to use exercises in which each finger is trained separately. (after all, in the cerebral cortex there is a separate projection area for each finger), movements are necessary for tension, relaxation, and stretching. Finger movements must be performed with optimal load and amplitude. Sluggish, careless training has no effect.

It is necessary to remember that finger training is used as a means of increasing the tone of the cerebral cortex, and to be careful when working with children with increased convulsive readiness. Finger training includes exercises: static (holding a certain position with the fingers), dynamic (development of finger mobility, switching from one position to another), relaxing (normalizing muscle tone) etc. However, often the ill-conceived artificial use of these exercises does not arouse children’s interest in them and does not provide a sufficient corrective effect. The effectiveness of classes and children’s interest in them can be increased if finger gymnastics exercises are carried out while reading rhymes, fairy tales, stories to children, working with them on nursery rhymes, jokes, any speech material. While listening to it, children, together with an adult, “stage” the content of the listening material using finger movements and images of characters, their actions, etc. Children learn the finger movements learned in such classes in the future in independent dramatization games, improving the motor skills of their fingers. For the versatile harmonious development motor functions of the hand require training of three types of components: compression, stretching, relaxation - following medical terminology - a combination of alternating contraction and relaxation of flexors - flexor muscles and extensors - extensor muscles.

For getting maximum effect finger exercises should be designed in such a way that they combine compression, stretching, and relaxation of the hand, and also use isolated movements of each of the fingers.

The duration of finger training depends on the age of the children (younger age up to three or four years), the recommended time is from 3 to 5 minutes, in middle and senior preschool age - 10-15 minutes a day). Some of the exercises in which the table surface was used are performed while sitting at the table. Thus, finger exercises, when skillfully included in the context of various activities and household chores, can contribute to the development in children of elements of their motor behavior determined by the play, everyday or educational situation.

2. Games with cereals, beads, buttons, small stones.

These games have an excellent tonic and healing effect. Children are asked to sort, guess with their eyes closed, roll between the thumb and forefinger, press alternately with all the fingers of both hands on the table, while trying to make rotational movements. You can teach your child to roll two walnuts or pebbles with the fingers of one hand, with the fingers of one hand, or with a hexagonal pencil between two palms. Various stringing exercises are excellent for developing the hand. You can string anything that can be strung: buttons, beads, horns and pasta, dryers, etc. You can make beads from cardboard circles, squares, hearts, tree leaves, including dry ones, and rowan berries. You can invite children to lay out letters, silhouettes various items from small objects: seeds, buttons, twigs, etc. All activities using small objects must be carried out under the strict supervision of adults!

3. Sand therapy.

The malleability of sand provokes the desire to create a miniature out of it real world. A sand painting created by a child is a creative product. The main emphasis is on the child’s creative self-expression, thanks to which, on an unconscious-symbolic level, internal tension is released and ways of development are sought.

Find big box, fill it halfway with washed and dried river sand. Show your child the toy that you will hide in this sand, and do this when he turns away. You can gradually increase the number of hidden toys.

Invite your child to model a sand projection. For example, in accordance with the child’s experience, ask him to depict a zoo, pets, forest, etc. Let the child select necessary materials and models the space.

Design and simulate a sand projection with different landscapes (mountains, reservoirs, plains, etc.) based on lexical topics familiar to the child (eg wild animals). Use figurines of pets to construct projections. Invite your child to correct the picture. The child himself must choose the correct animal figures and place them in their characteristic landscapes.

Presentation of a fairy tale familiar to the child. The child independently chooses the props and builds the scenery. The fairy tale can be played out entirely according to the plot, or a familiar plot can be taken as a basis, and the child comes up with and plays out his own ending to the fairy tale.

4. Cutting with scissors.

Particular attention is paid to mastering basic cutting techniques - straight cutting skills, ability to cut various shapes (rectangular, oval, round). Obtaining symmetrical shapes when folding accordion-folded paper (round dance) or diagonally (snowflakes), children must learn that they are not cutting out a whole shape, but half of it. Before you start cutting out the silhouette, you should think about where, from what angle, in which direction of the sheet to direct the scissors, i.e. plan the upcoming action. The game of cutting out patterns from folded pieces of paper has a remarkable property: no matter how clumsily a child cuts, he will still get a pattern that vaguely resembles a snowflake or a star.

5. Applications.

Children can make compositions - appliqués - from cut out figures. To begin with, it is more convenient to cut geometric shapes and figures from colored magazines, and with an adhesive pencil, fix them on the sheet. If the child is still small and you are afraid to give him scissors, let him tear pictures from a magazine or newspaper with his hands - whatever happens; and you will paste the torn pieces onto a blank piece of paper, giving them some shape. It can make a meaningful collage.

6. Working with paper. Origami. Weaving.

The development of precise movements and memory is helped by weaving rugs from paper strips, folding boats, and paper animal figures.

The material for weaving can be willow twigs, straw, veneer, as well as paper, thin cardboard, fabric, braid, ribbon, etc. The child can be asked to fold a sheet of paper in half, make a series of even cuts with scissors without going beyond the outline, then cut thin strips of a different color and in a certain way, following the pattern, weave them between the cuts of the main part of the rug.

From paper and cardboard you can make toys for playing with water and wind, Christmas decorations, attributes for role-playing games, dramatization games, fun toys, gifts and souvenirs. It is necessary to introduce children to tools for processing paper and show techniques for bending and folding paper.

Currently, origami is becoming increasingly popular among teachers and psychologists. And this is no coincidence. The educational potential of origami is very high.

The topics of origami are very diverse, ranging from simple to complex. To successfully learn how to make origami toys with children in a playful way, you need to learn the designations of the blanks (basic forms) and symbols (many books on origami techniques are now on sale). In the future, this will facilitate production and reduce the time it takes to complete the toy. To memorize and reinforce basic shapes with children, you can use the following games and exercises: “Turn the square into another shape”, “Guess what the square turned into?”, “Where is whose shadow?”, “Name correct form", "Define basic form" and etc.

In origami classes, it is effective to use fairy tales-tips; they develop interest, facilitate production and memorization when performing toys, because mechanical tasks (draw a fold line, fold in half, fold the corner to the center) are replaced by meaningful, from the point of view of the plot and game concept, action. The equipment used is sheets of paper of different colors and ready-made books using origami technique.

7. Modeling from plasticine, clay and salt dough.

You can make single parts or several at once and combine them into compositions. You can sculpt small parts yourself, and your baby can assemble the finished composition.

We make sausages, rings, balls; We cut the plasticine sausage with a plastic knife into many small pieces, and then mold the pieces again. From each small piece we make a cake or a coin. (You can press a real coin or a flat toy onto the cake to make an imprint.)

We paste the resulting cakes over jars, twigs, etc. etc. Laying out a given pattern from plasticine with balls, sausages on plywood or a sheet of cardboard.

Pasting a glass bottle with plasticine and giving it the shape of a vase, teapot, etc.

Modeling of geometric shapes, numbers, letters.

8. Laces - why are they?

Nowadays there are many different games with laces on sale. In general, they can be divided into several types. First of all, the lacing is story-driven. The child is offered an “unfinished” picture (image of a hedgehog, squirrel, Christmas tree, vase with a bouquet, house), to which you need to lace the missing parts: mushrooms, fruits and nuts, New Year's toys, flowers, windows, etc. The second type of lacing: buttons, shoes, cylinders or any other, made of wood or soft safe material, solid objects in which holes are made for the laces. They come with strings and instructions for creating artistic weaves on the base toy. Finally, the third type of lacing: parts of houses, books, etc. made from fabric, which are proposed to be connected using laces to create a solid soft toy or a soft story “picture”. Such, for example, is “Teremok” - a toy developed by M. Montessori, the ancestor of all modern children's toys with laces.

9. Drawing, coloring.

Coloring is one of the easiest activities. At the same time, it continues to be a means of developing coordinated actions of the visual and motor analyzers and strengthening the motor apparatus of the writing hand. It is necessary to teach children to paint carefully, without going beyond the contours of the depicted objects, evenly applying desired color. In the process of drawing, children develop not only general ideas, creativity, deepen emotional attitude to reality, but elementary graphic skills are formed, which are so necessary for the development of manual dexterity and mastery of writing. By drawing, children learn to properly handle graphic material and master various visual techniques; they develop fine muscles of the hand. You can draw with black and colored pencils, felt-tip pen, chalk, watercolor paints, gouache.

Drawing various materials requires varying degrees of pressure in order for a mark from the writing object to remain on the paper. This also contributes to the development of manual skills.

Of course, drawing helps develop the small muscles of the hand and strengthens it. But we must remember that when learning to draw and write, the positions of the hand, pencil, and notebook are specific. (sheet of paper), techniques for drawing lines.

A good place to start is:

• outlining flat shapes. You can trace anything: the bottom of a glass, an inverted saucer, your own palm, a flat toy, etc. Cookie or muffin tins are especially suitable for this purpose;
• drawing by reference points;
• completing the second half of the drawing;
• drawing according to the sample, without taking your hands off the paper.

You can also use various non-traditional techniques.

Monotype: Paint of different colors is applied to a sheet of paper. Then another sheet is superimposed on the sheet, and the prints are given a certain shape using a brush, pencil, or felt-tip pen.

Spray: the brush is dipped into the paint and then the paint is splattered onto a piece of paper using your fingers or a pencil. In this way, you can create the background of the picture.

Blotography: Paints are applied to a sheet of paper in any order. After applying the drawing with a pencil or felt-tip pen, they give some outline and create an image.

Tamponation: applying paints to paper using cotton swabs or sponges.

Suitable for creating a background.

Freehand printing: If your child is extremely reluctant to paint with a brush, encourage him to paint with his fingers. You can draw with one, two, or all fingers at once: each finger is dipped in paint of a certain color, and then placed on paper in turn. This is how you get fireworks or beads, etc. It is best to finish the drawing with felt-tip pens or pencils. You can paint your hand with a brush and then make prints on paper.

For small children it is good to use special “edible paints” (sold in stores). You can come up with such colors yourself: jam, jam, mustard, ketchup, whipped cream, etc. can decorate your drawing or dish.

10. Graphic exercises.

In a kindergarten setting, children acquire graphic skills in fine arts classes, and fine hand movements develop in the process of construction and when performing labor actions. But these classes are not enough; a well-thought-out system of special classes and exercises is needed to develop children’s graphic skills not only in kindergarten, but also at home.

Graphic activity promotes better orientation in the two-dimensional space of a sheet of paper and prepares the child’s hand for learning to write. It is important that graphic tasks have figurative and semantic significance. For this purpose, objects such as waves, rainbows, puffs of smoke, and fish scales are selected for drawing. Here you can take the task of completing the missing details of flowers and objects, tracing patterns, shading and coloring outline images, pictures in coloring albums. A gradual transition to working according to a given action pattern is provided, for example: “Draw waves, large and small, three large waves and three small ones.” Then the work of completing the drawing of ornaments and labyrinths becomes more complicated.

The child gains experience with graphic movements by performing different kinds shading, drawing, copying drawings, tracing contours along dots and dotted lines, drawing ornaments in cells. At the same time, training is carried out the right techniques action: draw a line from top to bottom and left to right; hatch evenly, without spaces, without going beyond the outline.

11. Hatching.

Tasks with shading are performed on unlined paper. Helps prepare the hand for writing. The child should try not to lift the pen from the paper and not interrupt the lines. The ability to freely draw smooth lines from left to right is important when developing handwriting. Hatching, as one of the easiest types of graphic activities, is introduced to a large extent for children to acquire the necessary skills for writing. hygiene rules. Coloring drawings involves four types of shading, which ensure gradual development and strengthening of the small muscles of the hand and the development of movement coordination.

Types of shading:

coloring with short, frequent strokes;

coloring with small strokes with return;

centric hatching (circular hatching from the center of the picture);

hatching in long parallel segments.

Hatching rules:

Hatch only in the specified direction.

Do not go beyond the contours of the figure.

Keep the lines parallel.

Do not bring the strokes closer together, the distance between them should be 0.5 cm

When performing shading, you must follow the rules: do not go beyond the contours of the figure, maintain the parallelism of the lines and the distance between them (0.3 - 0.5 cm). It is recommended to first hatch with short and frequent strokes, then introduce centric hatching, and only at the last stage is hatching possible with long parallel segments. During the first attempts at shading, the hand quickly gets tired, children press hard on the pencil, there is no coordination of fingers, but the work itself is exciting and the child returns to it on his own. From the drawings you can trace the improvement of the muscular apparatus. For shading, you can use simple and colored pencils, felt-tip pens and colored pens.

To develop accuracy and confidence in hand movements, games are used in which children need to draw parallel lines in a certain direction:

Game "From house to house". The child’s task is to connect houses of the same color and shape with precise straight lines. The child first draws a line simply with his finger, choosing a direction, then with a felt-tip pen. When drawing lines, children accompany the actions with the words “From house to house.”

Game "All kinds of labyrinths". Various labyrinths are drawn for the child. Let him “go through” them with a pencil. To prevent the activity from getting boring, it is best to explain what kind of labyrinth this is, where it leads, and who should go through it. (“This labyrinth is in the castle Snow Queen, it's made of ice. Gerda must walk along it without touching the walls, otherwise she will freeze.")

Tracing any inserts from the Montessori frames and inserts series is useful for hand development, and shading them is no less useful. Each figure should be hatched at a different angle of inclination and with varying degrees of line density. It’s good if the shading turns out to be of varying degrees of intensity: from pale, barely noticeable, to dark.

Grid shading is also useful. In all cases, the child needs samples.

Drawing an ornament. Drawing ornaments on checkered sheets develops motor dexterity well. (graphical exercises) first with a simple pencil, then with colored pencils. You can perform such exercises from 5 to 6 years old. Children engage in this kind of drawing with interest. When the child’s hand gets a little stronger, the drawings he makes become neater and more beautiful.

There is no need to force your child to draw ornaments. Try to interest him in this activity. Be sure to show how this is done first.

In addition to working on the development of fine arm muscles in the classroom, tasks to develop fine motor skills can be included in household chores such as winding threads; tying and untying ribbons, laces, knots on a rope; collecting cut pictures; fastening and unfastening buttons, snaps, hooks; screwing and unscrewing lids, jars, vials; analysis of cereals (peas, buckwheat, rice) and so on.

There are a lot of tasks and exercises aimed at developing fine motor skills. If you wish, especially if you use your imagination and imagination, you can come up with them endlessly. And the main thing here is to take into account individual characteristics each child, his age, mood, desire and capabilities. Fingers will not become skillful right away. Games and exercises, finger exercises, carried out systematically from a very early age, help children confidently hold a pencil and pen, braid their hair and lace their shoes independently, build from small parts of a construction set, sculpt from clay and plasticine, etc. Thus, if they As the fingers develop, the child’s speech and thinking will develop.