The ability to work with your hands, or fine motor skills, is one of the most important qualities that must be developed in a child under 7 years old. The development of this quality is closely interconnected with the level of formation of other qualities of a preschooler, such as cognitive abilities, memory, thinking, speech, orientation in space. And, of course, the degree of the ability to work with hands largely determines the readiness for school in a future first grader, the success of his further mastery of writing skills.
There are a wide variety of methods for developing fine motor skills in babies.
Finger gymnastics. The child is asked to depict various objects and movements with the help of the fingers, to move and spread the fingers alternately on the left and right hand, and also at the same time.
Logorhythmic exercises - active movements of the fingers in accordance with the rhythm set by an adult with the help of special poems or songs.
Finger theater games. Mini-performances will not only help to improve fine motor skills, but will also contribute to the development of speech and the level of the baby's imagination.
Performing a variety of movements with objects using your fingers. This can be rolling a pencil, nuts or a small ball, shifting counting sticks, grabbing objects with tweezers or clothespins, playing with lacing, beads, beads. Art therapy techniques, or finger painting. Laying out patterns from the mosaic. Modeling of compositions, figures from plasticine, kinetic sand or salt dough.
Games with paper, for example, folding or rolling it into a ball, playing "snowballs", making "torn" applications.
Games with cereals. You can offer the baby to pour the cereal from one container to another, sort it by type, lay out various images from the cereal.
Actions with buttons: they can be fastened, unbuttoned, strung on ribbons and laces, laid out various compositions.
In addition, parents should not forget about. Climbing and hanging (for example, on the Swedish wall) create conditions for strengthening the baby's palms and fingers, and developing hand strength.
Thus, parents can turn the most important task of developing fine motor skills into an easy and relaxed game. The main thing is not to forget about the regularity and systematicity of the exercises, especially if the baby does not attend kindergarten.
