It is necessary to develop fine motor skills from the first days of a child's life. At first, the baby looks at his pens with interest, then he tries to grab various objects and toys with them, and then he develops the ability to hold a pencil, take a spoon, etc.
Scientists have proven that fine motor skills are closely related to the development of speech. And in order for the baby's hands to become dexterous, it is not necessary to buy expensive toys, you can use improvised means, for example, cereals.
There are absolutely no restrictions here. For classes, you can use semolina, buckwheat, rice, millet, peas, seeds, beans, lentils and pasta.
Thanks to regular games with cereals, the stiffness of the movements of the hands and fingers disappears in children, flexibility and dexterity appear. It is also important that exercises with bulk materials release from negative emotions and stress, develop perseverance, cognitive interest, imagination and attentiveness.
In fact, you can think of a lot of games and crafts with cereals. You do not need to be limited only to pouring, because each lesson can be turned into an interesting fairy tale with a plot.
For this game, you will need a few pieces of spaghetti, pasta that can be put on spaghetti, and plasticine. A large ball is made of plasticine and spaghetti is inserted into it; it is better to make several such structures at once. The task of the kid is to put on the pasta so that the sticks are not visible.
If it is still difficult for a child to cope with such a task, and the spaghetti is constantly breaking, they can be replaced with wooden skewers.
You can also make a home sandbox from cereals, which will develop not only fine motor skills, but also tactile sensations. Any cereals are poured into a large container or basin, from semolina to pasta, everything is well mixed and played.
There are many options for classes. For example, hide and seek. The child closes his eyes, and the adult hides toys in the sandbox. The kid's task is to find everything.
This is a very exciting activity for both adults and children. The template can be printed or drawn. First, lay out and glue the contours from one cereal, and then fill them with rice, beans, millet, etc.
