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Use dozens of easy, practical activities to help children develop shoulder, wrist, hand, and finger coordination. As they gain control, they ll be preparing for success in cutting, drawing, and writing.
Teachers know how important it is to develop children's fine motor skills as a stepping stone to future learning, and Mighty Fine Motor Fun provides you with the tools and information you need to teach fine motor skills to children ages 3 to 5. The activities in Mighty Fine Motor Fun are organized by age; they are useful and creative, but most important, they are fun! With few materials needed, the activities are perfect for both large and small groups and are easy to integrate into any curriculum. Activities include; Moving Bubbles Hide-and-Seek Playdough Tape It Up! Shape Person Itsy Bitsy Writing Utensils Paper Mobile And many more! In the final chapter of the book, author and occupational therapist Christy Isbell answers questions from real preschool teachers, including; ''should preschoolers use 'fat' or 'skinny' pencils?'' ''What type of paper is best for cutting?'' ''When should a child use an adult-like grasp of the pencil?'' Teachers will appreciate the practical, real-world knowledge Isbell offers, and children will love the playful, absorbing activities!
Your Guide to Fine Motor Skill Development in the Home, Classroom, or Therapy Practice. Learn all of the basics of fine motor development and get age appropriate fine motor activity suggestions for kids of all ages. In Basics of Fine Motor Skills, you'll learn which skills are important for fine motor development, plus what fine motor development looks like in children at all age levels. Explore how gross motor, visual-motor, and sensory processing skills affect fine motor development. Plus learn what fine motor red flags to look for as your child develops. Get activity ideas and suggestions for all the different fine motor skills and also find age appropriate activities based on your child's skills and abilities. Your go-to-guide for everything fine motor related, it's the perfect resource for parents, teachers, and therapists.
Help students build body awareness and improve overall movement. Includes skills checklists, ideas for ball and equipment usage, sensory experiences, and more!
Fine Motor Skills includes five levels of colorful and stimulating activities that gradually challenge little fingers. Each activity promotes learning and fine motor control while covering fundamental lessons in colors, shapes, counting, and writing. As children color, trace, cut, and glue through the fun activities, they will improve their hand-eye coordination, writing control, and scissor and glue skills, while also being encouraged to express their creativity! The six titles in the Basic Beginnings series are an essential and fun resource designed to nurture engaged learning for every child. Each book features 64 pages of colorful activities, mazes, and pictures, as well as three mini books to color, cut out, and share!
This is a successful manual of tried and tested activities to develop gross and fine motor skills in children. It contains: Numerous creative activities to stimulate sensory and body awareness, encourage basic movement, promote hand skills and enhance spatial/perceptual skills; Information on working in small groups; Handouts that can be photocopied to give to parents or other carers for home practice.
Organized by age for easy referencing, the dozens of creative activities in Everyday Play are perfect for children aged three to five, and they develop the fine motor skills every child needs for school. More than just an activity book, Everyday Play is full of information for parents, including advice from the author, developmental guideposts, and easy strategies for teaching children important skills. The activities are inexpensive, requiring few or no materials or props. The language is conversational, so parents at every experience level will feel comfortable and capable. But most of all, teaching the skills in Everyday Play provides parents with an opportunity to have fun with their child while laying the foundation for success in school. Activities include: No-Mess Finger Painting Racing Tracks Squeezy Water Play Graph Paper Art Water Droppers Fine motor skills are a stepping stone for school readiness, and Everyday Play gives parents the tools they need to make developing those skills easy and fun!
"This collection of activities is designed to help develop the strength of the hands in a child's fingers and wrists, dexterity, manipulative skills, perceptual motor skills and eye-hand coordination, which basically are referred to as fine motor skills" -- Introduction, page 6.
Includes activities to strengthen hands, wrists, and fingers including finger plays, puppet patterns, cutting activities, dot-to-dot pictures, mazes, handwriting instruction and much more. Also good for helping children with dysgraphia, perceptual motordifficulties, and developmental coordination disorders.
