Monday, January 16, 2012

Fine Motor Skills Grasps

Palmer, Pincer, and Pencil Grasp for Fine Motor Skills Development
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As children develop from infancy into their preschool years the palmer, pincer, and pencil grasps are important to their fine motor development. Below you will find a brief description of each

Fine Motor Skills Grasps for Development

Stacking Activities for Fine Motor Skills Development in Kids

Small Building Blocks Activities: 

Small building blocks give children an opportunity to develop their fine motor skills while engaging in another fun activity. Grabbing and stacking. These sorts of ideas and activities build the small muscles of the children's hands and fingers.

These activities also help to work on developing hand/eye co-ordination skills in children as well.

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Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers

Gluing Activities for Fine Motor Development: 

Glueing is another great fine motor activity for children. This activity is fun and a very popular one with children. Cutting and gluing pieces of paper, pieces of colorful construction paper, newpaper and more.

Children can also get added benefits by tearing paper using their hands and gluing it creating their art and masterpieces. Tearing helps children to develop their small hand and finger muscles.

Gluing Activities for Kids

Gross Motor Activities for Kids

How to Help Children with Gross Motor Activities:

Helping children master gross motor skills involves some planning but at the same time can be, and is quite simple to make developing these skills successful.

Making sure children have a large area to run and play is a good idea. Get kids outside and let them run and jump, kick a ball, ride their bikes and push their scooters.

These gross motor ideas and activities for children are expanded below.

Gross Motor Development Activities

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Weather Circle Time Activity - Part 2.

Here is Part 2. of the Full preschool circle time activity video. Make sure that you watch Part 1. of the full preschool weather circle time video first.

This preschool circle time video is requested often so we figured we would post it where it is easy to access for our visitors.


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