Weaving offers itself to developing many different types of skills such as fine motor, measuring, and creating patterns. It can also improve a child’s focus or concentration. Teach your child how to weave a Thanksgiving place mat this holiday. It is a fun, beneficial, hands on activity. Here’s how to get started:
You’ll need:
construction paper...
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This is a simple Halloween art project that will promote fine motor skills and artistic creativity. Teaching a child to tear paper helps build finger muscles that will eventually be used in writing and cutting with scissors.
Materials:
Orange paper
Black paper
White paper
Brown marker
Glue
First, take the orange paper and show your child how to pinch and tear...
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Tearing paper builds finger muscles and is an essential step before being able to use a pair of scissors properly. If you want your child to be good with scissors, then teach him/her to tear paper first. Here is a fun fine motor activity to do with your child in order to practice tearing.
Materials:
All...
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Finger painting is another way to build fine motor skills in the fingers and hands. Building up these muscles will help with many future skills such as handwriting, using scissors, and tying shoes. This is a messy, but beneficial activity.
Crayola makes washable finger paints with a gel like consistency that work really well for...
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Play dough is perfect for developing fine motor skills. It can easily be made at home as a fun activity. See my perfect play dough recipe here. "Play doh" can also be bought. Either kind will work great for building fine motor skills.
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