Child psychologists have proven that the brain is directly related to a child’s ability to use his hands and fingers and perform various actions with them. That's why parents need to play games with their children to gradually develop fine motor skills. Training should be carried out regularly, be varied and not tire the child.
Definition
Fine motor skills are a set of movements performed by the fingers and hands. It is extremely important to develop it for several reasons.
- Through such activities, the internal organs of the baby are affected. Exercise has a beneficial effect on brain development.
- The ability to perform movements with fingers and hands is most often an indicator that the child is fully developing.
- Finger movements are directly related to speech centers in the cerebral cortex, so experts recommend training your hands in parallel with speech development. Moreover, doing motor skills exercises will help those children who suffer from speech impediments begin to speak better.
Work on fine motor skills should begin from a very early age. Even babies have their fingers massaged, but older children need to learn to perform basic actions on their own. This will be helped by special play exercises that are interesting and useful for kids.
Benefits of exercise
Games and exercises that develop fine motor skills should be carried out with the child on a regular basis, as they not only improve the baby’s ability to work with his fingers and hand, but also stimulate speech development.
Without such activities, there is a risk that the child will be unprepared for school, his hand will not be able to hold a pen or write correctly. And the child himself may find himself helpless and experience difficulties in performing such basic actions as tying shoelaces.
Daily exercise will help improve attention and memory. Gaming technologies are diverse, so any parent can choose exercises to their liking.
Age
Pediatricians recommend starting conscious daily training with a child who is 4-5 years old. But at an earlier age, fingers need to be given attention - massage, kneading active points that are directly connected to the brain centers.
So, for the youngest (up to 2 years old) the following exercises can be used:
- stroking the palm;
- flexion-extension of fingers;
- clapping your hands.
To make the child have fun, the lesson should be accompanied by reading nursery rhymes about the White-sided Magpie and playing “Ladushki”.
If a child attends kindergarten, then teachers in the younger group conduct classes on the development of fine motor skills, but for parents this is not a reason to refuse home training, which will help consolidate the acquired skills and translate them into skills. Therefore, on weekends you need to work with your baby using a playful form, offering him new interesting tasks.
Training fine motor skills of the hands when restoring a bedridden patient
Gavrilkina Oksana Sergeevna Chief rehabilitation doctor, physical therapy and sports medicine doctor,
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When it comes to fine motor skills , people usually think of infants or preschool-aged children. However, there are several other categories of people who need to perform simple exercises that restore the mobility of the joints of the hand, fingers, and feet. These include:
- children born with cerebral palsy;
- patients who have had a stroke;
- elderly people (over 65 years old);
- bedridden patients, regardless of the disease history.
All joints and muscles of the body, regardless of their size and location, need constant movement. With forced inactivity, muscle tone is quickly lost, finger sensitivity decreases, and joint mobility decreases. This can lead to complete atrophy of the limb.
Ways to develop fine motor skills of the hands.
There are several ways to improve and restore the motor activity of the joints of the hands and fingers. These may include interaction with other people and the use of mechanical devices. For example:
- massage;
- sorting, pouring small objects;
- exercises using rings and balls that are placed on tripods;
- exercises with horizontal bars, rings.
Features of improving fine motor skills of the hands in bedridden patients.
The main problem that people face when caring for patients who cannot get out of bed is the patient’s deterioration in the ability to move, apathy, and deterioration in the quality of speech . All this is due to the weakness of the muscular system due to forced long-term inactivity. This condition is especially dangerous for older people, in whom complete muscle atrophy can occur within a month after the start of bed rest.
The patient’s intelligible speech is also associated with the motor activity of the fingers and hands. Understanding and reproducing words directly depends on motor impulses arising in the upper limbs. With regular training of fine motor skills of the fingers, a significant improvement in the patient’s speech quality can be achieved, which is very important for bedridden patients who have suffered a stroke .
An even bigger problem may be the patient's reluctance to do the exercises. Here tasks in the form of a game with poetry or musical accompaniment will help.
Exercises to develop fine motor skills of the hands
If a bedridden patient is able to independently engage in creative activities such as knitting, embroidery or drawing , these are the best methods for maintaining finger motor skills at the desired level. But often bedridden patients need simpler exercises that can be done independently or under the supervision of a caregiver. Some of them:
- Alternately clenching into a fist and straightening your fingers;
- Rubbing your palms together in a circular motion;
- Consecutive flexion, extension of fingers;
- Rolling a glass or metal ball in the palms;
- Sprinkling fine sand with your hands;
- Separating objects of different shapes and sizes into categories (sorting peas, beans, buckwheat mixed into one pile is good);
- Grabbing moderately heavy objects (books, glasses, water bottles), lifting an object held in the hand 20-30 cm above a horizontal surface;
- Attaching/removing clothespins from rope or wire;
- Rubbing your palms with hand skin cream (especially suitable for women of any age);
- Modeling from plasticine or soft clay.
Mechanical devices for the development of lost fine motor skills of the hands
The medical industry offers many options for devices that help bedridden patients during the rehabilitation period to improve the quality of life. The simplest of them are inserts made of wool or foam rubber, by squeezing them in the hand, the patient reduces muscle spasm and performs an independent massage of the palm and fingers. Pyramids like those for children are also very popular; they not only stimulate the work of the small joints of the hand, but also restore the usually impaired color perception. There are combined devices that include elements of a pyramid, expanders for compression, containers with small balls for sorting and massage.
Needle applicators have also proven themselves to be excellent, affecting sensitive points on the patient’s palm and improving blood circulation in the extremities, which is also important for the normal functioning of the joints and muscles of the hand.
Rules for performing finger exercises
Working with the baby on the development of fine motor skills should be carried out on a regular basis, but not tire the child. The easiest way to do it is with finger games, which perfectly stimulate the brain and help develop dexterity, attention, and memory. The work is carried out first with the right hand, then with the left. An adult is required to monitor the correct execution of the movements, so before showing them to a child, you need to practice yourself.
Advice
You should start with 2-3 repetitions of each exercise, gradually increasing them to 5-8. Training is carried out daily, and a few minutes a day is enough.
Didactic manuals advise: if the child gets tired, the lesson can be broken up. Do the first two exercises in the morning, two more in the afternoon, and one in the late afternoon.
Fingers play
However, the most interesting activity for children is finger games: all kinds of rhymes, tongue twisters, nursery rhymes, mini-performances that are performed only with the help of fingers. They were discussed in detail in this article. Here we present several new options for finger games.
But first, here are a few rules for conducting activities that develop fine motor skills:
- Work with your child regularly, include hand massage, games with small parts, creative activities, and finger exercises in your training program.
- Finger gymnastics should last from 5 to 15 minutes, no more, otherwise the baby will get tired and switch his attention to something else.
- Before starting the exercises, you need to warm up your palms by actively rubbing them against each other.
- Remember that now it is difficult for children to perform movements with both hands at once, so start with one, then repeat with the other, and only after that try to synchronize the hands.
- Keep in mind that the child may not remember all the movements or words of the game the first time, this is normal at their age. Everything will work out gradually.
- The baby will also learn to correlate words with movements during the lessons; if he doesn’t succeed right away, encourage him and help him perform the action.
- Move from simple to complex. If a child is offered an exercise that he cannot do, next time he will simply refuse to play.
- Try to interest your child by organizing games with his favorite characters, melodies, and rhymes.
- Do not exercise if your baby is unwell or in a bad mood. Don't force it. There are no useful games against the will of the player.
Most popular games
The game catalog contains a huge number of options. We offer some simple finger games that are loved by most children.
- Squeeze all the fingers on both hands, then unclench them. Run several times.
- Squeeze the fingers on your right hand and unclench them one by one. Repeat the exercise with the left.
To make it interesting for the child, during the lesson the parent can read funny poems to him or write a story about how a fairy-tale character (a bear) got home with the help of finger movements. For example: the bear passed the first forest - extend one finger. The bear passed the second forest - we unbend the second one. The child will try to do the exercise to find out how the fairy tale ends.
- "Fan". The exercise is useful for the fingers; it is performed like this: press your fingers together (imitating a closed fan), then spread them as wide as possible (the fan has opened), and wave your hand.
- A very good exercise that helps develop not only motor skills, but also attention and reaction speed - “Scratch-scratch”. The parent places his hand on the table, the baby places his palm on the adult’s palm and listens to him. Mom or dad tells a poem or a fairy tale, the child’s task is to be attentive. As soon as “tsap-scratch” is heard (this can be any other phrase discussed in advance), he needs to remove his palm as quickly as possible, otherwise the parent will cover it with his other hand. After a few practices, parent and baby can switch roles.
- "Butterfly". First, the fingers are clenched into a fist, now you need to straighten the little finger one at a time, then the ring and middle fingers. Create a ring from the index finger and thumb. The butterfly is ready. Now you need to ask the child to “flap his wings” - make movements with straight fingers.
If one of the finger games causes difficulty, you can replace it with another for a while; you should not torment your child with a mandatory mindset for success.
A collection of games and exercises for developing fine motor skills
Natalya Shardakova
A collection of games and exercises for developing fine motor skills
We play, we play - we develop
Compiled by: Shardakova N.P., teacher.
“The origins of children’s abilities and gifts are at their fingertips. From them, figuratively speaking, come the finest streams that feed the source of creative thought. The more confidence and ingenuity in the movements of a child’s hand, the more subtle its interaction with the tool, the more complex the movements necessary for this interaction, the brighter the creative element of the child’s mind. The more skill in a child’s hand, the smarter the child.”
V. A. Sukhomlinsky
Games with fingers and hands stimulate the process of speech and mental development of children , develop fine motor skills of the fingers and coordination of movements. Such fun is very exciting. They promote the development of creative activity.
The collection includes exercises and games for the development of children's fine motor skills using various toys and games, factory-made or independently made from scrap and waste materials. Ordinary objects that can be used for play, involving the child in helping with housework.
The collection is recommended for teachers of children's homes, junior kindergartens and parents.
There are many toys on sale that are very useful for developing fine motor skills . Among them, for example:
• sorters” (cubes with holes of different shapes and inserts of different shapes)
– you can do it yourself by cutting holes in a cardboard box and inviting the child to put corks, lids from jars, etc. into the holes);
• lacing – you can do it yourself by taking cardboard and laces;
wooden frames - “puzzles”
and inserts for them with a handle
(usually in the form of apples, bananas, etc.)
;
• wax crayons ;
• kits for creating paintings, beads, etc. from small plastic tubes or beads;
•puzzles:
• mosaics;
• pyramids;
• matryoshka;
• designers;
• small animal toys , cubes, cars;
• box or “magic bag”
, where by touch you need to find an object by agreement or grope and describe the object.
You can make it yourself or buy it;
• finger paints, depending on the manufacturer - some can be used as early as a year.
A variety of subject-based activities have also proven themselves well, which also contributes to the development of fine motor skills .
Some ideas for developing fine motor skills :
• Finger drawing on a tray (mirror)
with cereal, jelly, shaving cream.
• Stringing clothespins on ropes, edges of plates.
• "Sprinkling"
- sand, sugar, semolina.
• Pouring water from one vessel to another; pouring loose objects (cereals)
from one vessel to another.
You can spray water into toys using a plastic (disposable)
syringe without a needle.
• Playing with water and a soft sponge.
• Pulling thread out of fabric.
• Applique (tear off pieces of thin paper or cotton wool and glue to the base;
• working with natural materials (cones, acorns, leaves, etc., small objects (buttons, rhinestones, shells)
– gluing using plasticine.
• Catching small toys from the bath using a spoon or ladle.
•Learning to unscrew lids: open a screw-on jar; open tubes of toothpaste and bottles;
• open a box of matches with some interesting small item or tasty treat inside;
• push the pencil, drop the beans into an empty plastic bottle;
• open and close markers, felt-tip pens.
• In everyday life, the child must learn to fasten and unfasten buttons and zippers
,
Velcro
, lace up shoes, roll up sleeves.
• An empty plastic soda bottle. You can fill it with beads and rattle it, or you can stick a pencil in it or lower the beads.
• Empty yogurt containers. You can cut them into rings and put them on the pegs.
• Cardboard tubes used for paper towels or toilet paper. Can be used as "pegs"
for putting on rings or as
“tunnels”
for cars.
• Empty bottles with a dispenser, like dishwashing detergent. Wash them well and use them for bath play.
• Wrist bracelets. Wearing a bracelet across the entire hand develops children's sense of touch.
• The child dips his hands into a vessel filled with some homogeneous filler (water, sand, various cereals, pellets, any small objects , and for 2-3 minutes he seems to mix the contents. Then he is offered a vessel with a different filler texture. After several tests, the child with closed eyes, he lowers his hand into the offered vessel and tries to guess its contents without feeling its individual elements with his fingers.
• Retrieving toys from the cereal pool will be a useful and fun activity. To make such a pool, you need to pour in cereals (peas, beans, wheat, pearl barley)
in the basin, put various toys
(preferably not very large)
and invite the baby to find the toys in this pool.
This play exercise not only promotes the development of fine motor skills , but also massages the baby’s hand and develops his tactile sensations.
• Take a bright tray. small grains onto a tray in a thin, even layer . Run your baby's finger over the rump. You will get a bright contrasting line. Let your child draw a few chaotic lines himself. Then try to draw some objects together (fence, rain, waves)
etc.
• Choose buttons of different colors and sizes. First, lay out the drawing yourself, then ask your child to do the same on his own. After the child learns to complete the task without your help, invite him to come up with his own versions of the drawings. You can use a button mosaic to make a tumbler, a butterfly, a snowman, balls, beads, etc.
• Give your child a round hair brush. The child rolls the brush between his palms, saying:
"At the pine, at the fir, at the Christmas tree
Very sharp needles.
But even stronger than the spruce forest,
The juniper will prick you.”
• Take a sink grate (usually it consists of many squares)
. The child walks with his index and middle fingers, like legs, along these cells, trying to take steps on each stressed syllable. You can “walk” alternately with one hand and then with the other, or you can do it with both at the same time, saying:
"We wandered around the zoo,
Each cell was approached
And they looked at everyone:
Bear cubs, wolf cubs, beaver cubs.”
• Take the dumpling maker. Its surface is similar to a honeycomb. Baby with two fingers (index and middle)
depicts a bee flying over a honeycomb:
“Fingers, like bees, fly through the honeycombs
And they enter each one with a check: what is there?
Will we all have enough honey until spring?
So that you don’t have hungry dreams?”
• Pour 1 kg of peas or beans into a pan. The child puts his hands in there and imitates kneading dough, saying:
“Knead, knead the dough,
There is room in the oven.
They will be out of the oven
Buns and rolls."
• Pour dry peas (beans)
. For each stressed syllable, the child transfers the peas, one at a time, to another mug. First with one hand, then with both hands at the same time. Any quatrains can be selected.
• Pour in peas (beans)
on a saucer.
The child takes a pea with his thumb and forefinger and holds it with the other fingers (as when picking berries , then takes the next pea, then another and another - so he picks up a whole handful. You can do this with one or two hands.
• Place two caps from plastic bottles on the table threaded up. These are “skis”. The index and middle fingers stand in them like feet. We move on the “skis”, taking one step for each stressed syllable:
“We are skiing, we are rushing down the mountain,
We love the fun of cold winter."
• We build a “log house” from matches or counting sticks. The higher and smoother the log house, the better.
• Clothespin (check on your fingers to make sure it's not too tight)
alternately “bite” the nail phalanges
(from the index to the little finger and back)
on the stressed syllables of the verse:
“The silly kitten bites hard,
He thinks it's not a finger, but a mouse. (Change hands.)
But I'm playing with you, baby,
And if you bite, I’ll tell you: “Shoo!”
• We stretch the rope at the level of the child’s shoulders and give him several clothespins. For each stressed syllable, the child attaches a clothespin to the rope:
“I’ll pin the clothespins deftly
I’m on my mother’s rope.”
• The child crumples a handkerchief (or plastic bag)
so that it all fits in your fist.
•The child rolls a walnut between his palms and says:
"I'm rolling my nut,
To become rounder than everyone else.”
• The child holds two walnuts in one hand and rotates them around one another.
• Modeling from salt dough.
Here is the recipe for salt dough:
1 cup flour, 3/4 cup salt, 5 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil,
a little warm water, a little starch.
For color, you can add gouache, beet or carrot juice to the dough.
Dissolve salt in a minimum amount of water, knead everything together.
The dough can be used repeatedly and stored in the refrigerator in a closed jar.
To harden, place the figurine in a cold oven and bake over medium heat. Cooled figures can be painted and varnished.
• Exercises with dough:
Pinch off pieces with two fingers, then stick them on (for example, eyes)
.
Clap the dough, flatten it with your whole palm, roll sausages with your palm and each of your fingers.
Imprint fingers and chopsticks on the dough.
Combine dough with other materials (peas, beans, twigs, vermicelli, straws)
You can make rings and string them on a cord.
• Small screw-on bottles (game for children 2-3 years old)
Hide small toys or candy , and leave some of the bottles empty. Invite your child to guess in which bottles the toys are hidden. It will be very good if he himself thinks of shaking the bottle and listening to see if there is anything there. Once all items have been removed, ask your baby to close the bottles.
The game develops auditory attention and fine motor skills .
• Cream jars (game for children 2-3 years old)
Invite your child to unscrew all the caps, and then, after mixing them, close them again. You can play with three to five jars or more. Please note: all jars must be different, so that only a different lid fits each one.
The game develops visual perception, visual memory, fine motor skills .
• Clothespins (game for children 3-5 years old)
Attach clothespins to a cardboard circle to create a “sun”
or
"flower"
. You can design the toy in the shape of a hedgehog, with clothespins acting as needles. Invite your child to remove all the clothespins and then reattach them. If there are a lot of clothespins, they are of different colors and configurations, then the children themselves can come up with a lot of crafts.
The game develops fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
Here are exercises in which a baby can train fine motor skills , helping parents and feeling needed and almost an adult:
• Remove the skin from vegetables cooked in their skins. Peel hard-boiled eggs. Peel tangerines.
• Pick up debris from the floor. Help collect objects scattered on the floor (buttons, carnations, beans, beads)
.
• Help wind threads or rope into a ball (it’s better to keep silent about who unwound them)
.
• Polish shoes for the whole family with a special sponge.
• Help parents unscrew various caps - water cans, bubble baths, toothpaste, etc.
• Help sort out the cereal.
• Tear, crumple paper and stuff it into shoes being stored.
• Wipe away dust without missing anything.
• Turn lights on and off.
• Look for the edge of the tape. Peel and stick stickers.
• Turn the pages of a book.
• Sharpen pencils (with a sharpener)
. Erase the drawn scribbles with an eraser.
• Pour liquids from one container to another.
• Play with mosaics and puzzles.
• Sort buttons or other items by size.
• Collect construction sets.
• Place objects in narrow openings, such as the neck of a bottle.
• Model together from plasticine.
• Paint. Holding pencils and brushes in your hands is an excellent way to develop motor skills , no worse than special exercises . Teach your child to trace drawings and objects along the contour. Paint not only with brushes, but also with your fingers. Now there are special paints for this.
• Cut out different shapes from paper.
• Motor skills are also developed by other simple and familiar activities - braiding hair, combing dolls, putting toys in their places and much more.
• While walking, build castles, slides, and other figures from sand or pebbles. Coarse sand and stones develop palms .
• Invite your child to help you with the housework - making dumplings, kneading dough, weeding beds, sewing, picking berries - a great alternative to games.
• Buy soft toys filled with small balls . They are designed specifically for the development of children's fine motor skills .
• Always play with toys of different sizes, shapes and sizes.
First lessons with objects
Having learned the basic games with fingers, you can move on to the next step - practicing with objects. For the little ones, such developmental exercises will be useful.
- Working with a pencil and small hair ties. The parent holds a pencil in his hand. The child’s task is to put several small rubber bands on him one after another.
- Drawing with semolina. The parent pours a thin layer of cereal onto a flat plate or cutting board, inviting the baby to run his finger over it. You will get a line. In the same way, the child draws several stripes on the semolina.
- Laying out the beans. The mother gives the baby a small handful of beans (beads or buttons can replace them). The preschooler is required to lay it out on the table in piles or make a path.
- Working with beads, stringing large elements. They can be replaced with pasta pre-dyed in different colors.
- Working with buttons. The parent draws a circle on a piece of paper. The child is given instructions to arrange buttons, paper clips, and beans along its contour.
- Children love to imitate adults, and this should be used in organizing classes. So, the mother can invite the baby to stir the sugar in his tea himself.
- "Firework". The baby’s task is to tear a sheet of paper into as small pieces as possible and fold them on the table. Then these scraps are held in the hands and tossed, like a real fireworks display.
The main rule is to practice every day, but do not force the baby. Training should bring joy, not irritation.
What contributes to manual dexterity?
There are many ways to make little fingers more skilled. The following games and activities perfectly develop fine motor skills in children aged 3–4 years:
- fastening buttons, snaps, lacing;
- unscrewing lids on jars and bottles;
- rolling pencils, nuts, spools in the palms;
- modeling from plasticine or dough;
- sorting of cereals (peas, beans, buckwheat, rice);
- finger painting on sand, semolina or buckwheat;
- drawing with finger paints or pencils;
- cutting out figures along the contours;
- games with small details (constructor, mosaic, puzzles);
- stringing large beads on fishing line or wire;
- feeling surfaces made of various materials and textures;
- massage with spiked balls.
When your child paints with finger paints, put on things that you don’t mind getting damaged by paints, and cover the table with protective oilcloth to make subsequent cleaning easier.
Most of these activities captivate children 3–4 years old, especially if parents give them the form of an entertaining game. For example, they suggest not just sorting out the cereals, but helping Cinderella go to the ball, not just touching different surfaces, but imagining yourself as a blind Mole from the fairy tale about Thumbelina, and guessing what you touched.
Basic games
Parents should prepare in advance a set of games that will help their 4-5 year old child develop the ability to work with fingers and perform small movements. There are a great variety of similar exercises; almost all the tools can be created from improvised means.
You can offer the following options for exciting games.
- With cereals and large objects (for example, a button, a bead). The parent takes a deep bowl, fills it with cereal, into which he buries several buttons. The baby’s task is to find and get them.
Advice
For this exercise, you can use almost any cereal: rice, peas, buckwheat.
- Untying knots. You need to start with simple ones, using a thick rope, gradually complicating the task.
- Labyrinth. An adult draws a “labyrinth” on a piece of paper, and the child’s task is to walk through it with the index and middle fingers, imitating steps.
These exercises develop the hand and fingers well.
The importance of fine motor skills
Fine motor skills of the hands are a unity of coordinated manipulations that are aimed at performing small precise movements with the hands and fingers. Just a few decades ago, parents did not have problems with the motor skills of their children. After all, the children did a lot of things with their own hands: they helped peel vegetables, make pies, do laundry, sort out cereals, tie shoelaces and fasten buttons. Today, most of these activities are done either by adults, allowing children to play, or by specialized machines. Even Velcro shoes and clothes with zippers deprive the child of the opportunity to practice the fine movements of his fingers.
Meanwhile, a lot says about the importance of fine motor skills. Children with weak motor skills are not ready for writing and often lag behind in speech development. All this affects school performance and leads to increased stress on the child’s nervous system.
Among other things, the state of fine motor skills of the hands directly affects the development of the child:
- self-care skills;
- perseverance;
- thinking;
- attention;
- imagination;
- vocabulary;
- memory.
After all, the centers of the cerebral cortex responsible for fine motor skills are adjacent and closely interconnected with the centers responsible for the development of these areas. By activating the fine motor area, we naturally influence the neighboring ones.
We make exercise equipment
To teach a child to use a brush and make movements with his fingers, parents will have to try and be patient, because not everything will work out the first time. To prevent your baby from losing interest, it is important to offer him a variety of exercises. Therefore, moms and dads will have to create exercise equipment with their own hands. There are many options.
The bird is made like this:
- take a cardboard box (for example, pizza, candy).
- an image of a bird is applied to it, preferably large in size (the bird can be pasted on or drawn);
- A hole is made in the cardboard near the beak.
The baby’s task is to lower one grain into the hole (to feed the bird).
In a similar way, you can feed the worm peas.
A simulator with bands can be done like this:
- several satin ribbons are attached to a vertical surface (you can sew them to a special rug, which you hang on the wall so that the baby can easily reach it);
- A small wooden stick is glued to the other side of each ribbon (you can use a popsicle stick).
The child’s task is to try to twist the ribbon.
Children are also very fond of homemade lacing, exercises with which contribute to the formation of a very important skill - lacing shoes.
You can make an interesting activity yourself from felt - cut out a hedgehog figurine and fruit, inviting your child to place the “prey” on the hedgehog’s spines.
You can purchase special educational toys in the store - construction sets, mosaics, puzzles, pyramids, and a magic basket.
Safety precautions
To ensure that games aimed at developing fine motor skills do not cause harm to the baby, parents should follow the following rules.
- After the lesson, carefully remove all small objects so that a curious child, having discovered a familiar “entertainment”, does not accidentally swallow it or stick it in his nose or ear.
- During the training, the baby must be supervised. It is important for an adult to control literally every movement, because the child does not yet understand that he can harm himself.
These simple rules will help you avoid accidents.
The development of fine motor skills with the help of didactic games and exercises should become a habit for both parents and children. It is necessary to train with your child every day, coming up with new stories and using a variety of available means.
