Fine Motor Development In Children. They also help your child to manipulate toys button shirts eat food etc. Fine motor skill efficiency significantly influences the quality of the task outcome as well as the speed of task performance.
Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscle of the hands commonly in activities like using pencils scissors construction with lego or duplo doing up buttons and opening lunch boxes. According to developing fine motor skills by michelle huffman and callie fortenberry fine motor development has four main stages. Pop bubbles on bubble wrap with just the index finger and thumb use an eyedropper to add food coloring to batter with just the index finger and thumb finger painting puzzles video games trace shapes or letters legos.
These muscles allow your child to hold bottles toothbrushes crayons and pencils.
The palmar arches allow the palms to curl inward. Some ways to develop these skills are having children do the following activities. And self care skills such as using zips and buttons opening lunch boxes tying shoelaces and cleaning teeth. Back to child development charts.
