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How To Improve Fine Motor Skills And A Fabulous Giveaway

As you know, fine motor skills are important to the development of children. Simple tasks such as tying shoes, brushing teeth, buttoning a shirt or using a zipper require strong fine motor skills.  There are several ways to incorporate activities into your daily classroom routine that will help develop these muscles.

PLAYDOUGH

Yes, it's messy and it gets on the floor and the kids step in it and then it's on the carpet and everywhere else.  However the benefits of using playdough is worth the mess.  When kids squeeze and manipulate playdough they are building the muscles in their fingers and hands.  These muscles are used for other skills such as holding a pencil and cutting with scissors.

UNIFIX CUBES

Unifix cubes are another great fine motor skill tool.  The student push the cubes together to make a variety of towers and other structures. 

TWEEZERS OR GRABBERS

One of the students favorite items to use in the classroom are tweezers or grabbers. I have them out as a center to pick up a variety of items such as pom poms, seeds, beads, etc.  My kids always love to grab all sorts of things around the room with these wonderful tools.


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