Enhancing My Son Fine Motor skills: Helping Him To Make Animal Collage.

Good day lovely kids and friends! You're welcome to my blog, I trust you all are enjoying yourselves and you are keeping yourselves busy with a new steemit engagement challenge. today I will write about fine motor skills in children, I will tell you what it is, and things you can do to enhance your child(ren) fine motor skills so stay connected.

DEFINITION OF FINE MOTOR SKILLS:

It is a skill of how babies, toddlers, and kids in general can use your small muscles to perform tasks. For example children use this skills to write their name, tie their shoes, and cut paper with scissors. The important of developing in a child this skills can't be overstated, as it will help him or her in mastering coordination. For children to be able to use your small muscle they need to think and act in precision.

Babies that coordinating thought with their muscles at the age of 4 to 6 months. You will see them grasping their favourite objects instead of any random object.

Note gross motor skills differs from fine motor skills, in gross motor skill children uses their large muscles to carry out an action or to make movements which involved their whole body. But in fine motor skills children require to use their small muscles to make a precise movements all are important but I will focus on fine motor skills.

THE IMPORTANCE OF FINE MOTOR SKILLS:

This is crucial as it help children in many things as feeding themselves doing buttons and zippers, holding things and drawing. it help children to look after themselves, like doing things as fastening shoelaces, brushing their teeth and putting on their clothes.

• Improves hand to eye coordination.
• It encourages creativity
• Assist in communication skills like writing talking and drawing
• help children to be independence and to build confidence etc.

SOME FINE MOTOR ACTIVITIES FOR TODDLERS INCLUDES:

• Drawing shapes
• Drawing and colouring with crayons
• Collaging
• Eye dropper Painting
• Cutting ✂️ out shapes
• Play dough etc

MATERIALS NEEDED FOR THE ANIMAL COLLAGE:

• black and white Print out of the animals images
• sugar papers
• Scissor
• Bond top
• white cardboard paper.

Procedure:

• assist your child to use scissor to cut the sugar paper into small pieces

• Assist him to calves out the animals

• assist the kid to put Bond top at the back of the image and Then paste it on the white cardboard.

• he/she should put the gum again on the image and pick some pieces of the sugar paper and spread on the object.

• Boom animals collage is ready!

• Write the animals names on it.

This is my post for today, I hope you like it! You know they are so many other fine motor skills activities can you mention the ones you know at the comment section? Thank you!