Free Fine Motor Activities
To Help Your Child!

On this site, you will find a range of photographed activity ideas, and also articles to help you understand the importance of these skills.

Using fun fine motor activities will give your child a sense of achievement while helping to develop essential handwriting skills. And if your child hates writing, drawing and coloring, don’t worry, there is not a pencil or a crayon in sight for most of these fun learning activities!

So let your child improve fine motor skills without forcing the use of a pencil, and you should soon see some improvement in handwriting skills.

• Scissor Cutting Skills: This article explains the importance of scissor cutting and also the basics of teaching a child how to cut with scissors.


• Scissor Cutting Activities gives ideas to help your child practice cutting with scissors.


• Hand Exercises and Finger Exercises will help your child to develop good control over the pencil for handwriting.


• Kindergarten Hand Exercises are suitable for younger children.


• If you have an older child with poor fine motor skills, try these
  Fine Motor Skills Activities for Older Kids.


• Wrist Exercises for Kids may help children who tend to hook their wrists, or lift their wrists off the table when drawing or writing.


• Playdough Activities can boost fine motor skills. Try the easy Homemade Playdough Recipe , too.


• Tactile Perception Activities can improve fine motor skills by helping little hands have a better sense of what they are holding and how firmly to hold it.


• Shoulder Exercises especially designed for kids can strengthen the larger muscles of the shoulder so the smaller hand muscles can work more effectively.

• What are Fine Motor Skills?


• Essential Bases for Fine Motor Development: There are 4 Essential Bases in fine motor development, and it is best to make sure that your child is not lacking in any of the bases.


• Why are some fine motor skills activities better than others for helping your child? Find out why some fine motor tasks simply frustrate your child and learn how to choose effective activities for your child.


• Pencil Grasp Development: what are the stages that young children should go through to develop a correct pencil grip?


• What is the correct pencil grasp, and what does a poor pencil grip look like?


• Why is wrist extension important?This article explains why the position of the wrist is important for good handwriting


• Read my own Fine Motor Story about how my 2 sons had completely different fine motor experiences. Perhaps you would like to share your own story too?

Here are some tips that come from advice that I have given to many moms over the years - try them and see if they help you!

• For older kids with poor handwriting, try these tips to improve handwriting.


• Help your Early Elementary child practice spelling and maths without using a pencil.


• Help your pencil-phobic Kindergartner practice letter formations and numbers without a pencil.


• For left-handers, there are some great tips and left handed scissors as well as other resources at Left Hand NZ - check them out!

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