Motor Skill Activities

Children can work on their fine motor skills with these suggested materials and fine motor activities geared for young kids.

Kids' fine motor skill activities for early learning.

These Fine Motor Skills activities will help develop your child's pencil grip and handwriting skills. These activities build the small muscles in the hands.

Does your child have trouble with fine motor skills and handling small objects? Try fun art projects and activities to build muscles in the hands and fingers.

These fun playtime activities suggested by Jamie Loehr M.D, and Jen Meyers, authors of "Raising Your Child," will help your toddler develop fine motor skills.

Fine Motor Skills are the skills used when you move your hand to do an activity.  They involve the small muscles of the hand, and are necessary for performing many tasks in life.  A lot of activities help in the development of fine motor skills, including weight bearing on the hands, postural control and shoulder stability, and muscle development.  There are also many components of fine motor skills, some of which are, development of the arches of the hands, the thumb and its {Read More}