fine motor skill

The building of fine motor skills in children will enable them to perform a variety of important functional tasks. These include:

tying shoes zipping and unzipping buckling and unbuckling writing legibly and without significant muscle fatigue playing games that require precise hand and finger control drawing, painting, and coloring manipulating buttons and snaps putting small objects together doing puzzles making crafts using scissors manipulating small objects such as coins opening and closing objects picking up and holding onto small objects developing and maintaining an effective and proper pencil grip pinching objects between fingers using locks and keys being able to isolate finger movements (i.e., using one finger at a time, such as in playing the piano or typing) turning things over or turning pages of a book holding and using utensils properly and effectively screwing and unscrewing doing ANYTHING that requires small precise hand and finger movements