Fine Motor Skills

Skills include Visual Skills, Symmetry, Tripod Grasp, Coordination, Eye Hand Fluency, Tracing Skills, Directionality. Activities that develop children's fine motor skills primarily fine motor coordination, eye hand coordination and understanding directionality, allow them to make the precise movements necessary for forming letters. Every child will acquire the fine motor skills needed for handwriting in a different timetable. The more preschool children use their fingers and eyes in activities that help to strengthen their coordination, the sooner they will master these skills. Young children from 3 to 5 years of age use their hands and eyes to explore and learn about the environment and themselves. By developing good visual skills and fine motor skills you will prepare them for the next step which is writing. In this book, children will do various activities like tracing, palm printing, handle crayons, use paint, colour images, matching, complete mazes, join the dots, find the differences, complete the patterns, understand symmetry, eye hand coordination, directionality and many more. Children's ability to do these simple pages as part of the prewriting process froms the building blocks for formal writing of letters, words and numbers. These activity pages are sequentially arranged so as to help in the various skills needed for writing. At the bottom of each page, you will be able to identify the skill that is being enhanced. Take time to read the skill and help your child attempt the activity on the page keeping the skill in mind. Understand and enjoy the development of your child's handwriting process.