Let's Explore The Fine Motor Skills Development In The...
Five-Year-Old Now that he’s off to kindergarten, what do you do? Supplement school. He’s learned and applied those skills you’ve so diligently encouraged.
Check out these fine motor skills to encourage:- Pop the bubble wrap that came in that package.
- Use the stapler and paper punch.
- Pin a cape on her doll using a large safety pin.
- Put a toothpick in a box and string as many as 10 half-inch beads.
- Use a large paper clip to clip sheets of paper together.
- Use a knife to spread the peanut butter or cut a banana.
- Pour his own juice or milk.
- Show her how to open an individual package of chips and a drink.
- Pass dishes of food and serve himself.
- Squeeze the ketchup and sprinkle salt and pepper on food.
- Fold his T-shirts and underclothes and put them away.
- Puts her shoes on the correct feet.
- Help him make his bed; then he'll be able to do it himself.
- Dial a friend's telephone number.
- Trace around templates of geometric figures; then cut them out
- Build a bridge using blocks.
- Develops paper/pencil skills.
Take a look at some gift suggestions that promote these skills.
Lacing Sweets
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Trace & Learn Cake
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Bakery Set
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Design & Drill
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Work Belt Tool Kit
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Smart Start Dry Erase Board
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Such strides your child has made using her fine motor skills…complete helplessness to a more independent person…in just five years!He’ll be using those fine motor skills you’ve so conscientiously encouraged for the rest of his life. The school years from kindergarten through high school and beyond will be the most intensive. Each child is unique and not all will develop these skills to the same degree. That’s okay. To whatever degree they are developed, you know that your child is valuable and important.
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