What Fine Motor Skills Develop at...

7 - 12 months?

Fine motor skills accomplished during these months:

• Reaches across midline.
• Bangs two cubes together.
• Discovers "I-drop-it-you-pick-it-up" game. What fun!
• Uses just his thumb and index finger to pick up small objects.
• Discovers her index finger finds holes and points to objects she wants you to get for her!
• Claps hands.
• Stacks blocks...if you show him how.
• Velcro and zippers fascinate her and Grandma's purse hides all kinds of treasures.

Just ponder his sensory motor development thus far!

By the time he hits the one-year milestone...

• Vision is normal.
• Some babbling actually sounds like words!
• He takes first steps.
• Begins to feed himself.
• Loves texture books!

You have numerous items around the house she can appropriate for her toy box...old purses, anything with velcro or a zipper...whatever her fingers find and you allow...anything that will encourage finger and hand manipulation.

Gift suggestions to enhance the skills of this busy, busy almost-toddler include things to stack, buttons to manipulate, and anything he can fill and spill.

What skills development can you expect of the Toddler? What gifts are appropriate? Let's find out.

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