Fine Motor Skill Development Activities
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Foundation:
Children continue to develop their fine motor skills, which
are favored by lacing games, among others. Many
These activities are put into play, simultaneously with the
appropriation and coordination of movements, aspects
related to the knowledge of space and of the
characteristics of objects.
They are the exploration activities of the different objects placed.
available to children that enable greater precision in their
movements and an adjustment of them to the demands of the
action, with the consequent coordination of doing between the two
hands and with the sight. This is demanded, for example, by situations
to find the corresponding caps for bottles of different
openings; the transfer of sand, liquids or stones from a
container to another; shaping by making small balls or sausages; the
sticking papers, fabrics, etc.; the simple folding of fabrics or papers.
In this educational conception, motor activity is a condition
essential for the intellectual and emotional development of children.
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Contents:
Spatial representations in the object:
Inside, outside, from one side, from the other. Passage from one side to
another, up and down
Exploration and recognition of the characteristics and uses of the
objects:
Different elements to be threaded, different shapes,
sizes and perforations.
Exploration of possibilities in threading resolution.
- Manipulative coordinations: Differentiated actions and
coordinates of both hands.
Symbolic attribution to their achievements.
Activity I:
Inicio:
Introducing different elements for children to string
(for example, small hoses). I will let them explore, to carry out
different actions with them.
Development:
After they explore the element, I will give them different cables to
Let the threading begin, I will ask them, what can you do?
What are they doing?
Closure:
After the children have completed the threading, they
I will propose that we all take the threaded ones for a walk.
completed.
Activity II:
Start:
Les propondré a los niños que nos sentemos en el piso, y les daré
cardboard squares with different perforations of various
sizes, for them to explore.
Development:
Once the children have explored the cardboard squares, you
I will give wool so that they can thread it 'sewing' in the squares of
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cardboard. In this way, different ways of transitioning from a
side by side. I will carry out the activity with them, I will socialize about it.
that they are doing individually and in case of
find in groups.
Closure:
To finish the activity, I will suggest we decorate the room with the
Threads completed. We will place them in the located tensioners.
in the room.
Material resources:
Hoses of different lengths and diameters.
Cardboard 15 cm x 15 cm.
Paper tape.
Cables
Lan
Spinning tubes.
Bibliography:
Curricular Design for 2 and 3 years. Government of the City of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires. Year 2000.