Ideas for hand strength/fine motor skills

Mar 26, 2013 22:58

Listing these out here so I won't forget them and can practice them with David over spring break/summer. His Pre-K teacher said he could use more work in this area (as could many 4-5 year olds) to improve his handwriting:

1. Opening clothespins with index finger and thumb
2. Using tweezers to move pom-poms - from a pile into a cup - make it a race!
3. pushing pieces of dry rotini through a small slit cut in the top of a sour cream carton
4. Variation on 2 - give tweezers, a pile of mixed things (could be goldfish, paper clips, etc) and a muffin tin, and have him sort
5. thread cheerios onto yarn
6. Roll play dough or newspaper into different sized balls - using palms then just fingertips
7. Crumpling a sheet of newspaper with just one hand
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