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Fine Motor Development means mastering precise and accurate small muscle movements of the fingers and hands in order to reach, grasp and manipulate small objects.
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Typical Skills
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Draws person with features including head, arms, legs and trunk
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Cuts and pastes using art materials
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Paints with a large brush on large paper
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Manipulates clay, playdough
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Draws lines, simple shapes and a few letters
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Dresses and undresses with little help
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Emerging Skills
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Carries a cup without spilling what’s in it
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Cuts on a line or cuts out simple shapes along an outline with scissors
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Strings small beads to make a necklace
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Prints recognizable numbers, letters and words, including her own name
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- Give your child sensory materials to play with like sand or water along with different sized containers, sieves and utensils
- Make playdough for your child, scented with spices (vanilla, mint) and food colouring
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- Enjoy the pleasurable feelings of the materials while learning about volume
- Learn about the sense of smell and how colours are made while manipulating the dough to make shapes
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- Make pencils, crayons and chalk available often
- Offer a variety of arts and crafts materials for your child to make anything she wishes, e.g., boxes, glue, ribbons, tubes, yarn, scissors, tape, etc.
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- Get used to colouring, drawing pictures or exploring letters and numbers
- Use her imagination and fine motor skills to make her own creations
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- Play board games that involve counting and moving player pieces, e.g., Snakes and Ladders
- Print your child’s name using dots for each letter that he has to connect
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- Learn the concept of counting forward and backwards in order to win a game
- Begin to recognize and copy shapes of letters
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