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Helping Your Toddler With His Motor Skills

As everyone knows, toddlers are always on the move and full of
energy. While normal play is a natural stage in the development
of your child's gross motor skills, you may also need to have
him participate in activities that can help to tune in his fine
motor skills.

Gross motor skills are those that involve basic movements, such
as walking and jumping. Fine motor skills are those that deal
with the small movements that are executed with precision and
usually involve the fingers, hands, and wrists. One way that you
can help your child to develop these skills is to play with
building blocks. By stacking these items, your child will learn
to carefully place one block on top of the other. This exercise
can also help to build his decision-making skills, as he will
need to plan how to place the blocks to build the design that he
wants.

Allowing your child to perform simple tasks for himself can also
help to develop his fine motor skills. Working with him and
teaching him how to button his shirt and work a zipper are
excellent ways to give him practice at performing precision
tasks. You can also allow him to help you with certain household
tasks, such as folding washcloths. The folding process will also
require your child to plan his movements in order to fold a
cloth into a square.

Helping in the kitchen and feeding himself is also excellent
ways in which you can help your child to develop his fine motor
skills. His coordination will be tuned as he learns to put food
on a spoon and to aim it towards his mouth. Allowing him to
butter his own toast can also help to develop the precision
movements in his wrist.

Another good way to help your toddler to develop his fine motor
skills is to allow him to color and draw. You should make sure
to have washable crayons and markers as little ones may not
understand that they are only suppose to do this activity on
paper. Finger-painting is another activity that you can share
with him that will help him to concentrate and focus on using
one finger at a time. Both these activities will also allow him
to explore his imagination and use any creative talents that he
might possibly possess.

An easy exercise for your child to help develop these skills as
well as his coordination is to sing and dance to "activity"
songs that require movement while singing. A few examples of
these are "If You're Happy and You Know It", "Ring Around the
Rosey," and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." There are also a number of
interactive CDs and DVDs that focus on children's songs that
your child can listen and dance to. These products can teach
your youngster how to follow directions. The DVDs also contain a
large amount of color and movement to keep your child's
attention focused.

These are just a few of the many activities that you can share
with your toddler to help him to develop his fine motor skills.
For more information, you can discuss your child's skills with
your doctor or search online for more creative ideas to help
your child to improve his motor skills, coordination, and
balance.

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