Fine Motor Activities

  • These are activities that involve smaller movements of the hands, such as picking up smaller objects. These tasks develop grip needed as for holding a pencil as well as using a keyboar with typing.

    Activities to work on:

    1. Playing cards - shuffeling, dealing, card games, sorting the cards by color/suit

    2. Stacking coins - quarters, then nickles, then pennies, then dimes.

    3. Counting change

    4. Chaining Paperclips

    5. Building with Legos

    6. Playing board games - such as checkers, monopoly

    7. Touch the tips of each of your fingers to your thumb - work for speed