Fine motor skills refer to performing small, precise movements with your hands like tying your shoes or picking up a coin from the floor. A child who is still learning how you use his body would benefit from activities to improver motor skills, as would someone who has suffered a stroke or other brain injury.
Crafts
Making crafts is a good way to work on fine motor skills for children or for people who need to regain what they have lost. Molding shapes with clay, drawing or painting pictures or cutting shapes in paper with scissors requires many intricate movements with your hands, using multiple fingers in different directions.
Putty
Squeezing a ball of putty is a beneficial activity to strengthen your hands and fingers, which may give more control when using fine motor skills. You can squeeze the putty in your palm, or use individual fingers to press into it.
Games
Playing games is a way to add some fun and added challenge into fine motor skill training. Setting a timer and placing pegs into a pegboard or stacking blocks will get your fingers moving fast and with precision. You can also shoot marbles along the floor into a jar or shoebox. Children will enjoy putting on plays with finger puppets to get their fingers moving.
Everyday Activities
Movements that are used in everyday life can help tune your fine motor skills in a practical kind of way. Folding clothes, zipping zippers, tying shoes or making fists are all daily activities that must be learned.
