Effective Preschool Fine Motor Activities
Muscle Development

Preschool fine motor skill activities will provide the children with activities to develop and stimulate their fine motor muscle tone, as well as the strengthening of fine motor muscles.

Preschool Fine Motor Muscle Development Activities:

Activity 1:

Materials Needed For The Activity:

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3. Story Book.
4. Colored Clay.

Procedure:

• The teacher should read the preschool children a story, based on their favorite characters.
• The children should then be seated at their desks, and will receive a lump of colored clay each.



• The teacher will ask the children to mold their favorite story characters into finger puppets.
• The children should then use their finger puppets to play act the story, making use of their finger puppets.



The following activities will develop the children's fingers and hands strength. The finger activities should precede all writing preparation lessons.

The teacher should let the children do the exercises regularly.

Materials needed for the Activities:

1. Washing Pegs.
2. Soft Stress Balls.





Procedure:

• The preschool child should be seated at their desks, and place their hand palms on the table. They should lift a finger at a time, not moving the other fingers.
• The preschool children should do the exercise a few times, lifting each finger.
• The teacher should increase the number of times, they should lift their fingers, one by one, on a regular basis.
• The children should press their hand palms and fingers together, and press their fingertips hard onto one another. Hold for a number of seconds.
• The teacher should increase the number daily. The preschool children should then move an individual pair of fingers away from the other fingers, and back again. Increase number regularly.



• The preschool children should plait their fingers into one another, and lift an individual finger on the teachers command. Repeat with all the fingers. Increase the number regularly.
• They should each receive a wooden peck. The children should open and close the peck with their thumbs and pointer fingers and then continue with the thumbs and their middle fingers, continue with their thumbs and the other fingers. Each finger should open the peg 5x to start with and the teacher should then increase the amount daily.
• They could press their fingertips of their left hands to the fingertips of their right hands and keep it for 10 seconds and then remove their hands. They should repeat the simple exercise a few times, and increase the number of seconds, they press and hold their fingertips together, regularly.
• The children could also be given a soft stress ball to squeeze tightly, hold for at least ten seconds, alternate hands.



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