{"id":7791,"date":"2020-03-27T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=7791"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T14:24:08","slug":"ms-dunne-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=7791","title":{"rendered":"Ms Dunne – Motor Skills Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fine Motor Skill Activities:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPractice Number Formation:<\/strong> Drawing 1,2,3,4,5 in sand\/flour\/sugar\/soil from the garden\/shaving foam.<\/p>\n

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Clothes pegs:<\/strong> Allow your child to practice pinching pegs open and closed. Keep it fun by having them make a long line of clothes pegs by pinning one to the other. Or they can use one clothes peg to pinch cotton balls from one bowl to another.<\/p>\n

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Playdough<\/strong>\u00a0is great as it encourages a variety of ways to use hands.<\/h5>\n
Guide your child through simple activities with the play dough, then let their imagination take over. You can:<\/h5>\n
\u2022 give a plastic knife to \u201ccut\u201d the play dough into smaller pieces.<\/h5>\n
\u2022 help turn one play dough into smaller balls.<\/h5>\n
\u2022 show how to roll the play dough into \u201csnakes\u201d\/<\/h5>\n
\u2022 mix different-colored play dough together to form new colors.<\/h5>\n
\u2022 flatten the playdough into pancake shapes.<\/h5>\n
\u2022 squeeze, stretch and pinch the play dough.<\/h5>\n

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Scissors:<\/strong>\u00a0Using a child friendly scissors is a fantastic way to develop fine motor skills. Use smaller pieces of card stock or construction paper to make for easier holding and cutting. Children can also use the pieces they have cut to create a collage.<\/p>\n

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Painting<\/strong>\u00a0allows your child to use paintbrushes to develop fine motor skills. Experiment with different-sized paintbrushes, as well as a variety of things to paint on. One day children might paint on a large cardboard box, and another on finger paint paper.<\/p>\n

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Lego Toys:<\/strong>\u00a0To start, give your child larger Lego blocks to practice building and getting used to locking and unlocking the pieces together.<\/h5>\n
Then, as they get better playing with those, offer the standard Lego pieces, small enough to truly hone in on their fine motor skills.<\/h5>\n

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Buttoning:<\/strong> Buttoning and unbuttoning clothes or teddy\/doll’s clothes.<\/p>\n

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Make a necklace:<\/strong> Using either cheerios or pasta, create a necklace by placing them onto a string.<\/p>\n

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Gardening\/Planting:<\/strong> There are parts of gardening that require smaller muscle control. For instance, transferring seedlings into a garden requires hand-eye coordination skills to safely carry the smaller plant to the new hole. Your child will also need to be able to grasp a trowel to dig and to use a pincer grasp when picking up seeds to plant.<\/p>\n

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Gross Motor Skills Activities:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing<\/strong>, either freestyle or through songs with movements, such as “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes,” “I’m a Little Teapot,” “The Wheels on the Bus,” or “Popcorn,” provides lots of movement.<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Standing on one foot for 5 seconds<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Standing on tiptoes for 3 seconds without moving feet<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Hops on one foot 5 times<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Walks backwards on a line<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Target Practice: Toss a ball into a hula hoop<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Catching and Throwing a ball.<\/h5>\n

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Move like an animal<\/strong><\/h5>\n
You\u2019ll need some open space, but this is a great way to get kids using new muscles. Here are some ideas:<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Move like a bird (run with arms outstretched)<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Move like a snake (wiggle on tummies on the floor)<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Move like a bear (walk on all fours)<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Move like a frog (get down on haunches and hop)<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Move like a kangaroo (take big leaps with arms in front of chest)<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Move like an elephant (with heavy stomping)<\/h5>\n
\u2022\u00a0Move like a penguin (waddle with ankles close together and arms pinned to sides)<\/h5>\n

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Gross-motor-activity-cards<\/a><\/div>\n
Fine-motor-skills-activity-cards<\/a><\/div>\n

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Fine Motor Skill Activities: Practice Number Formation: Drawing 1,2,3,4,5 in sand\/flour\/sugar\/soil from the garden\/shaving foam. Clothes pegs: Allow your child to practice pinching pegs open and closed. Keep it fun by having them make a long line of clothes pegs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7793,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}