Development of fine motor skills in preschool children

The concept of "fine motor skills" can be replaced by "sleight of fingers", that is, the child's ability to produce finger fingers and even legs purposeful coordinated movements, performing fine work. An example of such a motor is assembling small parts, knitting, button fastening, lacing of shoes and many other actions.

Some may ask: why should it be developed? The baby will grow up and learn how to get dressed, dress, and knitting does not need anything at all. It's not about knitting, it's about the fact that there are a lot of nerve endings in the fingers of people, which transmit any received signal to the appropriate parts of the brain. Even a simple stroking of your baby's palm will not remain unnoticed by his brain. The more diverse signals he receives, the faster his many abilities will develop. The development of fine motor skills has a direct impact on how quickly and how correctly the child begins to talk. It turns out that in our brain the centers that are responsible for speech and finger movement are located very close, that is, one affects the other.

To begin development of fine motor skills follows from the first days of a life of the kid.

This is done with the help of caring mother's hands. You need to crash a few times a day for a minute or two stroking your fingers and palms, while saying sweet words. In the future, the procedure of massage is brought to five minutes. By stroking gradually added flexion and extension of fingers. In addition to this simple exercise on the development of fine motor skills, you can use the so-called mammas. This ornament from large wooden beads mummy puts itself on the neck during feeding, and the kid with interest touches them with fingers.

When a child grows to five to seven months, you can add elements of the game to the finger gymnastics process. Everyone knows the "forty-crow" count, who cooked a delicious gruel, fed small children. During these words, my mother takes a finger in the palm of the baby's hand. At the words "this gave" one finger is bent. And so to the last finger. At this age it is useful to give the child in the hands of various objects, explaining their elementary meaning or property. For example, a handkerchief. It is soft, it can be twisted and squeezed. They wipe their noses. Or a spoon (wooden). It is hard and warm. She eats porridge. Comb for combing. To the child of six-seven months very much it is pleasant to "brush" both itself, and mum.

By the year the development of fine motor skills can be carried out with the help of simple toys, such as pyramids, cubes, tablets with wooden carnations, to which the baby will cling rings.

By the year and a half of the game for the development of fine motor skills it is necessary to complicate, adding to them a molding of plasticine, braid, lacing. It is desirable to take plasticine, which is specially designed for such small children. It does not stick to the skin of your hands, it does not get dirty. At the age of one and a half to two years, you can attract a child to classes with cereals. This does not mean that it should be planted to touch the bag of buckwheat. Exercises with cereals and beans are held in a game form. Fasolinki are transferred from one jar to another. The grains are poured out on a tray or a large plate and the child draws different figurines in her fingers . Another option - in the rump hides a small object and the child is invited to find it. At home in everyday life, you can find many items for developing motor games with the child. This is the clothespins that you need to pin on the string, and the handkerchiefs that should be hidden in the cam, and the buttons that need to be arranged into piles in color or size.

In addition to such common things you can buy different games. There are a lot of them, for every age. Simple and complex labyrinths of wires with beads, mosaic, puzzles, plastic and metal designers, lacing books. Timely and correct development of fine motor skills will help your child learn how to talk faster, learn writing techniques more easily, and express their thoughts more freely, which means that it is easier to adapt to school and to show good results in the teaching.