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http://practicalpages.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/fine-handwriting-needs-fine-muscles/
you'll find a wonderful list of ideas that I have copied below.
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Here are some games and activities that will build up upper body gross motor muscles:
Wheelbarrow races on hands while someone holds feet
- Hanging on rings on the jungle gym
- Throwing and catching big beach balls
- Playing swing ball
- Swimming
- Jumping with a skipping rope
- Bowling
Now for some fine motor activities and games:
- Squeezing clay, putty or plasticine
- Placing clothes pegs along a ruler or around a container
- Tearing paper - first colour a square paper with big crayons, then tear into tiny squares, then glue these pieces on to a picture
- crunching paper into balls
- Opening fingers with elastic bands on them
- Finger actions with songs
- Kneading bread dough
- Rolling and making biscuit balls
- Picking vegetables and pulling stalks off strawberries/ tomatoes/ shucking corn
- Drawing in pudding mix on a plastic cloth/ salt on a tray/ shaving cream on window or mirror
- Cutting with scissors
- Tying knots, bows, shoelaces or rope
- Doing buttons, zips, press studs, hooks and eyes, cuff links and fasteners
- Screwing and unscrewing bolts and nuts
- Lacing with card and shoelaces
- Beading with cotton reels and thick thread
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