The pop-up toy is a very popular activity among young children. The object of this activity is for children to manipulate the different knobs on the toy using their hands and fingers in order to reveal what is hidden underneath. Once revealed, they will push the characters down and do it all over again. This activity helps promote fine motor skills and cognitive skills such as problem solving as well as cause and effect.
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We offer a variety of materials that the children enjoy working with that encourage the development and coordination of hand movements. These activities help to foster small movements of the hands, offer a number of variations for grasping, eye/hand co-ordination, and encourage the use of two hands working together as well as separately.
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Sonia will show us how to cut a piece of paper on a line! You can draw or print out any lines or shapes you would like, and use child-safe scissors to cut them out. Let’s see some examples! Please click to watch the video!
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The Under 2 children work on grasping, reaching, releasing, and turning the wrist activities that develop their fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination. These activities help to prepare for future daily life activities such as writing, drawing, self-dressing, and cutting. (Please click for more information.)
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This activity requires the child to pick up the cube and place it through the hole at the top of the box. It encourages the child to use a pincer or palmer grasp as well as refines hand-eye coordination and fine-motor skills. This activity also develops a child’s understanding of object permanence.
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Opening and closing containers provides practice using both hands working together on various mechanisms, such as small boxes with lids, to zippered bags, screw-top jars, and much more! The refinement of movement and eye-hand coordination prepares a child for further practical life activities.
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Cutting with scissors encourages the child to use two hands simultaneously while fostering concentration, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. Learning to manipulate one’s fingers, hands, wrists, and the scissors in order to cut a thin strip of paper into many smaller pieces can be quite a challenge. Children really enjoy the cause and effect element of this activity.
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This ball and tray activity allows the children to practice their hand – eye coordination skills as well as explore the concept of object permanence by dropping and waiting for the ball to roll out from a hidden space.
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We offer puzzles to children on a daily basis. Activities involving fine motor development help children learn to rotate their wrists and use their fingers more constructively. Working with children help them learn to manipulate their hands in unique ways and even to use them simultaneously to complete a given task. Puzzles strengthen the muscles in the hands and wrists, promote cognitive development, and reinforce hand-eye coordination, which are skills they will use for the rest of their lives.
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Placing cubes on a vertical dowel aids a child’s growing ability to use the small muscles of their hands, sharpen hand-eye coordination, and explore different finger grasps.
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