Writing and Your Preschool Child:
Many preschool children have yet to learn how to hold a crayon or pencil correctly; they generally will grasp it with their entire fist and use the stronger muscles of their upper arm to move it across the paper. As your child develops, he or she will begin to use the finer muscles of their fingers to hold the crayon or pencil and make smaller movements involving wrists and fingers to write and draw. While the correct grasp can be demonstrated and even practiced, this process is another stage in your child's development that eventually just takes time.
Art activities such as painting, playdough, and fingerpainting are all things that are carefully planned specifically for the purpose of strengthening those fine motor skills needed for writing and drawing. Putting legos and other snap-toys together, lacing beads, putting puzzles together, and other small manipulative toys, also develop these muscles. As your child's skills develop, more concrete tasks are introduced: tracing lines on a paper, writing in sand or shaving cream on the table with their index fingers, and specific coloring and drawing tasks.
For more information on this subject, please visit this link.
For Fine Motor Skills Developmental Milestones, please click here.
Art activities such as painting, playdough, and fingerpainting are all things that are carefully planned specifically for the purpose of strengthening those fine motor skills needed for writing and drawing. Putting legos and other snap-toys together, lacing beads, putting puzzles together, and other small manipulative toys, also develop these muscles. As your child's skills develop, more concrete tasks are introduced: tracing lines on a paper, writing in sand or shaving cream on the table with their index fingers, and specific coloring and drawing tasks.
For more information on this subject, please visit this link.
For Fine Motor Skills Developmental Milestones, please click here.