Fine Motor Tips and Tricks

Check out these links for some great fine motor activities. 

• Teaching Little Hands to Use Scissors
• Learn to Turn Paper While Cutting
• Name Writing for Preschoolers
• Activities to develop fine motor skills
• Great List of Fine Motor Activities by Skill Area
• Sugaraunts (another great list)
• Therapy Street for Kids (and another great list by skill area)
• Free Fine Motor Activities to Help Your Child
• Shoe Tying Tips and Tricks
• An adapted she tying method
   

  Fine Motor Activities by skill area

  Separating the sides of the hand video

   

   
   

Special Issues

• Pencil Pressure Practice
• Different Pens for Different Pressure
• Left Handed Resources
• Left Handed School Supplies
• DIY Weighted Pencil
• Hand dominance
• The Dominance Factor

A Few Articles

• Losing our Grip, More Students Entering KG Without Fine Motor Skills
• NY Times Article:  What is Lost as Handwriting Fades
• Autism Spectrum Disorders and Handwriting