What Are Motor Skills Milestones?

Motor Development-Hand and Finger Skills: refers to the teaching of hand and finger skills to children when they are young.

Motor Development-Hand and Finger Skills

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Motor Development-Hand and Finger Skills: refers to the teaching of hand and finger skills to children when they are young.

A 2-year-old can already easily fiddle with small objects. He flips through books, builds towers of six blocks, takes off shoes, and unzips large. His wrists, fingers, and palms can perform coordinated movements, so he can rotate the door handle, unscrew the jar cap, use a tea cup with one hand, and peel off sugar paper.

One of the main achievements of the year is learning to pull. Hand him a crayon to see what happens: he will hold the crayon apart from his thumb and other fingers, and then clumsyly stretch his index and middle fingers towards the tip of the pen. This way of holding the pen didn't look elegant, but it was enough for him to create his first artwork through straight lines and curves.

Fortunately, children of this age are more focused and play quietly than children of 18 months in doing everything. The longer he or she pays attention when you flip through a book or magazine, the more actively you can engage and flip through the book with you. He is also very interested in activities such as painting, building blocks or placing objects, so building blocks and chain construction toys can make him play for a long time. If you let him use crayons or draw with his fingers, his creative impulse will be very rich.

Milestones in hand and finger development at the end of this phase

Draw vertical lines, horizontal lines and circles with pencils or crayons;

page by page;

Build a tower with more than 6 blocks;

Hold the pencil at the writing position;

Tighten or unscrew wide mouth bottle caps, nuts and latches;

Turn the handle.