Finger manipulation skills

Activities that requires small movements using finger skills:

• picking up small objects with thumb and index finger and turn within the hand
• use a pencil with a rubber and turn the pencil within the same hand to use the rubber
• pick up objects one at a time and hold in the same hand whilst picking them up e.g. coins
• twist pipe cleaners to make shapes
• ‘walk’ balls of clay or play dough across a table or up and down walls
• trace around and colour small areas
• colour a picture using small circles
• tying knots and undoing them
• draw a line in and out of a row of dots (like a slalom)
• write long lines of the same letters, all joined up
• use two different coloured marbles and put them in the palm of the hand. Make the two marbles change place without using the other hand
• paper folding