Fine and Gross Motor Coordination Activities

Motor coordination allows us to perform the most diverse coordinated movements and can be classified in two ways: gross motor skills and fine motor skills and in this post we selected several Motor Coordination Activities, check out:

Motor coordination it is the ability to more efficiently use skeletal muscles (large muscles), resulting in a more efficient, plastic and economical overall action. This kind of coordination allows the child or adult to dominate the body in space, controlling the roughest movements.

Fine Motor Coordination Activities

Coordination is often worked without being aware of the most common activities of daily life, so I leave you some tips for activities:

Motor Coordination Activities to print

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Motor Coordination Activities – Pincer movement with pencil

Teach how to use the pencil correctly with the pincer movement, just with a peg

A simple idea can favor prehension (the act of holding a pencil) in adults and children with motor dysfunction: use a clothespin!

You don't need anything else, just the catch:

don't miss seeing toosome tips on how to work motor coordination

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Space and Visual Motor Coordination Activities

Materials:

• Shoe box;
  
• Napkin paper rolls;
  
• E.V.A in the desired colors;
  
• Hot glue;
  
• Colored Colorsets (optional);
  
• Gouache paint (optional);
• Scissors.

Procedure:

• Cover the box with colorset or eva.
  
• Cover as you like or paint the rolls of napkin paper.
  
• Glue one of the bases of the already decorated roll to the box.
  
• With the leftover E.V.A, make little rings that can be fitted into the bases and that's it!

Also check out: Fine motor coordination exercises

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Motor Coordination Activities - Working the Colors

Below are some ideas for Motor Coordination Activities, to work with colors in the classroom:

Be sure to follow this other publication on this topic: Activities to develop fine motor skills

The consequences of not developing motor coordination are mainly the impaired spatial notion, precarious laterality and delayed reaction time.

"Children with symptoms of developmental coordination disorder ("DCD") at age seven age may be at greater risk for depression and other mental health problems from the age of ten. years old". This is the conclusion of a study carried out at the University of Bristol, in Great Britain. "Children with 'DCD' have motor skills problems and find it difficult to perform daily activities, such as tying shoelaces, riding a bicycle, writing and playing sports."

Motor Coordination Activities - Twister

Twister is a very fun game that also uses the body and works on children's motor coordination and flexibility.

You will need:

• Plasticized fabric, light in color, and square (ideally it should have the following measurement: 1.25m by 1.55m);
• line sewing;
• Sewing machine, or needle – you can sew any way you like 4 different colors of acrylic paint of your choice;
• paper plates;
• Scissors Tape Measure;
•  Pencil Brushes;

Step by step to do:

1. Start by cutting the chosen fabric in measures 1.25m by 1.55m. To finish, make the hem around the entire fabric.
2. Place the fabric on the floor and, keeping a small distance between each plate, place the paper plates on it. You will make 4 rows with 5 dishes each. The plates will be the mold of the colored circles in the game. Use a pencil to draw the outlines of the dishes.
3. Then use the plates themselves as a base for the paint and paint the circles. Remember: each row must contain circles of the same color.
4. Now just let the paint dry properly.
5. Finally, use the game outline below and a pencil to play.

Molds:

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Motor Coordination Activities - Global Psychomotor

COMES AND GOES

objective:

• Develop broad, visual-motor coordination, attention and muscle tone

Activity:

• The activity is developed with a toy that must be used in pairs, the toy can be developed with pet bottles, adhesive tapes, rings and wires or purchased at specialized stores.

Activity development:

• The participants in the activity should hold the plastic rings at the ends, giving impulse, when opening their arms, to the object for the other end.

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ROPE

Objective:

• Develop broad motor coordination, body schema, stimulate spatial and temporal orientation, expand balance, laterality and improve muscle tone.

Activity:

• The activity is developed with a rope of four meters on average.

Development of activities:

• It can be used on the floor, where the child walks barefoot on the rope, with open arms, trying to maintain balance.

Taking advantage of the same activity, but now the child will walk backwards on the rope.

Still stretched out on the floor, the child jumps with both feet together to left and right consecutively.

The rope can be lifted four inches off the ground for the child to jump from side to side.

The rope can be used by the pair as a tug-of-war, in the middle of the space used must have a mark on the floor, to visualize who is winning the tug-of-war

Children can jump rope.

hula hoop

objective

• Develop broad motor coordination, body schema, stimulate spatial and temporal orientation, expand balance, laterality and improve muscle tone.

Activity

• The activity is developed with four hula hoops on average.

Development of activities

• One child must hold the hula hoop, while another child comes crawling to pass inside the hula hoop.

Rotate the hula hoop around the waist and other parts of the body such as neck and arm.

With some hula hoops lined up side by side on the floor, walk with your left leg on the left hula hoop and your right leg on the right hula hoop.

Still with the hula hoops on the ground, jump with both feet from one hula hoop to another.

With a hula hoop just jump in and out.

Play with the hula hoop in your hand, turning it like a wheel.

Pass the hula hoop over the entire body starting at head height.

Motor Coordination Activities - Fine Psychomotor

LINENS

objective

• Develop fine motor skills, visual-motor skills, body schema, stimulate spatial orientation, laterality and improve muscle tone.

Activity

• The activity is developed with tacks prepared with plasticized cardboard and figures or purchased ready-made.

Activity development

• The child must work the basting in a free way or guided by the teacher. It is possible to work the tack associating other knowledge such as geometric shapes, numbers, letters, animals, means of transport.

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SPONGES

objective

• Develop fine motor skills, visual-motor skills, body schema and improve muscle tone.

Activity

• The activity is carried out with a basin with water and several colored sponges, with different textures/hardness.

Development of activities

• Put the sponges in the water and ask the child to remove them one by one, squeezing well, removing all the water from the sponge.