pincer grip
Games to develop and refine the pincer grip
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Colormatching with clothes pins
Colors from yellow to purple and from light to dark.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: colors shading
- Skills: Fein motor skills Pincergrip Muscles needed for writing
- Type of play: Matching game
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Pasta in a bag
Pasta in all colors and shapes make the most beautiful necklaces.
Put
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Colors Patterns
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Lacing
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Felt loops
Making long lines or chaplets out of felt bands - practising opening and closing buttons, snaps
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Latches
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Practical life
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In and out
Opportunities for the smallest to practise filling and emptying things - and very often, the
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Colors Filling and pouring
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Peg game
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Pinch me
Attaching paperclips to tippy-toes.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Colors
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Peg game
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Patterns with foam shapes
Laying free or given patterns with foam shapes.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: patterns symmetry
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip
- Type of play: Tile-based game
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Sorting sticks
Putting sticks into bags, and out, and in again...
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Colors Filling and pouring
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Sorting game
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Sensory tray - a small sensorybin
A tray of bits and bobs and a little bit of rice - the sensory bin in small size can also be a
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- senses used: Sense of smell Sense of sight Sense of touch
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincer grip
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Patterns on the light table
Lay out and explore exciting luminous patterns.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Patterns Symmetry
- Skills: Pincer grip Persistance Concentration
- Type of play: Free open-ended play
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Rainbow Peg dolls
Replay family, friends or the nursery group - with these peg dolls anything the fantasy
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Vocabulary
- Skills: Pincer grip
- Type of play: free open-ended play
- Sensitiv period: Sensitivity for Language