How often do you need to use your hand in everyday life?🧐🖐🏼

Almost all the time, right?

We often take our “fine motor skills” for granted, but to achieve this level of mastery in using our hands is no easy task! 🙌🏻

How our fine motor skills are developed can have a huge impact on our performance in self-care, learning, and even work.

Follow us on this journey to learn more about fine motor development!😉

🔷 0-6 Months

• Voluntary grasp
• Controlled reach
• Hold toy with both hands and play at midline

🔷 6-9 Months

• Transfer objects from one hand to another 
• Grasps small items (e.g. block) with first 3 fingers
• Reach and grasp for things and attempt to put into mouth

🔷 9-12 Months

• Grasps small items(e.g. raisin) with pincer grasp (thumb and one finger)
• Flip the thick pages of board books one at a time.
• Stabilize with one hand and play toys with the other

🔷 1-1.5 Years

• Starts to scoop up food with spoon
• Scribbles with whole arm movement
• Able to put things into containers
• Builds tower of 2-3 small blocks

🔷 1.5-2 Years

• Able to connect 2 pieces of building toy together steadily 
• Starts to self-feed with spoon
• Turn pages 2-3 at a time

🔷 2-3 Years

• Strings 4 large beads 
• Holds crayon or marker with thumb and fingers (not fist)
• Imitates vertical, horizontal, and circular strokes
• Turns picture books one page at a time

🔷 3-4 Years

• Builds tower of 9 small blocks
• Thread small beads
• Starts to color inside the lines
• Imitates cross; Copies circle
• Snips paper with scissors
• Holds spoon and fork with first 3 fingers

🔷 4-5 Years

• Cuts continuously on a line
• Copies cross, X, and square
• Starts using leaning chopsticks

🔷 5-6 Years

• Colors within lines 
• Copies triangle
• Draws picture with basic geometric shapes (e.g. a house with square wall and triangle roof)
• Draws people with at least 6 body parts
• Copies numbers and letters