Early Childhood Care and Development

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION 3(2+1)

Lesson 02: Motor Development during Early Childhood Period

Fine motor skills

Fine motor skills involve the activities for fine muscle coordination that are related to muscular control of the eyes, hands and fingers as well as coordination of eye and hand movement. These activities lead to development of:

• Self help skills— self feeding, self dressing and self grooming.
• Writing
• Drawing, painting, clay modeling
• Reading
• Skills related to activities which require very fine work like watch repair etc.
  
  
  
  

Some common motor skills are

Gross motor	Fine motor
Walking	Tearing
Running	Pasting
Climbing	Cutting
Jumping	Sorting
Balancing	Drawing
Hopping	Colouring
Skipping	Painting
Cycling	Threading
Catching	Writing
Throwing
Kicking
Swimming