How to help your toddler learn to use scissors
For your 2-year-old, scissor practice supports fine motor skills and has cognitive benefits as well. Here's how to introduce scissors safely.
For your 2-year-old, scissor practice supports fine motor skills and has cognitive benefits as well. Here's how to introduce scissors safely.
Here are 5 OT-approved fine motor activities that build hand muscle strength and control—which helps prepare your 2-year-old to grasp and use a pencil.
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Everyone talks about the “terrible twos,” but that outdated phrase isn’t fair to your 2-year-old. They’re not terrible—they’re just in a period of rapid brain growth. Balancing independence and connection is the challenge of this exciting year, when your child likely wants to do everything on their own one minute and be cuddled the next. … Continued
The Sensory Switchboard lets your baby explore cause and effect while practicing fine motor skills.
Studies find that labeling an object as your child handles it can help them connect what they have in their hands to the words you say.
These ideas help your toddler move from a fisted grip to one that uses the strength of their fingers and thumb.
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Help your toddler explore what it feels and looks like to paint on different surfaces as they build fine motor and language skills.