Hand Exercises For Kids

• Paper Crumpling
• Squeezing Sponges
• Spray Bottles
• Scissor Cutting
• Playdough Hand Exercises
• Gross Motor Activities for Hand Strength
• More Advanced Hand and Finger Exercises
  
• Related Pages on My Site

Have your child crumple up sheets of newspaper or scrap paper into the smallest, tightest ball they can manage.

As their hand strength increases, so the ball will get tighter.

Make it harder by asking your child crumple the paper with just one hand at a time.

Please make sure your child cleans the hands thoroughly afterwards as newspaper ink can be harmful.

Have your child squeeze water out of bath sponges, washing up sponges, or sponge balls. The sponge shown in the pic is a small one that was being used for sponge painting, but bigger sponges are also great.

Use one or two hands depending on the size of the sponge.

A lovely bath-time activity!

Spraying water out of a spray bottle can provide hours of endless fun while strengthening the hand muscles.

Have your child water the plants, spray an outside wall, or add a spray bottle to bath time fun!

If your child is able to handle a pair of scissors, give your child lots of opportunities to practice scissor cutting.

Although scissor cutting primarily works the tripod fingers, the whole hand can get stronger with scissor cutting. Make sure your child holds the scissors correctly, to get the most out of the activity.

Is your child struggling to cut neatly with scissors? 

Do you want to teach your preschooler how to cut with scissors but don't know where to start?

My 33 page scissor skills e-book will help answer your questions, and will give you step by step photographed activities to help your child master scissor skills.

View my Scissor Skills E-Book now!

Playdough is a great medium for strengthening little hands!

Try making these dinosaur footprints (well, we thought they looked like dinosaur footprints anyway!!) to strengthen the muscles on the back of the hand as well as the inner muscles of the palm.

Ideally, have each hand make its own set of footprints and crumple them up again, to help work on bilateral coordination skills at the same time!

• try my homemade playdough recipe (long lasting)
• my playdough page has lots of free activities as well as a free download - check it out!
  

My Fine Motor Activities E-Book contains more than 24 pages of photographed activities to help support your child's fine motor skills!

One accessible download that you can refer to over and over again!

View my Fine Motor Activities E-Book now!

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