What is Finger Dexterity?
Separation of the two sides of the hand
Finger Isolation
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Our finger dexterity activity began with a little prep work. We received these acrylic paints from craftprojectideas.com for free and were so excited to use them in a fun painting project.
I painted the back side of large bubble wrap with different colors. We let these dry (and it was slightly difficult to remain patient!!)
Once our paints were dry, we got our fingers ready to play some finger dexterity games! I had Little Guy get his fingers ready by making “legs”. This is a great way to encourage use of the two sides of the hand. He tucked his pinkie and ring fingers into the palm of his hand and got his pointer and middle finger busy as they “walked” around.
We played a color matching game with the colored bubbles. I called out a color and he had to “walk” his fingers to the color and pop the color. He was working on color awareness at the same time as we practiced finger dexterity.
As I called out defferent colors, he had to “walk” his fingers around to the dffernet colors. He really workied on those finger isolation skills as he searched for a bubble that was not yet popped. Other ways to work on finger isolation and separation of the two sides of the hand include using small objects in manipulation like crafting pom poms.
Even Baby Girl wanted to get in on the fun! This finger dexterity exercise is a great way to “warm up” the hands before a handwriting or typing task for older children. When there is weakness in the small muscles of the hands, it is often times, difficult for children to write, color, or type with appropriate grasp and positioning of the fingers and wrist. A dexterity exercise like this one is a fun way to play and get those muscles of the hand moving and strengthened in order to improve endurance and positioning.
Looking for more fun ways to practice finger dexterity? These are some fun games and activities you may want to try:
Beach Play Dough
Itsy Bitsy Spider and other finger play games
gears building set
Shadow puppets
Clay Rocks activity
Tricky Fingers
tweezers
eye droppers
Operation Game
2 thoughts on “Finger Dexterity Exercise Game for Fine Motor Skills”
These bubble wrap ideas look so much fun. My 8 and 10 year olds adore bubble wrap. I always save it for our junk box. You've inspired me to add paint and create something they'd enjoy playing with!
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