9/22/2023 0 Comments Soft alphabet blocks![]() The brain also must coordinate input about gravity, movement, and balance involving the vestibular system. We are able to coordinate our movements effectively to manage our day’s activities with the proprioceptive system. Instinctively, we know that lifting a feather requires very little pressure and effort, while moving a large backpack requires more work. Our bodies are able to grade and coordinate movements based on the way muscles move, stretch, and contract. Proprioception allows us to apply more or less pressure and force in a task. The proprioception system receives input from the muscles and joints about body position, weight, pressure, stretch, movement and changes in position in space. Building with blocks helps children integrate the proprioceptive sense– Proprioception is one of our sensory systems that focuses on awareness of how one’s body moves through space, and how much effort is needed to move in certain ways. Here is more information on motor planning in kids.Ħ. Building with blocks helps children develop motor planning skills– Motor planning is a physical action that requires observing and understanding the task (ideation), planning out an action in response to the task (organization), and the act of carrying out the task (execution). Building with blocks is a great way to build these sub-skills as kids attempt to build with blocks to construct with blocks. Here are more bilateral coordination activities that develop this essential motor skill.ĥ. Building with blocks builds bilateral coordination as children stabilize a stack of blocks with one hand and use the other hand to release a block at the top of the stack with graded precision. All of these tasks requires one hand to manipulate objects with more precision and dexterity while the other acts as a stabilizer. Still another example of bilateral coordination is cutting with scissors while holding and manipulating the paper with the nondominant hand. Another example is mastering a zipper while stabilizing the material with the other hand. Building with blocks helps children develop bilateral coordination– Establishing a hand dominance and laterality is an important fine motor skill that transfers to tasks like writing with a pencil and holding the paper with the nondominant hand. Like blocks, there are many toys to promote eye-hand coordination.Ĥ. Stacking, knocking blocks over, building a block train, making towers, and using blocks in constructive play are powerful tools to developing eye-hand coordination skills. ![]() Toddlers can manipulate and build with blocks while developing this skill through play. ![]() Catching a ball, writing with a pencil, cutting with scissors, are just a few examples of eye-hand coordination tasks that rely on the baseline skills developed from a young age. Visual motor integration is a main piece of the visual processing skills puzzle, and coordinating movements with visual information is essential for so many functional tasks in learning and play. Building with blocks helps children develop eye-hand coordination- From a very young age, when babies develop the ability to see and move their arm to reach for a block, those eye-hand coordination skills are beginning to develop. This blog post on fine motor precision and graded release explains more on this skill and has a fun fine motor activity to develop graded precision in fine motor skills.ģ. These graded movements are essential for precision and dexterity in functional tasks as children gain a sense of personal awareness and how their body moves through space in order to pick up and manipulate objects. They are also able to place a block onto a stack of blocks without knocking over the entire tower. By gaining these skills, children are able to pick on one block from a stack without toppling the entire block tower. This occurs on a stability basis (use of the core and shoulder to stabilize the arm) and on a dexterous basis (precise, small, and graded movements of the fingers). Building with blocks helps kids develop graded fine motor skills- As small children progress through typical grasp progression, they begin to gain more control over those motor skills. By picking up on block, manipulating it in the hand, and placing it on a stack of blocks, children progress from a gross grasp to a radial palmer grasp and then to a digital palmer grasp, followed by a tip-to-tip grasp using the pointer finger and thumb.Ĭheck out this developmental checklist for more information.Ģ. Blocks are a fine motor power tool when it comes to working on grasp development! Read below for the specifics of small kids playing with blocks. Building with blocks help kids develop grasp- From the time toddlers can grasp a block with their whole hand, grasp development begins.
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