{"id":991,"date":"2020-05-29T01:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/?p=991"},"modified":"2020-05-29T01:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:10:17","slug":"building-fine-motor-skills-hand-and-finger-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/2020\/05\/29\/building-fine-motor-skills-hand-and-finger-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Building fine motor skills &#8211; hand and finger exercises!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Using and strengthening fine motor skills will help to develop pencil control, handwriting, use scissors\/tools, and independence skills, e.g doing up zips\/buttons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Play ideas;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cut cooked spaghetti into lots of pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Thread the uncooked pasta, e.g penne on a straw.<\/p>\n<p>Trace around your hand with a pencil.<\/p>\n<p>Thread pipe cleaners\/uncooked spaghetti through a kitchen colander, or kitchen\/toilet roll holder (with holes cut into the cardboard).<\/p>\n<p>Peg clothes on a line.<\/p>\n<p>Squeeze play dough, roll with a rolling pin, press cookie cutters into dough.<\/p>\n<p>Stick uncooked spaghetti into the dough (standing up), and use it to stack buttons\/cheerios.<\/p>\n<p>Use tongs to pick up and transfer small objects, e.g small pom poms, to e.g other trays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using and strengthening fine motor skills will help to develop pencil control, handwriting, use scissors\/tools, and independence skills, e.g doing up zips\/buttons. Play ideas; Cut cooked spaghetti into lots of pieces. Thread the uncooked pasta, e.g penne on a straw. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/2020\/05\/29\/building-fine-motor-skills-hand-and-finger-exercises\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/dalrymplepspecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}