To help your little muscles in your hands you can do different exercises but they can be really tricky challenges.

The ladies know you can do it.

First of all if you can make some playdough.

Easy recipe is

2 cup of flour

4 table spoon of vegetable oil

1 table spoon of salt

Food colouring if colour desire but not necessary

Water

Put all flour, oil, salt and colouring into a bowl.

Mix together.

Add water and blend together until feels like playdough.

If it’s too sticky add more flour.

Have fun playing with playdough squash it, squeeze it, push it, pull it, cut it with scissors, break off big pieces and small pieces. Think of all the ways you play with playdough with your friends and show your family how to do it. Your fingers will love the exercise.

Now for a few challenges you can try anytime.

1. Stick spaghetti into the playdough and thread cheerios or any little circles onto spaghetti.
2. Stick a straw into the playdough and thread pasta shapes onto them.
3. Find lots of small stones and make a pattern or picture by sticking them onto the playdough.
4. Use the playdough to help join your sticks and stones together to build.
5. Make your name or numbers with the playdough.Other challenges to help exercise your fingers are

1. Use your two fingers on one hand or tweezers to pick up rice, small pasta pieces, small stones or any small objects. Keep everything you pick up to play with your playdough.
2. Make a threading board
3. Stick your small toys onto the ground with tape and pretend they are trapped. Unpick the tape to release them.
4. Practise doing buttons, zips, clips and other fastenings.
5. Peg clothes, signs, numbers, letters or anything you want onto a coat hanger.

Have fun threading, picking, pinching and playing. Love and cuddles from All the Ladies xxx