Provide opportunities for your baby to engage in fine motor activities. For example, explore textures in a treasure basket, drop objects into an adapted milk jug, pull fabric pieces from a tissue box, play with giant felt pieces, fill and empty egg cartons, stick and separate hair rollers, put toilet rolls into muffin tins, stack with nesting bowls, drop and shoot pom poms, etc.
Provide activities that enhance and encourage maturation of finger dexterity, wrist stability, pincer grasp, palmer grasp and hand arches.
Tactile sensorial activities and practical life activities should be considered in the environment for fine motor development.
Observe children’s readiness and hand preferences during the activities. Findings suggest that an infant using primarily the right or left hand for reaching and acquisition is more lateralised than another infant frequently alternating between the hands.