Simple, inexpensive objects can also be used for supporting playful imitation and promoting fine motor skills, such as rattles, push toy cars, stuffed animals, child-sized teacups, hairbrushes, or blocks.

Using simple objects provides infants with an opportunity to focus on the object, maintain eye contact, and gesture or speak to the adult to ask for assistance in working with the object.

In a study of 85 children, a significant correlation between social quotient and total score of fine motor skills variable was found. There is a significant association between fine motor skills with respect to visual-motor skills of hands and social competence and maturity in children.