Modern research has shown that the speech centers of the brain are directly related to tactile sensations. Therefore, speech therapists in one voice recommend to develop fine motor skills of hands and fingers almost from birth.
For the effectiveness of exercises for the development of fine motor skills, it is necessary to use objects, various colors, shapes and textures. Children up to six months can be massaged, they will prepare the baby for new skills and give interesting feelings. It is very important not to turn lessons into a forced lesson. Create a friendly atmosphere and give the child toys for the development of fine motor skills with a smile.
Choose toys for motor development
You do not need to buy in the store all the educational toys that sellers will show you. Our mothers and grandmothers in their time, did not even have an idea that with the child it is necessary to specially conduct classes on the development of speech, toys for this special buy. All Soviet toys perfectly suited for this purpose. Many of them have survived to this day, and are now developing our children.
Let's recall some of them and learn about new offers in the category - toys that develop small motor skills:
- nesting dolls;
- pyramids;
- nevalyashki;
- cubes;
- rattles;
- balls, small balls;
- rubber figurines, which are easily compressed by hand;
- mosaic;
- puzzles;
- Sorter (toys, in which it is necessary to sort out different parts);
- laces;
- abaca (stands with sticks, on which you can string different objects).
All these toys develop thinking, logic, spatial vision, tactile sensations and activate the speech center.
You can find in your house toys for the development of speech:
- large beads;
- buttons;
- cups;
- jars (not beating);
- clothespins;
- boxes, caskets;
- various cereals;
- hair bands and much more.
Invite the child to transfer these items from one container to another, sort them by colors, glue them onto double-sided scotch tape, etc.
Role of toys in child development
The child learns the world through the game. This is his natural need. Games in toys teach the child the methods of communication, develop creative abilities and activate thinking.
Toys accompany the child for life. The most beloved and important among them appear, therefore, a little person learns to express emotions and feelings.
Give children toys and play with them.