MODELING AND FINE MOTOR SKILLS FOR KIDS

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Our body is an absolutely perfect mechanism, where everything is connected and influences each other.

Do you know our feet have many special areas with projection of all our organs and systems? China medicine knows it well.
The same is with our hands and....their fine motor skills. They are connected with brains.

Any finger games develop not only dexterity and accuracy of the hands, but also the child's brain, stimulate creativity, imagination and speech. The purpose of the dexterity and precision development of the fingers is to develop the relationship between the cerebral hemispheres and synchronize their work.

In the right hemisphere of the brain, images of objects and phenomena appear, and in the left they find verbal expression. And this process takes place thanks to the "bridge" between the right and left hemispheres. The stronger this bridge, the faster and more often nerve impulses go along it, and we have better attaention, reaction, speech of thinking.

So it's clear parents should NOT develop speech or memory directly, but pay attention to fingers and hands, and they will help all the rest processes.

The field of fine motor skills includes a wide variety of movements: from primitive gestures, such as gripping objects, to very small movements, on which, for example, a person's handwriting and modeling.

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My son never liked modeling, and I was sad because it's a nice way to train fine motor skills, I had to create other games for him.

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But now... at last he likes it! Thanks to air plasticine and its softness;)
He saw nice Youtube lessons where kids are taught to create something from it, and he was eager to try and asked me to buy air plasticine.

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OK! He couldn't wait until we came home and started to create his new masterpieces;)

Here they are, look, guys!

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he made fall vegetables - corn,carrot, pumpkin and beans
Not bad, I think!

And I must admit modeling attracted me too;) so now we are a team of crasy modellers:)



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Playing with modelling clay was one of my favourite things to do as a kid also, rivalled only by origami, which I was much more skilled at. Since origami is less organic in shape and more geometric, practising it helps to develop a slightly different skillset, though, as you can probably imagine, there is still an emphasis on fine motor skills.

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oh origami is very cool too:)
I tried to repeat some ideas looking at Youtube videos but I videos but I failed:) maybe I chose too complicated ones

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I think your son has a talent in modeling. It is also a good thing that you are doing it together.

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amn't sure but thank you:)
in any case it's interesting even for me
have you tried it when you're adult?:)

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Yes, I am doing it once in a while once I get hold of some playdoh.

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We have never tried modeling clay we do playdough at home and the kids love it. I have to admit that I love touching and rolling the dough as much as the kids dough😁 I love how open ended and versatile playdough is just add a few elements and it is a totally different play😊

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