Finger games for the development of fine motor skills

We, as conscious parents, do everything and everything to make our baby grow up happy, healthy and, of course, smart. From early childhood we buy a variety of educational toys, we "dig" in the smart literature for parents and develop, develop and once again develop their child. Parents! Stop it! Choose several main points of upbringing and development. Do not try to raise a child prodigy, as it is now fashionable to say, raise a healthy, purposeful and happy child. But in the game you find cognition and development, but nothing else.

So, do not be afraid to repeat, choose several main directions of education and development of your baby. An important moment of mental improvement is the development of the child's small motor skills, beginning with the birth. In the beginning, this is an ordinary massage of the hands, then it is the games of the toddler with toys, games with adults and independent development through play, modeling, drawing and more precise studies (embroidering, writing, drawing, modeling, etc.). An important role in the development of the child play finger games for the development of fine motor skills. Such games contribute to the development of the speech of the child, as well as various creative abilities. The principle of the finger game is as follows: during the game, the nerve endings of the baby's fingers develop, in turn the nerve endings of the hands directly affect the child's cerebral centers, resulting in the development of the baby dramatically improving. And the most important thing in this process is that the baby is interesting, fun and useful.

What are finger games? Personally, I would divide them into two main groups:

Of course, if you describe the whole theory and practice of finger games, you will get a great content book, I'll try to give the most basic and necessary information to beginning "practice parents".

Passive "finger games" - massage

"Prelude" to palchikovymi games will serve as an ordinary massage of the hands, which is recommended for the child, beginning almost from birth. The technique of massage can be shown only by an experienced masseur, but nevertheless, the main and main methods of carrying out such a massage you can master yourself.

This massage is short. It is performed only for three to five minutes several times a day. As a rule, it includes the following consecutive stages:

Ladushki, ladushki. Where did they live? By Grandma

Probably, each of us remembers from his childhood some amusing rhymes-poteshki, as mother or grandmother drove a finger on the palm of your hand, saying: "Forty-crow ..." That's just the massage of palms and fingers is advisable to conduct, telling a variety of nursery rhymes.

I will give just a few examples of such verses. Otherwise, your guide and helper - the Internet or books-benefits for parents (there are a lot of such).

For massage of fingers

This finger is a grandfather,

This finger is a grandmother,

This finger is a daddy,

This finger is Mom,

This finger is me!

That's my whole family!

Or:

One, two, three, four, five,

Let's go for a walk,

This finger builds a house,

This finger washes the floor,

This finger cooks soup,

This finger climbed on the oak,

This finger to eat sat down,

And he ate everything for everyone.

In addition to massage techniques, various techniques are used, indicated in the rhymes play. For example,

Ladushki, ladushki,

Where were you? -By Grandma.

What did they eat? -Cash.

What did they drink? -Brace.

Katashka is sweet,

Brave sour,

The grandmother kind-hearted!

Have drunk-ate,

We flew home,

On the head sat down.

In principle, you can find many variations of these verses, each time telling the kid a new "story". The kid will not be bothered with another rhyme and at the same time it will be interesting to perform some new task.

Make a "doggy"!

Personally, I recall from my childhood how my older brother portrayed a dog with the help of hands, it was especially interesting to observe the shadow of this dog on the wall. This was just a finger game.

Such finger games can turn into a whole story involving objects or living things. When depicting a child to someone or something, be sure to explain to your child all your movements, call your fingers. As soon as the child learns to do the exercises on his own, you can play a whole fairy tale, distributing the roles between the child and yourself. For example, you can play a bunny meeting with a hedgehog in the forest, a wolf hunt for a bunny, etc.

I will give examples of how to make images of some animals with the help of fingers.

The simplest option is a little man . The index finger and the middle finger run around the table - here's a little man for you.

If you connect the middle and ring fingers with a large, and the index finger and little finger lift up, you get a cat .

To get a dog , you need to connect the index, middle and ring fingers, remove the little finger, and lift your thumb up.

It's pretty easy to get a bunny. To do this, just straighten your index and middle fingers, and squeeze the other three fingers into a fist.

Want to get a hedgehog - hands clasp in the lock, the fingers of one of the hands and the thumb of the other hand straighten.

To get a butterfly , you need to cross your arms at the wrists, then press the palms back against each other. The palms with straight fingers make light movements in the wrists - the butterfly flutters.

Knowing how various animals are depicted with the help of fingers and hands, you can play a whole theater of shadows. Is not it fun and useful?

Having plunged with your child into the fun world of finger games for the development of fine motor skills, you will master a truly interesting, useful and fascinating occupation whose role can not be overemphasized. But to master this technique it will take quite a bit of time, but the result will not take long.