Developing Motor Skills
Help your students improve their gross, fine and oral motor skills with this useful selection of ideas and activities.
- Good booklet that contains a number of activity suggestions to use with pupils who need help developing their motor skills. The Downs Syndrome Association
- Resource sheets of fine motor activities that build on each other to help show progression. Anne-frances Royle
Fine motor and handwriting development
- Lots of great ideas for activities, some with suggestions for including rhymes and common songs. trogfoot
Fine motor skills - Finger gym
- A selection of lovely ideas: everything from using tweezers to playing wheelbarrow games in pairs, and lots in between! bevevans22
- Another set of printable guidance sheets that include activities that build on each other and show progression, this time for gross motor skills. Anne-frances Royle
- Simple cutting skills with green and red prompts to show pupils where to begin and end. bevevans22
- Lots of ideas for messy sensory play ideas, especially suitable for preschoolers. Many useful ideas for developing awareness and motor skills. ibuzzybea
- Simple, useful and fabulous PowerPoint for developing oral awareness. amy95
- A small printable A4 booklet for tracking and basic pencil skills. Could be laminated and used with a dry wipe marker. bevevans22
Activities with fine motor manipulatives
- Comprehensive list of suggestions and activities, split into specific areas like ‘Crossing the Midline’, ‘Sensory Ideas’, etc. nicholasostheimer
- Useful scissor skills sheet, focused on cutting out 2D shapes. lbrowne
Oral motor skills picture book
- Lots of simple ideas for developing oral skills, based on simple tasks written in rhyming sentences. ibuzzybea
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