Toys That Develop Motor Skills

Are you looking for toys for your baby that are not only fun to play with but educational as well then you have hit the right article. We all want our children to learn as much as there possibly is to know. Some kids do not like to sit and learn so we as parents have to find toys that help us. The child will not really know that they are being taught they have a toy and they are trying to figure out how to use it. Teaching your child fine motor skills is very important to do.

Are you thinking well what are fine motor skills? They are small muscles that in the body that make you able to grab things, hold things, open and close them and more. Fine motor skills will use strength,fine motor control and dexterity. This is a very important thing to learn since we use them on a daily basis. Weather it is to grab your cup to drink something or to get a pencil and write a school essay. We all need to have small motor skills.

If your child has weak fine motor skills you can try working with them more frequently with it or if it should not improve you may want to take them to have a check up and see if they have some kind of learning disability or other problems. Below are some toys that develop fine motor skills that you can purchase to help your child grow and learn.

Best Toys For Developing Motor Skills

1. Coloring and drawing. You can ask your child to draw you a picture of a dog, cat or any other animal. They are not only learning how to hold a crayon or pencil but also learning what different animals are at the same time. Coloring books in helps with these types of skills.
2. There is a toy that looks like a sneaker. It is wood and it teaches you how to lace up and tie your shoes.
3. Geometric stacker toys are sticks that you have to place the right sizes down on them and go smaller and smaller. Sometimes they have different shapes that you have to fit together like the red,yellow,green,blue and orange rings you place on a stick with a platform.
4. There are learn to dress boy and girl dolls that come with different clothing the child can learn how to dress the doll and properly put the clothing on the dolls body.
5. There is an alphabet dinosaur wooden 3D puzzle.
6. For babies there is a kit that has different colors, textures, styles and shapes in it.

In just about anything that you do with your hands that require, moving, writing, lifting, typing or playing is always learning motor skills, even if you do not realize it. So try and always spend time with your child and play with them as much as you can. The more you play and interact with them the more they are going to learn how to d things that they may not have been able to do before.

This is an image of a sneaker toy that teaches you how to lace, unlace and tie up your shoes.

This is an image of a geometric-stacker toy. This teaches them how to place the right shape and size where they go. Also it teaches them colors, shapes and the feel of different shapes.

This is an image of a dinosaur 3d puzzle that teaches the alphabet, colors and how to put a puzzle together.

This is an image of a baby ring set that teaches texture, colors, shapes, sizes and different noises.