Fine Motor Skill Development

Children have a natural affinity for sand play. Sand play stimulates and develops children's fine motor and creative playing skills and promotes physical development. Large muscle skills develop as children dig, pour, sift, scoop, shape with moulds and clean up spills with brush and dustpan. It is great for sensory therapy. Eye-hand coordination and small muscle control improve as children to manipulate sand accessories.

Mathematical concepts can be developed during sand play with measuring spoons, cups, containers in a variety of sizes and shapes. Teachers can challenge children to count how many scoops it takes to fill in a container. Children can use mathematical term like more/less, many/few, empty/full, heavy/light. It is important that the sand play area remain free and child-centered so that children may generate their own play schemes imaginatively. 

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The field of early childhood education by describing at a fundamental level how children acquire knowledge with cognitive and perceptual approaches to motor skill in sensorimotor and preoperational period. Example the hand function development of children in the sensorimotor & preoperational period. Roles of vision & cognition and somatosensory sensation in haptic perception.