Activities to build hand strength

Hand strength is essential to complete daily tasks and impacts school performance. Learn how to help your child develop good hand strength.

Hand strength is a big deal for handwriting. Kids need to be able to have enough hand strength for handwriting. Here's how you help.

Try these kindergarten hand exercises to help develop your child's fine motor skills and get them ready for handwriting!

I think of our body as a tree. And our hands are the tiny branches at the end with our fingers being the leaves. There are so many ways to do this, these are just some ideas to help spark your imagination and to give you the fundamentals in which to build off.

Discover playful activities using playdough to enhance fine motor skills, hand strength, and creativity through fun and interactive exercises.

This paper crumpling activity is a fine motor workout for the hands. Work on finger strength, hand eye coordination, pinch, and grasp!

Improve handwriting with these hand strengthening ideas

Here is a playdough hand strengthening activity, an engaging and fun-filled method to help preschoolers build their hand muscles. This activity is specially designed to strengthen hand muscles for writing, a critical skill that they will need as they progress in their educational path. By using specific exercises to squeeze, roll, and mold the playdough, children put their fine motor skills to the test while strengthening the muscles in the hand.

Strength in the hand muscles is a fine motor skill that is necessary for so many tasks. Strength in the intrinsic muscles of the hands allow for a curved palm which is used for cupping the palm in order to hold items such as coins or beads. The intrinsic muscles are needed for pencil grasp ... Read more