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Working on Gross Motor Skills
- EI Editor Posted On Oct 25, 2012
Although Children’s health month is coming to an end soon, it doesn’t mean that the fun should stop! We highly encourage that you continue to get your kids active and working on those gross motor skills!
What are gross motor skills? Gross motor skills are the abilities required in order to control the large muscles of the body that are used for walking, running, sitting, crawling and other activities.They develop over a relatively short period of time, with most of the development occurring during childhood. Encouraging gross motor skills simply requires a safe, open play space, peers to interact with and some adult supervision.There are a number of activities parents can have children do to help develop gross motor skills. These include:
What are gross motor skills? Gross motor skills are the abilities required in order to control the large muscles of the body that are used for walking, running, sitting, crawling and other activities.They develop over a relatively short period of time, with most of the development occurring during childhood. Encouraging gross motor skills simply requires a safe, open play space, peers to interact with and some adult supervision.There are a number of activities parents can have children do to help develop gross motor skills. These include:- Activities that encourage balancing (jump rope, hop scotch)
- Activities that develop hand-eye or foot-eye coordination (baseball, football, soccer—anything that involves catching, kicking or throwing a ball)
- Hopping with a small object in-between their knees and jumping forwards, backwards and sideways.
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