Early years practitioners are being invited to contribute findings to a new research project by observing how young children use their hands and fingers to explore objects through play.
Sue Gascoyne of Play to Z, who is carrying out the study with outdoor play expert Jan White, told Nursery World, ‘Convinced of the fact that there is a lot more to fine motor skills than simply pincer and palmar grips we have launched a mini research project to observe how children use their hands.’
Practitioners and parents can submit their own observations by filling in the table attached and recording the different ways that children of different ages handle objects, whether it’s by smoothing, mashing and grinding, rolling etc.
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