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(Unit 5) Topic 8: Cooking Up Fun!

4 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Fine and Gross Motor Skills

​Topic 8 Page 12

Young children are learning to use the small (fine motor) and large (gross motor) muscle groups in their hands and arms.

​Activities such as scooping, pouring, cutting, scrubbing, tearing, and dipping allow them that practice.

Motor skills are movements and actions of the muscles. Typically, they are categorized into two groups: gross motor skills and fine motor skills. ​ ​Fine motor skills are small movements — such as picking up small objects and holding a spoon — that use the small muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue.

Large motor skills develop rapidly during the early childhood years. Large motor skills concern the development of larger muscle movements that are responsible for running, jumping, and throwing. In infancy, crawling, lifting one's head, rolling over, and sitting up are examples of gross motor development. (eXtension Foundation)

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