How to Give Your Toddler Fun Activities to Improve Their Hand-Eye Coordination

Encouraging your toddler to spend time on some simple and fun activities can improve their hand-eye coordination. Good hand-eye coordination can help a child prepare for reading by improving their observation and memory skills. Improved hand-eye coordination will also help increase your toddlers ability to do artwork and write (control a pencil).

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. 
    

   Provide your toddler with some Lego Duplo blocks. Show your child how they can snap together to make things. Lego has some great themed Duplo sets if your child needs help imagining what to build like Thomas, Bob the Builder, and Dora the Explorer.

2. Let your child play with puzzles. Start with puzzles with only 5 to 10 pieces at first and build up to more challenging puzzles. As your toddler completes a puzzle, provide them with a new one.

3. Have your toddler color with jumbo size crayons or markers. Consider using Crayola color-safe markers if your child has a hard time keeping the marker on the paper and off of their clothes. Your toddler will learn to easily make marks on the paper. Encourage your child to make straight lines and curved lines.

4. 
    

   Under adult supervision, have your child sort small objects. Use different types of dried beans, colored objects, or beads. Get some empty cups and have your toddler sort the objects by color or shape.

5. Provide your toddler with a Mr. Potato Head toy. Let your child put the different pegged accessories into Mr. Potato Head to decorate him. Have your toddler take the pieces out and try a new design.

6. 
    

   Provide your child with tinker toys or Lincoln logs. Each of these fun toys provide a good opportunity for your toddler to improve their hand-eye coordination.

Tips & Warnings

• Sometimes it helps to keep your toddler in their high chair while doing one of these activities so they will not be distracted by other things.
• Make sure if you give your toddler small objects that could be a choking hazard, stay with them to supervise so they do not put the objects in their mouth. If you are uncomfortable, use larger object that are not a choking hazard.

Resources

• LEGO DUPLO Play Sets for ages 2-5 at The Official LEGO Shop

[johnnyutah]

on 5/9/2009 wow..and all i thought i needed to do was let him play xbox..lol thanks for sharing How to Give Your Toddler Fun Activities to Improve Their Hand-Eye Coordination 5*