What better way to practice fine motor skills than with a few fine motor building sets and engineering kits for kids. These are a few of our favorite ideas for fun fine motor building sets that we enjoy at home! Build fine motor skills, play, and learn with awesome toys!
Fine Motor Building Sets and Engineering Kits
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There are many ways a child can practice fine motor skills and not just with pencils and tweezers. Building and engineering play are perfect ways to engage in fine motor play, especially if you have a reluctant writer! How can you strengthen fingers, improve hand eye coordination and increase dexterity? Try one of these fine motor building sets! I bet you have a few of them already!
Playful fine motor play with everyday toys!
My son loves these fine motor building sets! We either own them or enjoy them at friend’s houses! He is definitely a reluctant writer, colorer, tweezer user, etc! I think he would just rather play with toys, and he should! Play time is perfect time for working on fine motor skills without even really trying to do it. He gets so much practice with his legos, tinker toys, and geo mags, that he is well prepared to write when he is ready. These fine motor building sets I have chosen are perfect for increasing skills in a fun way.
Benefits of Fine Motor Building Sets
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Improve finger dexterity and isolation of finger movements
- Increase hand-eye coordination
- Work on finger grasps such as pincer, modified tripod and tripod
- Increase hand strength and build muscle
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Work on problem solving, engineering, creating and exploring engineering concepts
10 Perfect Fine Motor Building Sets for Engineering
Not only are these fine motor building sets perfect for fine motor skills, they also encourage planning and problem solving. These building sets are excellent for engineering and creating all sorts of inventions.
Tinker Toy Vehicle Building Set
It’s a classic but so versatile.
K- Nex Building Set
Another classic building set for fine motor inventing! Lots of little pieces to push together.
A great bargain for an awesome assortment of legos. Legos are our number choice for fine motor building sets around here!
Placing the logs is great fine motor work. You have to isolate fingers, use hand eye coordination and patience!
There are so many variations you can test out. The construction part is fairly easy but it still is great fine motor practice fitting the piece together.
Zoobs Robot Building with Pull Back Motor!
Snapping the pieces together requires coordination and hand strength. Finger dexterity is helpful!
This is like building a giant house of cards but a bit more do-able for younger children. Cards need to be put in holders and carefully stacked on top of each other.
Snapping the circuits into the base is all about fine motor skills {as well as removing them}!
Small rods and balls require tripod and pincer grasps to manipulate and build!
Straws and Connectors Building Kit
Perfect, simple fine motor work that younger kids can enjoy too. My son loves that he can build large structures with this set.
Do you have any of these fine motor building sets?
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