Fine Motor Skills/Visual Motor Skills

0 Months

  • Follows a moving object horizontally and vertically
  • Reaches for a dangling object
  • Reaches for a cube and attains it
  • Transfers toys from hand to hand

6 MONTHS

  • Pulls a peg out of a pegboard
  • Rakes a raisin and attains it
  • Pokes with index finger
  • Drops an object with voluntary release
  • Holds a crayon adaptively

12 MONTHS

  • Exhibits a refined pincer grasp
  • Turns pages of a cardboard book
  • Place pegs in a pegboard
  • Builds a 2-3 cube tower
  • Scribbles spontaneously
  • Begins to imitate crayon strokes such as a vertical and horizontal line
  • Holds a crayon with his/her fingers

24 MONTHS

  • String several large beads
  • Imitates a horizontal and vertical line
  • Aligns blocks to make a train, no smokestack
  • Unscrew a jar
  • Scribbles in a circular manner

36 MONTHS

  • Imitates a cross and circle (drawing in shaving cream or sand is always fun!)
  • Builds a 9-cube tower
  • Demonstrates preferred hand use
  • Strings 1/2″ beads independently
  • Recognizes primary colors
  • Identifies some body parts
  • Completes 2-piece rotated picture
  • Places pegs into a pegboard
  • Holds pencil with fingers
  • Unscrews/screws objects
  • Completes 8-piece form board

48 MONTHS

  • Begins to exhibit an adult 3-finger pencil grasp ( place a penny in a child’s palm so that they have to use their 4th and 5th digit while the other three fingers hold the pencil or crayon)
  • Draws a person with 3 recognizable parts
  • Imitates simple block designs
  • Cuts on straight, curved, and crooked lines
  • Names four basic shapes and colors
  • Completes a 3-5-shape puzzle
  • Imitates drawing a square
  • Completes simple mazes
  • Connects dots
  • Laces a lacing card

60 MONTHS

  • Prints numerals one to five, letters, and simple words
  • Ties a knot
  • Draws a person with 5 parts
  • Copies a triangle from a picture
  • Cuts out a picture with scissors
  • Completes 12-15 piece puzzle
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