Multiple Elements

Working with pick up sticks can help test and develop a number elements involved in fine motor skills.

You can buy a set of pick up sticks online for about £3-5.

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Bouldering is a fun way to develop many of the different elements that enable fine motor control including eye-hand coordination, muscle strength and bilateral hand coordination.

QMSU has a Climbing club, who climb the bouldering wall at Mile End two or three times a week. https://www.qmsu.org/groups/6713/, https://www.facebook.com/queenmaryclimbing/

https://www.mileendwall.org.uk/

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Table Tennis is also an enjoyable way to work on multiple motor skills, eye-hand coordination and responsivity.

QMSU has a Table Tennis club for all levels: https://www.qmsu.org/groups/qmbltabletennis/

And there are several opportunities to try out table tennis during welcome week, starting 26th September: https://www.qmsu.org/event/16801/

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Lino art can help develop hand-eye coordination, bilateral hand coordination and improve proprioception.

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Make-Linocuts/

There are starter kits to buy e.g. this one from Essdee.

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Magic tricks that involve manipulating objects in your hands, can help to develop bilateral hand coordination, proprioception and in-hand manipulation.

This video shows how to do some tricks with coins. There are many others with cards and other objects out there.

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Clay modelling improves eye-hand coordination, proprioception, in-hand manipulation and bilateral hand coordination.

There are more videos like this here https://learnsculpture.org/.

An example of clay to use is here.