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5 Games to Improve Hand-Eye Coordination Development

5 Games to Improve Hand-Eye Coordination Development

Eye-hand coordination begins to develop between 4 and 14 months old when a baby starts to use their hands and legs to explore around them. Along with side visual input and developing fine motor skills, a baby begins to understand and hold objects while fine-tuning these movements as they grow. Day Care Escondido has a priority focus on developing cognitive skills, and Hand-eye coordination is an essential thing to be practised. 

Why Is Hand-Eye Coordination Important?

Good eye-hand coordination can help your child in numerous different areas of life. Here are just a few:

Sports:

Hand-eye coordination can help your child catch a ball, hit a ball with a bat, and then graduate to strict sporting demands.

Handwriting:

Visual-motor integration, which may be a strong base for handwriting, grows out of eye-hand coordination. The eyes got to guide the hand in forming the letters and ensuring they stay within the lines.

Reading:

Eye-tracking skills, which are vital for reading, are often developed through the games and activities used for hand-eye coordination.

Life Skills:

Young children use this skill in learning to stack towers, build with lego, etc. We also need our eyes to guide our hands once we tie shoelaces and once we frost cakes!

So, here are some hand-eye coordination games that can be performed with kids. 

Suspended Ball Activities:

Do yourself an enormous favour and suspend a ball during a net. It will prevent you from chasing after countless missed balls while your kids practice their skills!

Use a net bag, the type that you get fruit and veggies in.

Here’s what to do:

  • Pop a ball in and knot it
  • Tie it to a length of rope.
  • The rope must be long enough to urge the ball to level together with your child’s chest.
  • Suspend the ball from any horizontal pole or maybe from a hook during a doorway.
  • Push and Catch:

Have your child push the ball away with both hands, then catch it again. Your child must oversee the ball to catch it with both hands together and not let it bang against the body.

  • Bat and Ball:

Use a bat and have your child practice hitting the ball with the bat. Use a spread of bats to extend the challenge for your child.

  • Dribbling a Ball Around Cones

Place plastic cones during a shape like a line or a circle and dribble a ball between them employing a cricket or lumber.

Improvise by using plastic bottles crammed with water as cones or do this set of cones with bean bags and rings.

Older kids can use more petite balls (e.g. tennis balls) to extend the challenge.

Remind your child not to hit the ball too forcefully, to avoid being hit within the face with a rebound!

For an extra challenge, ask your child to clap or twirl between pushing the ball away and catching it again.

Cutting and Sticking:

Give your child differing types of paper – like newspaper, tissue, cardboard, etc. – and let him cut it into shapes or strips.

Learning to chop with scissors may be an excellent way to create hand-eye coordination at a young age.

Provide glue-like liquid wood glue, craft glue, a glue stick, or maybe a mix of flour and water with some paint brushes to spread the glue.

Skipping Rope:

Skipping may be a challenging skill that many children struggle to do, yet it is so good for their coordination.

Not only do children need to coordinate each side of their body and alternate legs, but they also have to move the jump rope while ensuring that they jump through the rope.

Bean Bag Toss:

Bean bags are a must-have in every household. Twiddling with bean bags develops gross and fine motor skills. you’ll build your child’s hand-eye coordination in various ways:

Toss them into a washing basket

Throw them into a coffee hoop

Catch them with one hand (from 5 years of age)

Throw them within the air and catch them (from 6 years of age)

Play a bean bag toss game

Drawing:

Your children should be spending time drawing a day. This primary activity builds how the eyes and fingers work together to realize a task. Provide different utensils and mediums – like paper, cardboard, a whiteboard, pencils, wax crayons, paint, etc.

Also, an outsized chalkboard gives your child the chance to draw while working their large muscles. He also has to cross his arms over to succeed in the left and right of the board, which develops his ability to cross the midline. Invest during a good quality standing chalkboard that your child will use for years

At Infant Care Escondido, we make sure that these activities and games are played regularly for kids’ cognitive development.

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