Fine motor skills in 2 year olds

horizontal lines. Crosses, squares, triangles and diamonds follow in sequential order. While toddlers delight in the sheer physical activity of moving a crayon around and producing marks on paper, a child entering the preschool age attempts to control’ her scribbling and discovers a connection between these marks and the world around her. Lines are no longer simply marks on paper but begin to have á meaning for the child.

Four year olds hold a crayon firmly and are better able to use the small muscles of their – fingers. Their drawings comprise recognizable forms although one cannot decide what they are. By five years of age, the child’s drawings are quite distinguishable as people, animals or trees. Typically, the preschooler’s first representation of a human figure is drawn with a circle for a head and two vertical