Fine motor skills in 2 year olds

the area of self-help skills, i.e. they learn to look after their own needs. By the time they are five to six years old, most of them are able to bathe, dress and feed themselves. Washing themselves, putting on and buttoning cloths and combing and lving up hair are same things they will insist

on doing by themselves at this age, though they may take time to complete the tasks. While eating, if a spoon is used, the preschooler is able to hold it using her imgers instead of her fist.

The advances in gross and fine motor control not only give preschoolers greater