Finger games for kids
Finger games for babies play an important role in a child’s speech development and thinking, and simply improve their mood.
The simplest and well-known finger-twisting game for little ones is “Magpie – Crow.” It is important not just to bend, but also to iron each finger from the base to the pad. In the old days this game had a sequel. After Thumb was punished for “not cooking porridge, not carrying water, not chopping wood, not lighting the stove” and not giving him porridge, he began to correct himself: “Here he carries water, chops wood, lights the stove.” "(with these words the thumb is bent and unbent). Such attention was paid to the thumb because it plays an important role in grasping movements. To do this, it is important to teach the child to hold his thumb on top of the rest in a fist.
A song about rain.
Rain, rain,
Drip-drip-drip,
Wet paths,
I'll still go for a walk
Put on your boots.
The entire time the song is being sung, the baby taps his index finger on his palm, alternating hands.
Finger games for kids will help occupy their leisure time with interesting and useful activities, while developing their cognitive abilities.
Surely your little one has seen you chop cabbage or dad hammer nails more than once.
Offer the following games that he will surely like: Finger game for kids “Cabbage”
We chop and chop the cabbage (movements with straight palms up and down)
We salt the cabbage - we salt it, (stroking the fingertips)
We three-three cabbage (rub fist against fist)
We press and press cabbage. (clench and unclench your fists)
Inna Svetlova “Developing fine motor skills”
Finger game “Building a house”
I knock with a hammer, I knock, (tapping with the fist of my right hand on the palm of my left hand)
I'll hammer a hundred nails. (change handles)
I will build a house, a house, (alternately put fist on fist)
We will live in it, in it. (draw a roof with your palms above your head)
Inna Svetlova “Developing fine motor skills”
When you master finger games for kids, you can try to create your own shadow theater. To do this you will need a table lamp, a dark room, a white cloth on the wall and a little imagination. And then roosters, cows, cats, dogs and other funny animals will come to life on the wall. Your child will be delighted with this.
Finger games for babies stimulate visual and auditory perception, attention, memory, hand coordination, coherent speech and vocabulary.
When to practice?
1. Finger games for babies can be used as exercise in the morning. I selected three suitable complexes from Inna Svetlova’s book “Developing fine motor skills.” The kids really like it. And you don’t have to spend a lot of time on it.
We start with “Forest exercise”
Hands raised and shaken - (Smoothly shake hands raised up.)
These are trees in the forest.
Arms bent, (Shake hands in front of you.)
The brushes were shaken -
The wind blows away the dew.
To the sides of the arms, (Horizontal simultaneous movements of the arms
Let's wave smoothly - left and right.)
These are the birds flying towards us.
How they sit down - (Sit down, move your arms back.)
We will also show -
The wings were folded back.
Next comes the finger game “Bunnies”
The gray bunny is sitting (fold his paws on his chest like a bunny)
And he wiggles his ears. (Hands on head - bunny ears)
It’s cold for the bunny to sit, (Stroke the other with one hand alternately)
We need to warm our paws.
It’s cold for the bunny to stand, (Cross your arms in front of your chest, rub your sides)
The bunny needs to jump. (Jump on your toes)
Someone scared the bunny - (Cover your face with your palms)
The bunny jumped and galloped away. (Ride)
And our morning exercises are completed with the finger game “We drove - we rode” (our favorite exercise)
We rode a horse (light squats, arms extended, as if holding
We went to the garden. Rein)
Hop-hop-hop! (Claps: two short, one long)
Hop-hop-hop!
We were driving a car, (Turns with hands that seem to be holding the steering wheel)
We reached the corner.
Beep beep! (Beep with your thumb)
Beep beep!
We were riding on a steam locomotive, (The hand is clenched in a fist at the top. The hand moves downwards -
We reached the mountain. Up, etc.)
Ooh! (Wide movement of the hand from top to bottom)
2. Finger games for kids will help you out when you are waiting in line at a children's clinic, eating in public transport, stuck in a traffic jam, etc. And time passes unnoticed, and most importantly, usefully.
The benefits of finger exercises for children
The goal of finger gymnastics is to develop dexterity and accuracy of the fingers, develop the relationship between the hemispheres of the brain and synchronize their work.
In the right hemisphere of the brain we have various images of objects and phenomena, and in the left they are verbalized, that is, they find verbal expression, and this process occurs thanks to the “bridge” between the right and left hemispheres. The stronger this bridge, the faster and more often nerve impulses travel along it, the more active the thought processes, more precisely the attention, the higher the abilities.
If you want your child to speak well, learn quickly and easily, and deftly perform even the most delicate work, start developing his hands: fingers and hands from an early age. This is exactly what finger gymnastics for children helps.
Finger games can be said to be an excellent universal, didactic and developmental material. The methodology and meaning of these games is that the nerve endings of the hands affect the child’s brain and brain activity is activated.
Finger gymnastics will help prepare a child’s hand for writing and develop coordination. Thanks to such gymnastics, the child receives a variety of sensory impressions, he develops attentiveness and the ability to concentrate.
Also, such games form the relationship between an adult and a child.
