Children are in a process of constant transformation throughout their lives. Training is a vital value in early childhood as shown by the early stimulation which aims to enhance the development of the child's abilities through appropriate stimuli.
What is graphomotor skills
Graphomotor refers to the ability of the child to begin to express through sign language, for example, through a drawing. In this way, it begins to acquire dexterity in the line through precision in hand and arm posture. Something important, too, for the writing exercise itself.
Thus, through plastic activities that are so creative for children, the little ones begin to perfect fine motor skills. Obviously, in the context of the classroom, the children live a training process that drives them towards this objective of expression through signs because the teachers propose exercises framed within this competence within the training itinerary.
But, in addition, it is also important that, in the home itself, the child has a creative space in which to unleash their imagination. You can integrate graphomotor games in free time shared with the family. For example, you can propose to make a drawing of a certain object, a simple object. With the added advantage, in addition, that the child has the opportunity to repeat this exercise on subsequent occasions. Since, the experience and the training also increases the own skill in the line.
You can also promote Simulation games. For example, buy a toy blackboard for the child so that he can simulate activities similar to those of the teachers in class. In this way, the child will have fun while drawing lines on the board and then erasing the drawing.
Graphomotor tokens
Besides, you can also use graphomotor tokens that serve as a guide to carry out exercises on different types of lines that the child can recreate. Worksheets that are simple but very effective at an educational level.
There are different types of stroke, for example, horizontal strokes or vertically, the lines that form a labyrinth, the lines of different thickness, the lines that simulate the fall of the rain, the curve-shaped line, the line in a straight line ... It is recommended that you integrate a wide variety of practical exercises so that the child learns to model the aesthetics of different types of lines and experiments in the realization of each type of stroke until they gain self-confidence and security.
Benefits of graphomotor skills
Through these techniques, the child positions himself before the space not in a reactive way but as a protagonist to shape a specific objective. Acquire important notions such as movement, outline, space or color.
The achievements made through these creative exercises also improve children's self-esteem and activate the child's mind based on realistic learning objectives.
Exercises for older children
There are other exercises recommended for older children. For example, the child can also acquire notions of plasticity associated with the graphomotrocity exercises through a context such as the beach, a space that becomes creative and pedagogical when you accompany your child in the realization of a certain figure. For example, a Sandcastle. During winter, you can also create a snowman from the spectacular white landscape.
Also at an older age, the exercise of making figures from plasticine pieces It is creative from the point of view of graphomotor skills in shaping a certain goal.