Sensory motor skills!!

**Some must have toys which improve sensory motor skills in kids!!

Sensory stimulation skill and motor skills go hand in hand. The motor system of body drive sensory stimulation and sensory stimulation drives brain!!

Sensory skills means senses of taste and smell, touch and feel, vision, hearing capacity, proprioception and balance.

And for this motor skills like hand eye coordination, muscle strength,fine motor skills, visual tracking and coordination is required. so sensory skills plus motor skills equal to sensory motor skills!!

And if this skill develop properly in the child Then they can do more complex task easily.

like language development, problem-solving skills, social interaction, cognitive growth and fine and gross motor skills

So how we improve sensory motor skill of kids through toys ….

Here I am suggesting some must have toys and activities which improve kids sensory skills!!

1. Kinetic sand: kinetic sand is the best sensory play material I must say!!!

kids can literally enjoyed and play it like hours and hours kids can practices scooping, shipping, squeezing and digging Using this kinetic sand this is good for their proprioceptive sensory development.

2. Touch and feel books:

there are many touch and feel books available in the market must buy any of your choice very useful for babies like below one year to 2 years they really enjoyed the different touches given in the book!!

3. Play Dough or modelling Dough : Another best toy to develop sensory motor skills in the kids !! it built muscle strength of kids hands you can even made this play Dough at home as well !

4. Sensory balls or bath toys (useful for below 1 years to 2 years): sensory balls has different textures your babies can hold it, squash it and feel the different texture!!

5. Sensory Mat : this is very useful Mat to understand all type of Textures like rough,soft, furry, hard etc… This type of mat develop cognitive skills of kids from an early age!!! personally my favourite toy

6. Pop it : I don’t know suddenly where exactly this toy came in the market and very popular soon…. they claim, it reduce anxieties and make life easier also useful for distract kids From bad habits like nail biting,thumb sucking,hair pulling etc … as it occupies their hands all the time !! But really it’s very relaxing and stress buster toy very useful to develop sensory skills and hand-eye co-ordination!!

7. Slime: The is another famous toy in these days !! best sensory toy it boost creativity in kids also increases concentration and hand Eye coordination. stress relieving toy !! must try!!

Some activities which build sensory skills in the kids:

1. Jumping on different platform like on the bed or trampoline or ground and check how they balance them self on all about surfaces.

2. Also walking on grass or small stones or on the sand and observe how they feel.

3. doing dot to dot puzzle or maze increases their visual tracking skills. Try it with kids.

4. For Taste and smell absorb how they reacted for particular smell and taste like my girl always find out the smell of Maggie no matter where it is cooked in our home or neighbours

In this way you can build or develop sensory motor skill in your kids!

Hope you all find useful write up !

Thanks for reading!