Gross and fine motor coordination is the control of large and fine muscle movements. Control of large muscle movements develops before fine. The pencil grip is an example of a fine muscle movement.

Some fine and gross motor skill activities are:

• Sing finger songs e.g. Incy Wincy Spider, Where is Thumbkin?, This Little Piggy
• Roll up a newspaper ball with one hand only, other behind back. Throw and catch with a buddy then do the same with the other hand.
• Roll happy sticks around (or rolled up newspaper/thin magazines), wiggle your fingers up and down, roll like a rolling pin, grip like a pencil and spin between each lot of fingers.
• Use tweezers to pick up small objects from bowls/sand trays/containers – cross over body with your hand to the other side 
• Squeeze pegs and put around the edge of the container
• Threading activities with beads/material/macaroni
• Play pick up sticks
• Screw a nut on a bolt – change hands
• Puzzles
• String games 
• Draw with chalk on concrete or do painting with water
• Jump over lines/on lines/into shapes
• Walk, Run, Skip, Hop