How can you improve your motor and brain skills?

Did you know games can help train your brain as well as fine motor skills, in addition to being fun? Fine motor skills help you to perform small tasks and make small movements, such as grasping a soup spoon or buttoning your pants. The brain and muscular strength are more or less connected. Children and adults alike can benefit from a little assistance to improve their fine motor skills. What better way to achieve this than with games that tickle your mind!

Why practice your fine motor skills?

It takes away some of your autonomy when you or your children are unable to do small tasks because they lack fine motor skills. For example, not being able tie your shoes yourself can frustrate or upset adults and children. You can improve confidence and independence by practicing fine motor skills. This also improves your hand-eye co-ordination and is said to help children perform better in school. Some small tasks requiring fine motor skills include brushing teeth, threading a needle through, using cutlery and typing.

Games to improve your brain and fine motor skills!

Playing board games is a great way to improve your finger and hand strength, mobility and coordination. Safari Park Jr. or Three Little Piggies Deluxe are great for young children! Safari park Jr. combines the learning of shapes, concepts, and left, right, and in front, and behind, with fine motor skills. The pieces and game board have a design that allows for shape sorting. The animals of different shapes must be placed in the correct holes on the playboard. After that, the animals must be moved to the right position on the board. This motion acts as a guide, improving hand-eye coordination.

Three Little Piggies Deluxe can also be played by pre-schoolers. They need to have good fine motor skills to move the animals around the board, and carefully place the houses to shield the little piglets from the Wolf. This puzzle game is also a great way to practice logic, spatial awareness and planning. The storybook that comes with this game is a nice bonus. The turning of pages in books is a great way to develop fine motor skills.

Grizzly Gears will help you practice your pincer grip and turning movements. In this learning game, you must turn the trees to move the animals in the right order from one side to the other of the board. From 7 years old to adults, kids can train spatial awareness and flexible thinking by using finger movements.

The range of IQ is a great way to practice for adults! Two packing games that offer both 2D and 3-dimensional challenges are the IQ Puzzler Pro and IQ Six Pro. You need to have good hand-eye coordination in order to complete 3D challenges. You can also choose the IQ Puzzler XXL for extra-large puzzle pieces. It has 188 challenges. These 3 games will improve your spatial awareness, concentration and problem solving skills.