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Hand-eye co-ordination is the body’s ability to take what is seen by the eyes and direct the hands to achieve a desired action. This co-ordination is necessary for many different activities from building a puzzle and catching a ball to playing video games or driving a car.
By about four to six months of age your baby will start to explore her world. One of the first things she finds and puts in her mouth are her hands. If you let her play under a baby gym or mobile, she’ll try to bat the toys with her hands.
Pre-schoolers need opportunities to further develop their hand-eye co-ordination as it forms a signification foundation for reading and writing at school. At home encourage your child to play or do activities which help to strengthen hand-eye co-ordination. Games like playing with play dough, building blocks, playing with plastic farm animals or toy soldiers, cutting paper or pasting stickers into a sticker album are great hand-eye co-ordination exercises. Extra activities which help with hand-eye co-ordination are ball sports and sports programmes, learning to play a musical instrument, chess and cooking classes and science clubs.
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