Play and hand skills - finger isolation

Finger isolation refers to the ability to point with one finger at a time.

These play activities have been put together to improve your child’s hand skills. They can be done in any order and should ideally be practised three times a week for 15 minutes.

• Singing and doing the actions to ‘Two Little Dickie Birds’
• Drawing in shaving foam or spray cream with fingers
• Flicking a ping pong ball or cotton wool ball with the fingers
• Playing with finger puppets
• Rhymes like ‘Round and Round the Garden’ or ‘Incy Wincy Spider’
• Playing with a toy keyboard or press button toy
• Dialling the numbers on toy telephones
• Poking holes into Playdoh with fingers