Manipulative Toys - Fine Motor Skills and Dexterity Development Essential Tools

It is a well known and research-supported fact that development of fine motor skills in babies and toddlers is directly linked to many important and complex brain functions such as, for instance, language skills. This is why it is so important to monitor how those skills are maturing and whenever possible help the child along by playing games and doing activities that help to develop them.
Here are some of the toys, games and activities you can do to improve and develop fine motor skills by simply playing with your baby or toddler.
The classic stacking rings, wooden trucks and cars, colorful building blocks, shape sorters, bright and bouncy balls, water toys, coloring books, puzzles with big pieces and large, cheerful pictures; and simple, basic and fun traditional toys that provide hours and hours of amusement, joy and development at the same time.
Toddlers simply love to play and interact with items that do something in response to their actions. Busy boxes are simple but a wonderful form of interactive educational games that let children get the feel for pushing, pulling and rotating various sizes and shapes of knobs, levers and buttons. And, if you can handle the noise, one of the all-time favorite toys for children is the popper toy that they can drag behind then or push in front of them, sometimes for hours on end.
Fine motor skills toys and dexterity development games such as manipulative lacing toys, bead and maze toys or wooden rollercoaster toys, are essential for the comprehensive development of your children.