Surprising Benefits Of Fingerplay in Kids Development

Fingerplay not only entertains the kids but also plays an important role in kids' development. Introduce fingerplay songs to preschoolers as it helps them in developing language and listening skills, enhancing motor skills and improving social skills. There are lots of fingerplay songs, some familiar and some unpopular. Do fingerplay while chanting the rhymes, it is a great way to build language as new words are added to kids' vocabulary.

Your kids will light up as they sing their favorite nursery rhymes, accompanied by fingerplay. Let's learn about some more benefits of fingerplay -

Boost learning skills

Fingerplay songs foster memorizing the information and enhances the ability to recall what has been learned. Action songs develop children's learning skills as they listen and watch the actions. So, kids grasp the information visually, musically and verbally as well. Isn't that great?

Develop fine and gross motor skills

Children use their fingers, hands, legs, head and other body parts to do fingreplay and perform actions while enchanting the nursery rhymes. The controlled actions help the kids and preschooler to control body and mind movement.

Improve hand-eye coordination

Through fingerplay and kids' action rhymes, children can learn to coordinate their hands and fingers and also improve hand-eye coordination.

Develop in listening skills

Kids will carefully follow and listen to their teacher or parents, who are teaching them the action or fingerplay songs. This help preschoolers and children to develop listening skills so that they can follow the directions and perform actions.

Add new words to kids' vocabulary

Fingerplay songs not only boost the language skills but also improves their vocabulary. As they sing the rhymes, they learn new words and at time manipulate words and songs. Singing nursery rhymes is truly a fun musical way to reinforce vocabulary and understand meaning of words as they perform actions.