What is Motor Skills?

Motor skills is an activity that involve the movement of body muscles. Its an action that has
to do with precise movement to carry out a particular action. Motor skill is a movement that is coordinated which is gotten through practice. The ability to carry out movements effectively to reach the desired goals.

They are divided into two groups: the gross motor skills and the fine motor skills.

The Gross Motor Skill

The gross motor skills helps babies between 15 months the access to freedom to explore their environment and also interact with other. The gross motor skill includes the larger movements of the following; the feet, arms, legs and the whole body.
Examples of gross motor skills;
Kicking
Crawling
Running
Walking
Jumping etc

The Fine Motor Skills

During infancy fine motor skills starts with the awareness of holding, grasping and reaching out. The fine motor skills includes the small movement of the following; the hands, toes, fingers, wrist, lips and tongue. It is an activity that engages the small muscles.
Examples of fine motor skills;
Holding chunks of food
Grasping
Picking
Drawing
Folding
Holding
Stacking
Zipping
Tying etc