A beneficial transition activity before handwriting or fine motor tasks. It primes the intrinsic muscles of the hand, to help improve handwriting and fine motor task performance.
Instructions
Clap your hands together and keep them stuck together
Unstick your thumbs (as far apart as you can without your hands coming apart)
Stick your thumbs back together
Repeat steps 2 and 3 with your pointer fingers, then middle fingers, then ring fingers then pinkies
Watch Points
Only one pair of fingers coming apart at a time
Modifications
More Challenging
Multi-Sensory
Ball Skills
Fine Motor
Do Sticky Starfish slowly
Try Sticky Starfish with your eyes closed
Stick double-sided sticky tape onto each of the fingers on your left hand. Stick your hands together and feel the stickiness as you try to unstick your fingers and stick them back together.
Not applicable
Sticky Starfish develops the important fine motor skill of controlling the movement of each finger in isolation.
