In childcare the children have lots of fun taking part in a range of activities such as water, sand, playdough, painting, drawings and cutting. Not only is this fun the main purpose is to improve and develop the children’s fine motor skills. Fine motor skills can be thought of as the small movements of muscles that involve using the hands and fingers together to perform movement. Fine motor skills are movements such as pinching or grasping. These types of movements are important for young children to practice as they develop because they help a child lay the foundations to do such everyday tasks as writing, buttoning a shirt, tying shoe laces, grasping a pencil, using utensils, typing on a keyboard and much more. Fine motor skills can also help develop hand-eye coordination in young children.