What your child will discover
Help the child understand that hands and fingers perform many actions, including touching, grasping, pointing, releasing, stacking, feeding, drawing, waving, and helping with simple tasks.
Lesson 059 of 300
What Can My Hands and Fingers Do?
Explore pointing, grasping, holding, drawing, feeding, building, waving, and other safe hand movements.
12–24 monthsBody, Clothing & FoodAdult guided
This language pathway is active. The authoritative curriculum lesson is currently presented in its original English while its reviewed local-language edition is prepared.
Body, Clothing & Food · KnowledgeForKids.com
Listen together · adult controls the audio
The spoken lesson
"Your hands have palms, thumbs, and fingers. Hands and fingers help you do many things. You can touch a safe surface, hold a large object, point to something, and let an object go. You can stack large blocks, help hold a spoon, make marks with a child-safe crayon, and wave hello or goodbye. Hands also help with simple jobs, such as placing a cloth in a basket. Small, sharp, hot, electrical, and dangerous objects stay away. We use gentle hands with people, animals, books, plants, and breakable things." DESIGN REQUIREMENTS: Use large-object activities and slow demonstrations. Avoid precision scoring, handwriting expectations, finger-speed games, or pressure to use one hand.
Words to notice together
HANDSFINGERSTHUMBTOUCHHOLDPOINTSTACKDRAW
Make it real
Pause, point, name what you notice, and connect the idea to something familiar in your child's day. Repetition, a calm voice, shared attention and dependable care matter more than finishing quickly.