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Narrator: In the Perceptual and Motor Development domain, the strand Motor Development includes the foundation Fine Motor Development. Children from 4 through 11 months use their hands and fingers to explore objects.

Example 1

Text on screen: Uses hands to explore objects, such as by grasping and reaching

On screen: 10-month-old Audrey sits in a feeding chair wearing a bib. She is eating spiral pasta. She grasps a few pieces in one fist and brings her hand to her mouth to eat.

Audrey reaches back to her plate and picks up more pasta. She lifts her fingers to her mouth and eats. A piece falls back onto the tray. She picks up what she dropped and eats it. She grabs and eats another handful of pasta.

Audrey begins bouncing happily in her chair, looking at the food on her plate and tray. She picks up more pasta with her left hand and uses the fingers of her right hand to push pasta around on her tray. She brings her left hand to her mouth and eats the pasta stuck to the back of her fingers.

Example 2

Text on screen: Uses hands to explore objects, such as by grasping and banging

On screen: 7-month-old Daniil lies on his back on a carpeted floor. He holds a wood and string geometric toy in his hands at belly level, tapping it lightly. He begins moving and turning the toy in his hands. He grasps the toy by knobs at its corners and holds it up over his face, then lowers it to his and chest. Holding the toy in one hand, he taps it repeatedly with the other hand.

Using both hands, Daniil holds the toy close over his face and looks at it closely. He lowers the toy to his chest and starts tapping it again.

Example 3

Text on screen: Uses hands to explore objects, such as by grasping, reaching, and shaking

On screen: 9-month-old Skye holds a wooden peg toy in both hands. She shakes it back and forth a few times before putting it down.

Skye gets up on her hands and knees to reach for a wooden rattle. She grasps it in one hand, losing her balance as she tries to shake it.

She drops the rattle and crawls forward on her hands and knees. She stops and reaches out to touch a small toy elephant. She tries to pick it up and it tips over. She sits back down and reaches to pick the rattle.

Skye shakes the rattle in her right hand. Her left hand rests on a wooden ring. She stops shaking the rattle and uses her left hand to push the ring behind her.