- Boosts communication, language and literacy
- Builds a secure foundation for fast, fluent handwriting
- Enriches language and expands vocabulary
- Promotes self-regulation, focussed attention and deliberate memory
- Fosters social and communication skills
- Improves hand eye co-ordination
- Helps children to gain and retain manual dexterity
- Improves pincer and tripod grip, promoting better pencil and pen control
- Strengthens postural and upper body muscles in the shoulders and neck
- Develops wrist strength, extension and stability
- Fosters fine motor control and differentiated finger movements
- Improves the ability to isolate and move each finger independently
- Promotes spatial awareness and develops spatial orientation
- Helps to relieve tension and relax tense finger muscles
- Develops the ability to follow verbal instructions
- Encourages precise imitation of physical actions
- Improves sequential memory
- Promotes attentive listening and active participation
- Reinforces the child’s sense of rhythm and beat
- Promotes development of clear articulation and expressive speech
- Fosters response to story and verse through gesture and movement
- Boosts self-confidence and self-esteem
- Stimulates creativity and imagination
- Offers joyous experiential learning
- Fosters positive bonding, co-operation and a sense of belonging
