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Foot motor skills: bare feet on different surfaces!

Sensory silicone mats

How excited children are every time these mats appear! These mats challenge the sense of touch of the feet and hands and stimulate foot motor skills, among other things. Children stand on the mats and feel with their feet what structure the mats have. It stimulates tactile perception, which mat do they have in their hand and what are they standing on? Are these the same? If children dare, you can do this blindfolded, so that they can only rely on the tactile perception of hands and feet. You play a memory game by blindfolded and looking for the same mats by feeling with hands and feet. The silicone mats can also be used for barefoot paths, a course and jumping from one mat to another.

Foot motor skills are stimulated by the sensory silicone mats

It is important that foot motor skills develop well. The feet have a direct influence on the development of stability and balance. It ensures that children literally stand firmly. When the feet have developed well and the reflexes associated with this are well integrated, a child is able to roll off the feet and prevents, among other things, toe walking. Weak foot motor skills can result in an underdeveloped balance system, which results in delayed development. This has an influence on cognitive skills, such as speech and abstract thinking. You stimulate foot motor skills by, among other things, walking barefoot on different surfaces.

The sensory silicone mat set consists of five large and five small mats. Each mat has a different color and structure, waves, antennae, stripes, dots and circles.