Any motor activity such as paper folding craft or origami, which requires the use of hands to hold, fold, grasp, press, tear, turn or operate hand tools, can help to strengthen hand’s and fingers' fine or gross muscles; provide sensory and coordination skills development experiences as well as compensatory therapeutic opportunities..
Furthermore, the play with the finished origami toy involving actions such as pull-push and other release movements in are helpful in sustained holding of the toy in child's hands makes micro-muscles stronger.
Pressing paper for getting creases by exert force against the resting surface using the hands and fingers allows the development of necessary muscle power for controlled movement.
paper folding and pressing involves slow and mindful actions result into fine motor skills aid in the growth of kinesthetic intelligence,
Fine motor hand skills are involved in smaller movements that occur in the wrists, hands and fingers with smaller actions to provide coordination and manipulating paper afforded movement therapy
Earlier, I had tried orgami as therapy with the child studying in grade five suffered the loss of muscle memory after successful brain tumour surgery resulting into hand’s fine and gross motor weakness (neurological ideomotor apraxia) and rehabilitation was attempted making of dynamic paper folding toys as a movement therapy in inclusive classroom. This improved the grasp of child while handling spoon and tooth brush. To get a feel for non-craft use of origami, watch the following video.
LINK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu7dzFtHP7M
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