Technical place for the development of motor skills of 4-6 year old children

In the theoretical part of this paper, we focus on the importance of playtime and technical education and the connection between them so that a child develops many competences and skills. If playtime is designed to have a particular goal and is presented in a playful and interesting way, then a child will certainly either reach the goal or get closer to it with persistence. We also present types of play and the kindergarten curriculum, where we touch upon technical education with each area of development. We mention that a child develops fine motor skills with the help of technical education, and why it is important to teach it through playtime. We present the activities to train fine motor skills and the reasons why it is important to develop them already in the pre-school period. In the empirical part, we analyse the results of the surveys we had distributed among kindergarten teachers and kindergarten teacher assistants. With the surveys, we wanted to find out how often the teachers carry out technical education in kindergartens, which children they help to develop fine motor skills, and which activity they make use of the most. We also wanted to find out how important the teachers find the development of fine motor skills and the results have shown that most of them find it crucial. From the results, we have gathered that most of the teachers observe that children have problems with fine motor skills. I planned the activities that I performed in a kindergarten based on those that are not often performed (hammering and sewing), and to check as many skills as possible with the children. I carried out the testing twice, with a one-month interval. After the first testing, most children had problems with the same skills, some stood out with exceptional skills, and others had more problems. With the second testing, there was noticeable progress with every one of the children, especially with those who had more problems at the first testing. The reason for the progress was certainly the technical corner in the playroom with available equipment, materials and games that help develop fine motor skills