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Fine motor skills / Gross motor skills As babies develop, they learn how to move their arms and legs in increasingly well-controlled movements. The culmination of this process is learning to walk. These movements are gross motor skills.

From this stage on, children begin to learn fine motor skills – for example, drawing lines, then shapes, and eventually learning to write.