In this activity, the child works on ADL (Activities of Daily Living) by promoting buttoning and visual perception skills.

This activity is designed to practice opening and closing tools like scissors by playing an easy to setup game with grading options.

This activity works on trunk strengthening and proprioception by having the child wheelbarrow walk and complete simple tasks.

This activity works on shoulder strength using a leopard crawl obstacle course.

This is a great activity for hot summer days. This fun activity reinforces pincer grasp and assists in strengthening the arches of the hand. Playing with water also provides tactile input.

This game helps promote eye-hand coordination and visual tracking/spatial skills.

It’s all about using handy materials to enhance your child’s developmental skills in a playful and creative way. Create a marble painting of the American flag and promote bilateral hand use, eye-hand coordination, fine motor control, and visual motor.

Use paper rolls and pom-poms to play a matching colors game while promoting grasp, core strength, grasp, crossing midline, and eye-hand coordination.

Develop and strengthen finger muscles which may contribute to a proper grasp of writing tools.

This activity gives the child an opportunity to explore a variety of tactile media and develop his/her stereognosis sense.

In this activity, the child will promote motor planning skills, as he plans his route on the spider web. In addition, he will strengthen his balance skills and his core, while walking on the web lines and squatting down to pick up objects

In this activity the child will strengthen his grasping skills and eye-hand coordination skills by inserting pipe cleaners or straws into the holes of a spice/herb jar.

This fun activity promotes the child’s finger strength through the play with clothespins. The child will also strengthen color matching skills.

This activity promotes balance and eye-hand coordination. In addition, it provides tactile input as the child submerges his hand in a container filled with beans.

This simple activity assists in developing fine motor skills especially focusing on pincer grasp and thumb opposition.

Scooping ice cream is a fun activity that promotes ADL skills. In this activity, we combine finger strength with the development of cutting skills, as the child makes his own ice cream in a cone.

The original purpose is for ADL skill of pre-buttoning however this activity has many applications.

Practice imitating basic pre-writing shapes.

This activity strengthens the finger muscles and helps in developing the tripod grasp.

This activity should be done outdoors. The squirting motion strengthens the hand muscles and promotes bilateral coordination. When using the squirt bottle to draw shapes or write letters, this activity also develops visual motor skills.

This activity promotes the use of scissors and helps the child imitate movements that are similar to the ones used for cutting. In addition, this activity develops the child’s sensory processing through exposing him/her to the touch of water.

This is a fun activity that helps to promote fine motor skills, such as cutting and grasping. It also provides the child with tactile input.

This activity provides the child with tactile input as he digs in the selected media to find matching objects. The goal is to have the child use an appropriate grasp while pulling the object out of the container.

This activity works on tactile processing and stereognosis allowing the child to be exposed to a variety of textures.

This activity works on pincer grasp by sorting different colored ribbons using tweezers.

This activity encourages and promotes pre writing skills by allowing the child to practice letter formation using a paint brush and water.