Buttoning is a fun fine motor skill to work on! It is more motivating when it involves our children’s favorite characters. This activity promotes fine motor and self-care skills (i.e. dressing). in this case, Noodle & Pals from Super Simple Songs.

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

This activity promotes bilateral coordination and grasp using a fun game.

This activity addresses cutting skills for beginners.

This activity promotes stereognosis (identifying an object through touch instead of vision), visual perception, and tactile input. This activity bridges the connection in our brains between what we see and what we physically feel. We use these skills for tasks, such as efficiently locating items in our backpacks without looking.

This activity promotes fine motor skills (i.e. cutting with child-sized scissors, drawing with markers, squeezing a glue bottle, and manipulating painting utensils) involved in academics. In addition, it addresses sensory play through interaction with glue, salt, and watercolor textures. 

We’re making Dr. Seuss’s hat to practice cutting skills and promote eye-hand coordination, and bilateral hand use.

This activity provides tactile input and works on finger isolation by creating a picture of a turkey using the child’s fingerprints.

This Thanksgiving activity helps promote pincer grasp and works on cutting skills as well as hand strengthening as the child pinches the clothespins and places them as feathers on the turkey’s body.

Fall activity to promote sensory processing with dry leaves and glue while creating a unique art project.