This activity promotes tactile tolerance of wet textures through prolonged interaction with water and ice in order to encourage thoroughness of and enjoyment in hand hygiene.

Work on bilateral hand use, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor control by creating and playing with an abacus (counting frame) using paper rolls, pipe cleaners, and beads.

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

Using the tongs to pick up cotton balls or small object helps reinforce functional grasp as the child holds the tongs in the same manner she would hold a writing tool or scissors. In addition, this activity works on visual perception as the child has to place the object through the opening.

Work on pincer grasp, finger strength, fine motor control, and cutting while creating a colorful butterfly using clothespins and construction paper.

This activity is designed to strengthen the child’s finger muscles and to develop pincer grasp. Using different media and textures such as playdough , Floam© or Silly Putty© is good for developing the child’s tactile sense.

This activity promotes fine motor control skills and bilateral use of hands by using beads and pipe cleaners to form a shape of a person.

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

Decorate a plastic box with beads to work on fine motor control, pincer grasp, and tactile perception.

Use small pellets such as beans or small buttons to strengthen finger muscles and promote pincer grasp pattern.

This fun activity works on the small muscles of the hand and promotes pincer grasp.

This activity is designed primarily for hand strengthening.

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

This activity will help to improve attention, especially visual attention by lining up items.

This activity provides the child with proprioceptive input by using a scooter board or animal walk.

In this activity, the child will use tweezers to transfer and manipulate small objects.

This activity works on grasp and manual dexterity/in-hand manipulation by stringing small objects on spaghetti.