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 fine motor skills and addresses tactile defensiveness.

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.

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

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

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

This activity works on multiple skills. The child will work on motor planning through a craft activity that has multiple steps. Painting with a brush or Q-tips will help develop grasp patterns, as well as work on visual motor skills. If using a tissue paper, the child can practice cutting skills by cutting small pieces and work on finger strengthening as he/she crumbles the pieces into little balls.

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

This activity works on hand strengthening, cutting skills, and completing a multi-step directions task.

This fun, Thanksgiving related activity, promotes cutting skills, as well as provides tactile input, as the child feels the different textures glued onto the turkey’s feathers.

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 is a fun activity to promote fine motor control skills. It involves tracing, cutting, and grasp strengthening.

This is a fun visual motor craft for St. Patrick’s day. The activity has multiple steps, which works on the child’s motor planning skills, in addition to promoting fine motor and visual motor skills as the child traces, cuts, and glues the different materials. For this activity, it is recommended to use green, yellow, or gold objects (i.e pipe cleaners, tissue paper, green pasta, etc.)

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.

This activity promotes cutting skills and motor planning through the task. Give the child the instructions verbally and support with visuals if needed. Observe if the child is able to motor plan through the three steps (cut, glue, color/decorate) without assistance.