This activity promotes fine motor skills, such as lacing, tying, cutting, squeezing, and gluing.

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.

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.

Develop manual dexterity and strengthening the finger muscles by crumpling tissue paper into small balls.

This holiday activity works on cutting skills and promotes pincer grasp by creating a Christmas tree from different sized circles.

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.

This fun and sticky activity is great for the development of the child’s tactile skills. Together with an adult’s help, the child can create a colorful bowl and practice cutting skills and pincer grasp as well.

Make your own cardboard guitar with rubber band strings to work on finger strength and fine motor control.

This activity helps the child practice cutting lines. Using glue as oppose to stapler promotes sensory processing.

This activity works on pincer grasp and body awareness skills by creating a penguin out of different size pom-poms and glue.

This activity promotes pincer grasp and visual motor skills by creating and decorating an acorn shape.

This is a fun activity that promotes the child’s fine motor skills and works mainly on bilateral use of hands and pincer grasp as the child tears the construction paper into small pieces.

A great way to work on fine motor skills (specifically finger isolation), visual-motor coordination, visual tracking, and bilateral coordination of the hands by creating a simple marble maze.

Promote cutting skills, pincer grasp, bilateral hand use, and imagination by creating a caterpillar. Each little creature you make can be unique depending on how long you make it, the colors you use and how the caterpillar is decorated.

Craft your own personal Forky character from Toy Story 4 while working on bilateral coordination and grasp.

Create a flower out of toilet paper rolls, glue, and color to promote cutting skills, visual motor, and bilateral hand use.

This colorful activity promotes finger strength and functional grasp. The child will practice cutting skills as he cuts a leaf for his new caterpillar friend.

Promote fine motor control skills and bilateral use of hands by using pipe cleaners and a craft stick. Create a small play animals and decorate it.

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 activity works on grasp and bilateral hand use by creating and painting a fish shape using a paper lunch bag and some yarn.

This activity promotes cutting skills and visual motor skills.

Create a finger puppet mouse while working on visual motor and eye-hand coordination skills using construction paper and glue.

This activity develops pre-writing skills (drawing a face), imitation skills (copying from a model), fine motor skills (cutting and pincer grasp) as well as hand strength and control. Children are motivated to complete this activity and will be pleased that they have their own “pet”.

This activity involves tracing and cutting and is great for the development of visual motor skills.

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.

This activity promotes grasping skills and provides tactile input by creating a little bird from differently sized pom-poms.

This activity promotes the child’s cutting skills, visual motor skills and bilateral use of hands. You can have the child cut different shapes (straight lines, curved lines, circles, or squares) based on the child’s developmental stage and abilities.

This fall activity promotes pincer grasp by using tongs to move and glue leaves across midline.

Create a Wind Sock using craft sticks, markers, toilet paper roll, glue, tape, string, and tissue paper. Promote fine motor control, cutting, bilateral hand use, and visual motor skills.

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

Create a toy felt bird and promote cutting, tactile perception, and motor planning.

Multi step activity that promotes fine motor control and cutting skills.

Work on tactile perception, hand dexterity, and visual motor by creating a sheep figure out of toilet roll and cotton balls.

Work on bilateral hand use, cutting, and pincer grasp by creating a colorful fish out of egg carton.

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 the opportunity to draw different shapes and practice his cutting skills.

This is a fun activity for the spring, or any time of the year. The child is working on strengthening his fine motor integration skills by drawing shapes and on his cutting skills. Coloring the butterfly, decorating it, and twisting the pipe cleaners, is good for working on fine motor control and manual dexterity skills.

The activity promotes visual motor skills and fine motor skills as the child uses scissors and a paint brush (or any other coloring utensils).

The activity focuses on developing fine motor and visual motor skills. The child has the opportunity to work on visual perception skills while tracing his body parts.

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 promotes visual motor skills by working on grasp, cutting, and fine motor control.

This is an interactive social activity that involves the development of visual perception skills, fine motor skills, and sensory processing.

This activity works on grasp and finger strengthening as well as fine motor control skills by building a mini model airplane out of a clothespin and wooden sticks.

This activity exposes the child to tactile stimuli and works on cutting skills by creating a sunflower out of the child’s hand prints.

This activity helps promote cutting skills and bilateral hand use as the child crafts a bee shape out of construction paper.

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.

Create an Addition Turtle to promote writing, cutting, bilateral hand use, and pincer grasp.