This activity provides opportunities for fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, and problem-solving skills.

This activity provides opportunities for fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, and problem-solving skills.

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.

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

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.

This game is working on the development of the child’s stereognosis skills as well as promoting visual perception by playing a shape finder game.

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

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

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.

This activity will help teach the child to control the direction of the scissors (cutting lines) and bilateral hand use.

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.

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

Easter Eggs are so fun! Bright colors and so many creative ways to use them! In this activity, the child works on bilateral hand use and grading his force when putting the eggs together, and on visual perception as he tries to match the 2 colors as shown on the cards.

Promote forearm pronation by filling up paper cups using water bottles.

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 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 works on thumb opposition as the child pinches the clothespins using the thumb and each finger in isolation.

The activity is designed to develop and promote fine motor and visual motor skills, as well as to strengthen the finger muscles by manipulating school supplies.

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

This activity allows the child to create a unique paper texture. The goal is to promote the child’s fine motor skills and control by utilizing both hands, cutting, and painting. The use of finger paint allows the child to work on processing tactile input.

In this activity, the child will work on developing his fine motor skills through drawing, cutting, and pasting stickers as he creates a colorful bookmark.

Work on forearm pronation, supination, and grasp.

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 activity works on fine manual control skills by cutting and folding construction paper to make a decorated lunch box.

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

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

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.

The child will work on letter recognition, letter formation, and letter placement/sizing.

This activity addresses finger isolation, direction following, and color recognition by playing a mini twister game.

When done in prone, this activity provides core strengthening, upper body strengthening, and proprioceptive input.

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.

This is a fun and creative activity that works on tolerating tactile input and finger isolation.

This winter themed activity can be done all year long. It promotes the child’s visual perceptual skills as the child is looking for matching mittens, and fine motor skills as the child manipulates the clothespins. If you let the child cut the mittens and decorate them as well, you also work on visual motor skills.