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. 

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

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.

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

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

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.

Kids love spiders! This fun activity will help your child develop and promote fine motor skills and tactile perception.

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 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.

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

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 encourages and promotes pre writing skills by allowing the child to practice letter formation using a paint brush and water.

Draw 2″ circles on the cardboard sheets. Cut them out, or let the child cut them if the cardboard is …