This activity provides opportunities for fine motor and visual motor skills.

This activity promotes fine motor skills and addresses tactile defensiveness.

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

Use paper rolls and pom-poms to play a matching colors game while promoting grasp, core strength, grasp, crossing midline, and eye-hand coordination.

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.

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

Scooping ice cream is a fun activity that promotes ADL skills. In this activity, we combine finger strength with the development of cutting skills, as the child makes his own ice cream in a cone.

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.

In this activity, the child gets to use his imagination as he works on promoting his fine motor skills and his ability to process tactile input. This is a fun activity to do in a small group for social interaction and promotion of language.

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.

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 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 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.