This activity provides opportunities for visual motor skills.

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

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

This activity promotes fine motor skills, ideation, and motor planning while braiding a puppy tug toy.

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 primarily addresses visual perception, hand-eye coordination, and visual-motor skills. These are foundational skills to writing tasks, and will give you insight on awareness of letter reversals.

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 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.

We’re making Dr. Seuss’s hat to practice cutting skills and promote eye-hand coordination, and bilateral hand use.

Simple, fun, and festive activity to promote eye-hand coordination, pincer grasp, and strengthen the hand muscles.

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.

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 activity develops fine motor control (coloring within the lines of simple shape), attention to task and following of multi-step directions (following prompts such as “color the star yellow”), fine motor skills (cutting) and visual motor skills (putting puzzle together).

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

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

This activity promotes fine motor control skills and bilateral use of hands by using beads and pipe cleaners to form a shape of a person.

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.

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.

It’s all about using handy materials to enhance your child’s developmental skills in a playful and creative way. Create a marble painting of the American flag and promote bilateral hand use, eye-hand coordination, fine motor control, and visual motor.

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.

This activity promotes the development of cutting skill. Letting the child cut easy media such as straws is a great way to introduce and practice cutting.

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.

The use of a single hole puncher promotes the child’s cutting skills. In addition, this activity assists in developing pincer grasp as the child strings the yarn into the holes.

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.

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.

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.

This is a pre-cutting activity that helps the child in learning the proper way to open and close scissors.

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 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.

In this activity, the child will practice his eye-hand coordination skills in addition to developing his fine motor skills.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a fun activity that helps to promote fine motor skills, such as cutting and grasping. It also provides the child with tactile input.

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.)

The child will be working on receiving and processing propreoceptive input while laying prone on the therapy ball. This activity also works on trunk control and upper extremities strengthening.

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

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

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 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.

In addition to the strengthening of the finger muscles, this activity helps in developing the child’s cutting skills as the child imitates the cutting motion by using a single hole puncher.

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

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.