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

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.

This activity is good for children who work on their pincer grasp or on finger separation/thumb opposition. You can ask the child to use his thumb and pointer, thumb and middle finger, thumb and ring finger, or thumb and pinkie, to pick up the straws. For this game, you can use colorful straws, pens, colored pencils, toothpicks or pipe-cleaners.

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.

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.

Practice imitating basic pre-writing shapes.

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 primarily focuses on fine motor skills and hand strengthening. You can grade this project to involve as many skills as necessary.