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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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.