Promote balance and eye-legs coordination, and motor planning by jumping between pillows/steppingstones and knocking down blocks/water bottles along your route.

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 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 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.