Create a flower out of toilet paper rolls, glue, and color to promote cutting skills, visual motor, and bilateral hand use.

This is a great activity for hot summer days. This fun activity reinforces pincer grasp and assists in strengthening the arches of the hand. Playing with water also provides tactile input.

This game helps promote eye-hand coordination and visual tracking/spatial skills.

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.

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.

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

Develop and strengthen finger muscles which may contribute to a proper grasp of writing tools.

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.