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Wet Paper Squeeze & Drop

OTPlan — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:26:15 +0000

This activity is excellent for building hand strength. Tearing resistant newspaper requires strong bilateral hand use. Squeezing the wet paper provides intense proprioceptive feedback. This heavy work is calming and organizes the nervous system. Aiming the wet, dense paper balls into a narrow target improves eye-hand coordination. It helps develop the muscle power needed for skills like grasping toys and using scissors.

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Sponge Weight Release

OTPlan — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:51:12 +0000

This activity provides wonderful heavy work input for the hand and arm muscles. Squeezing a water-filled sponge builds finger and hand strength, which is crucial for pencil control and self-help skills like opening containers. Carrying the wet, heavy sponge across the floor engages the shoulder and core stabilizers (proximal stability). The goal of releasing the water over a target also refines eye-hand coordination and motor control.

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Vertical Garden Push

OTPlan — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:49:39 +0000

This fun activity uses a vertical surface to naturally engage your child’s shoulder and arm muscles, building the essential 'proximal stability' needed for successful writing and cutting later on. Pushing the sticks into the putty also gives great practice for strengthening small hand muscles and stabilizing the wrist.

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Pom-Pom Popper Target Game

OTPlan — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:39:08 +0000

This fun launching game helps your child practice using both hands together (bilateral coordination) while strengthening their shoulder muscles and improving their aiming skills (visual motor coordination).

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Basket Sock for Eye-Hand Coordination

OTPlan — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:20:53 +0000

This activity works on promoting eye-hand coordination necessary for activities such as catching a ball or copying from the blackboard. In addition, the child is working on stability and shoulder strengthening through the activation of the arm.

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Pickup Relay Games

OTPlan — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:17:47 +0000

This activity is designed to practice opening and closing tools like scissors by playing an easy to setup game with grading options.

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Roll, Crawl, and Jump

OTPlan — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:22:40 +0000

The vestibular system is the first of the sensory systems to develop in uterus. This fun roll, crawl, and jump activity provides vestibular input and can be easily done at home.

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Wheelbarrow Walking

OTPlan — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:15:46 +0000

This activity works on trunk strengthening and proprioception by having the child wheelbarrow walk and complete simple tasks.

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Matching Socks Game

OTPlan — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:40:51 +0000

This fun activity works mainly on visual memory, matching, and categorization. The activity allows the child to take part in household chores and it also provides a great opportunity to spend special time with caregivers.

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Cherry Grasp

OTPlan — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 23:39:22 +0000

Using the tweezers to pick up the cherries helps reinforce functional grasp as the child holds the tongs in the same manner writing tool or scissors should be held. In addition, this activity works on visual perception as the child has to retrieve the cherry from a group of other cherries and place it into a small bucket.

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