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The Balancing Cardboard Bird

OTPlan — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:15:13 +0000

This activity is a wonderful way to explore gravity and balance while working on hand strength. Your child will use their hands to create a stable toy that stays upright on its own. It encourages patience and precision as they find the perfect spot for the weights. This challenge helps build focus and rewards them with a fun, moving creation!

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The Cardboard Coin Slide

OTPlan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:48:42 +0000

This fun activity helps your child practice using both hands together. One hand holds the cardboard ramp steady. The other hand carefully releases the coin. This builds focus and hand coordination. It also encourages visual tracking as they follow the coin down. You can change the slope of the ramp to see how fast the coin rolls. It is a simple way to build motor control!

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The Foil Texture Rubbing

OTPlan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:24:26 +0000

This artistic activity encourages your child to explore different textures in their environment while developing their hand strength. By pressing and rubbing foil over hidden objects, they receive satisfying sensory feedback. It requires both hands to work together to keep the foil steady and reveal the 'treasure' underneath. This is a fun way to practice control over the small muscles in the fingers, which is helpful for handwriting and other daily tasks.

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The Pool Noodle Penny Bank

OTPlan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:36:00 +0000

This activity is a great way to practice in-hand manipulation. This means moving objects inside one hand using only your fingers. Kids use this skill when handling money or adjusting a pencil. Pushing coins into the foam builds finger strength and distal finger control. This helps with handwriting precision and endurance. By adding point values, we also turn a simple exercise into a fun game. This helps your child practice planning and executive functioning.

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The Palm-Flip Treasure Drop

OTPlan — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:34:30 +0000

This game helps your child learn to turn their palm upward. This movement is called forearm supination. It is vital for tasks like eating with a spoon or washing their face. Using a 'treasure' cup makes this therapeutic exercise fun. We want to see the wrist rotate without the whole arm moving. Controlling these small movements helps with using hairbrushes later. The pincer grasp used here also builds strength for writing.

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Baking Cup Coin Balance

OTPlan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:26:54 +0000

This activity helps children develop precision and steady hands. By floating paper cups, they practice careful movement. Placing coins one by one requires great control. It is a wonderful way to build focus!

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Treasure Hunt Sensory Bin

Danielle Noriega — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:27:39 +0000

This activity provides opportunities for sensory engagement (i.e. through vision and touch) in order to promote tolerance of different textures and (messy) sights.

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Guess the Toy

Danielle Noriega — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:06:49 +0000

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.

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Playdough Therapy Treasure

OTPlan — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:58:01 +0000

This activity is designed to strengthen the child's finger muscles and to develop pincer grasp. Using different media and textures such as playdough , Floam© or Silly Putty© is good for developing the child's tactile sense.

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Fun Jar

OTPlan — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:16:40 +0000

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.

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