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The Bubble Wrap Printmaker

OTPlan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:54:05 +0000

This activity is a wonderful way to explore textures. It helps your child understand how much pressure to use. Painting the bubbles requires focus and small movements. Pressing and peeling the paper involves both hands working together. The result is a cool, textured piece of art!

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Roller Path Painting

OTPlan — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:28:30 +0000

This activity focuses on improving fine motor control and the complex movements of the wrist and forearm. For preschoolers, developing forearm rotation (pronation and supination) is crucial for self-care skills like pouring and dressing. Using the small paper roll as a 'roller' encourages your child to stabilize their hand while moving their wrist with control. This is important for preparing their hands for drawing and writing tasks. It also works on eye-hand coordination to keep the roller inside the marked path.

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Snowflake Sisters

Danielle Noriega — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:39:16 +0000

This activity promotes fine motor skills (i.e. cutting with child-sized scissors, drawing with markers, squeezing a glue bottle, and manipulating painting utensils) involved in academics. In addition, it addresses sensory play through interaction with glue, salt, and watercolor textures.

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Clothespins Butterfly

OTPlan — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:31:07 +0000

Work on pincer grasp, finger strength, fine motor control, and cutting while creating a colorful butterfly using clothespins and construction paper.

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Paper Roll Caterpillar

OTPlan — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 23:28:34 +0000

Promote cutting skills, pincer grasp, bilateral hand use, and imagination by creating a caterpillar. Each little creature you make can be unique depending on how long you make it, the colors you use and how the caterpillar is decorated.

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Colorful flower art

OTPlan — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:28:17 +0000

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

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Decorated Bead Box

OTPlan — Mon, 20 May 2019 07:00:19 +0000

Decorate a plastic box with beads to work on fine motor control, pincer grasp, and tactile perception.

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Paper Bag Fish

OTPlan — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 08:57:14 +0000

This activity works on grasp and bilateral hand use by creating and painting a fish shape using a paper lunch bag and some yarn.

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TP Roll Snake

OTPlan — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 02:01:02 +0000

This activity works on multiple skills. The child will work on motor planning through a craft activity that has multiple steps. Painting with a brush or Q-tips will help develop grasp patterns, as well as work on visual motor skills. If using a tissue paper, the child can practice cutting skills by cutting small pieces and work on finger strengthening as he/she crumbles the pieces into little balls.

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Motor Spider

OTPlan — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 07:27:09 +0000

Kids love spiders! This fun activity will help your child develop and promote fine motor skills and tactile perception.

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