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Puff Ball Soccer Challenge

OTPlan — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:04:52 +0000

This fun, competitive game is designed to work Oral Motor Skills, Eye-Hand Coordination & Visual Tracking, and Social Interaction.

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Sticky Straw Scoop

OTPlan — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:05:02 +0000

This playful challenge helps children develop exceptional fingertip control and visual precision. It strengthens the fine motor skills essential for dressing, drawing, and holding a pencil efficiently.

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Candy Cane

OTPlan — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:47:05 +0000

Simple, fun, and festive activity to promote eye-hand coordination, pincer grasp, and strengthen the hand muscles.

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Fine Motor Marble Maze

OTPlan — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:03:14 +0000

A great way to work on fine motor skills (specifically finger isolation), visual-motor coordination, visual tracking, and bilateral coordination of the hands by creating a simple marble maze.

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PickUp Straws Game

OTPlan — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:47:20 +0000

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.

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Straw Necklaces

OTPlan — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 04:03:42 +0000

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.

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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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Drawing in the Sand

OTPlan — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:40:34 +0000

Practice imitating basic pre-writing shapes.

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Sensory Salad

OTPlan — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:20:47 +0000

In this activity, the child gets to use his imagination as he works on promoting his fine motor skills and his ability to process tactile input. This is a fun activity to do in a small group for social interaction and promotion of language.

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Birthday Cake

OTPlan — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:39:20 +0000

This activity primarily focuses on fine motor skills and hand strengthening. You can grade this project to involve as many skills as necessary.

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