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Water Pocket Clip Boats

OTPlan — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:26:17 +0000

This fun sensory activity gives little hands a great workout. Your child uses strong finger muscles to squeeze the resistant clothespins open. Clipping the boats onto the dense, textured bag provides proprioceptive feedback. This sensation helps strengthen hand muscles needed for drawing and managing clothing fasteners. Holding the bag steady with one hand while the other hand clips promotes bilateral coordination. This activity builds up the muscle strength in the hands and forearms through playful effort. It is a calming and focused fine motor task.

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Resistance Trace Bag

OTPlan — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:59:29 +0000

This activity is fantastic for developing the small intrinsic muscles in the hands. Pressing a single finger firmly into the dense corn kernel mixture provides heavy work input. This strong, controlled pressure strengthens the fingers. Strong fingers are essential for tasks like managing clothing and holding a pencil with endurance. By tracing shapes, your child practices the visual motor coordination and finger isolation needed for pre-writing skills. This is a contained, low-mess way to work on writing readiness.

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Weighted Puck Push

OTPlan — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:33:47 +0000

This game provides heavy work input, strengthening the muscles in the shoulders and arms. It also improves the child's ability to plan movement and grade the force of their push.

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Squish Bag Stomp

OTPlan — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:03:09 +0000

This fun, sensory activity encourages your little one to explore different textures using their hands and feet, which is wonderful for tactile perception and developing stable balance and body awareness as they walk across the uneven surface.

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Sensory Squeeze Lines

OTPlan — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:10:48 +0000

This activity gives your child deep pressure input (proprioception) in their hands while strengthening their intrinsic muscles. Squeezing the thick paint mixture requires heavy work. This heavy work is very calming for the nervous system and helps improve focus. The goal is to control the paint flow precisely to trace lines. This develops the fine motor control and precise force needed for writing and drawing later on. It’s a fun way to improve hand endurance and bilateral coordination.

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Squeeze Noodle Maker

OTPlan — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:10:27 +0000

This fun, tactile activity is designed to strengthen small hand muscles (intrinsic muscles) and build coordination by requiring your child to use both hands together to stabilize the bag and squeeze the dough with focused effort.

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Beach Cup

OTPlan — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:01:24 +0000

This activity provides opportunities for sensory engagement (i.e. through vision, touch, smells, sounds, and eventually taste) in order to promote interaction with various food items during mealtime.

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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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Tactile Paint

OTPlan — Sat, 18 May 2019 08:37:15 +0000

Promote visual motor skills and improve finger isolation. In addition, work on processing of tactile input as the child moves his fingers along the paint.

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