How skillful and quick the fingers are when handling small objects. Good dexterity helps with tying shoes, handling coins, and manipulating fasteners.
Place the beads in an open container.
Ask the child to dip the paint brush in glue or for tactile perception use his fingers. Cover one side of the plastic container with glue.
Using 2 fingers pick up one bead at a time and stick it on the plastic container.
Rotate the plastic container and repeat covering each side with glue and sticking beads on it.
For grading, use the tweezers to pick up the beads and stick on the plastic container.
On a sheet of construction paper, sketch a simple picture, or allow the child to draw a picture/shape.
Using the glue, instruct the child to trace the outline of the picture.
Once the picture is outlined with glue, ask the child to pick up one bean or button at a time, and glue it along the outline of the picture.
If you wish to promote translation skills (finger to palm and palm to finger), ask the child to pick up 2 or more beans, transferring them one at a time into the palm of their hand, then transfer them out, one at a time, to be glued on the outline.
Let the child continue pasting the reminder of the beans on the picture, putting the beans close to each other.
To grade the activity up, provide the child with tweezers to pick up the beans.
Use larger buttons or pom-poms to grade the activity down.
For this activity, you will need a number of small containers, depending on the sorting criteria you chose, and an assortment of buttons (i.e. size, color, number of holes on the button).
Place the buttons on a plate or in a larger container. place the small containers in front of the child as well. Allow the child to sort the buttons by size, color, number of holes, etc.
As the child picks up each button, encourage him to use his thumb and pointer fingers to help with developing pincer grasp.
To work on thumb opposition, ask the child to pick up each button with his thumb and middle finger, thumb and ring finger or thumb, and pinkie.
Pull open the TP roll all the way.
Provide the child with paint and a brush and instruct him to paint it. You can also choose markers or crayons to color the snake.
Once dry, you can have the child use Q-tips to paint the snake, or crumble little pieces of tissue paper, and/or use stickers.
Depending on the child developmental skills, either cut a snake’s tongue out of red construction paper or have him cut it himself.
Finally, the child can glue the tongue and the wiggly eyes on one end of the TP roll. If you don’t have wiggly eyes in hand, you can use small buttons.
For this activity, you will need 3 pom-poms in different sizes. You can use almost any pom-pom color.
Start by instructing the child to cut an oval shape out of the cardboard (length should be about 2″ – 3″).
Glue the large pom-pom (red) to the oval-shaped cardboard. This will be the bird’s body.
Glue the medium pom-pom (red) on top of the large pom-pom. This will be the bird’s head.
Glue the smallest pom-pom (yellow) to the medium pom-pom forming a bird’s beak.
Glue the wiggle eyes above the beak.
