Sensory Processing - OTPlan

Heavy Foil Rock Decorate

OTPlan — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:04:17 +0000

This activity provides fantastic proprioceptive input, which is the 'heavy work' children need for calming and focus. By intensely squeezing the aluminum foil into a dense rock, your child strengthens all the small muscles in their hands necessary for daily tasks like buttoning and grasping a pencil. Following the heavy work, the challenge shifts to precision. Using a neat pincer grasp to handle and place the tiny dry beans demands strong distal finger control and excellent eye-hand coordination. Stabilizing the dense rock with their helper hand while decorating it improves bilateral hand use and proximal stability.

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Wet Paper Squeeze & Drop

OTPlan — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:26:15 +0000

This activity is excellent for building hand strength. Tearing resistant newspaper requires strong bilateral hand use. Squeezing the wet paper provides intense proprioceptive feedback. This heavy work is calming and organizes the nervous system. Aiming the wet, dense paper balls into a narrow target improves eye-hand coordination. It helps develop the muscle power needed for skills like grasping toys and using scissors.

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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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Ice Cube Handwash

Danielle Noriega — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:17:23 +0000

This activity promotes tactile tolerance of wet textures through prolonged interaction with water and ice in order to encourage thoroughness of and enjoyment in hand hygiene.

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Easter Egg Hunt with Spoons

OTPlan — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:15:52 +0000

Easter Egg Hunt activity that you can do indoors to work on balance, motor planning, pacing, bilateral coordination and more.

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Therapy Mat Sensory Burrito

OTPlan — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:21:05 +0000

This therapy mat is unique as it is flexible enough to fold and roll inside it. We're using the therapy mat to make a burrito and roll the child inside to provide both proprioceptive and vestibular input.

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Fingerprint Turkey

OTPlan — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:25:02 +0000

This activity provides tactile input and works on finger isolation by creating a picture of a turkey using the child's fingerprints.

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Fall Crunchy Art

OTPlan — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:36:47 +0000

Fall activity to promote sensory processing with dry leaves and glue while creating a unique art project.

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Roll, Crawl, and Jump

OTPlan — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:22:40 +0000

The vestibular system is the first of the sensory systems to develop in uterus. This fun roll, crawl, and jump activity provides vestibular input and can be easily done at home.

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Paper Chain

OTPlan — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:28:11 +0000

This activity helps the child practice cutting lines. Using glue as oppose to stapler promotes sensory processing.

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