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Pencil Grasp
Pencil Grasp
- Encourage pincer grasp (thumb and forefinger together) for each of these activities
- Picking up small items, beads, pennies and other small manipulatives
- Using tongs and tweezers to pick up small items
- Putting pennies in slots
- Using clothes pins
- Bingo with chips
- LiteBrite
- Pegboards
- Stringing beads together
- Eyebolt lacing boards
- Using broken (or shortened) crayons inhibits use of full palmar grasp
- Popping bubble wrap
- Closing ziplock bags
- Peeling Stamps and stickers
- Crumbling small bits of paper into balls
- Using eye droppers to make colorful art
Fine Motor Strength and Endurance
Fine Motor Strength and Endurance
- Putty
- Loom weaving
- Cat's Cradle
- Gimp and embroidery floss bracelet making
- Stress Balls
- Fidget toys
- Interlocking construction toys
- Craft activities that require using bottles to squeeze (glue, puffy paint, glitter glue)
- Water play with squirt guns, spray bottles
- Making confetti with a hole punch
Fine Motor Precision
Fine Motor Precision
- Writing with vibrating pen
- Writing on vertical surface to improve wrist stabilization and isolation of digits
- Mazes
- Tracing intricate concrete drawings
- Coloring books, encourage staying inside lines
- Color by number books
- Encourage use of helper hand to stabilize paper
- Games like Trouble, Operation, Suspend, Perfection, Pancake Pileup
Scissor Skills
Scissor Skills
- Practice cutting unconventional items to increase interest, i.e. stems off flowers, string cheese to make cheese bites, plastic straws to make beads for a necklace.
- Snip edges of paper to make frayed art projects
- Practice cutting in a straight line first, move on to curved lines and then shapes.
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