use pincer tools to pick up small items including pom poms, small erasers, mini marshmallows, cheerios or pony beads

use eye droppers with colored water to decorate coffee filters. Turn your coffee filters into butterflies

tear and crumple paper to create a picture (flowers on a tree or bumble bees on a flower)

use pegs or toothpicks to make designs in play dough

roll play dough into little balls, squish the balls with pincer fingers

place pennies into a slotted container

"squirreling" ...pick up as many pom poms with pincer fingers one at a time with one hand, squirreling them away into the palm of the hand

place the above pom poms one at a time into a container with one hand

make a pasta necklace

practice buttoning/ snaps and zippers during dress up

practice tying skills on a spare shoe or a craft project

make pony bead necklaces

Mr. Potato Head

connecting miniature pop beads

use putty/ silly putty

play dough activities. Roll play dough into a snake, pinch the snake

cut play dough into small pieces

legos

popping bubble wrap

tearing construction paper

squeezing sponges

water toys you squeeze in the bath or sink

use clothes pins. squeeze clothes pins to place on a container, to connect two socks or mittens or to connect matching pictures

use hole punchers (mini hole pinch for thumb, big hole punch for fist)

use a turkey baster

place rubber bands onto a dowel or geoboard

create sensory balloon stress balls to squeeze

Adults cut a tennis ball to create a munchy ball mouth (picture above), child squeezes tennis ball to open mouth, feed the ball.

Legos

Mr. Potato head

Perfection

peg board

geoboards

Knex

Lincoln logs

Tinker Toys

Jacks

spinning tops

wind up toys

stacking and building with blocks

lacing cards

stringing beads

wikki stix

Operation

Thumbs Up game

cup stacking

Play Doh