Suggestions from Occupational Therapists

Warm-Ups

• Start your Fine Motor time with some warm-up activities

• Playdough (rolling, squeezing pinching)

• Putty

• Using tweezers to pick up small objects

Fine Motor

• Opening and closing twist top containers, ziplock bags

• Wind up toys

• Finding small items hidden in putty

• Snap tubes

• Jewelry making (Rainbow loom)

• Placing beads or cheerios on pipe cleaners held in place with playdough

• Cooking activities with adult supervision, i.e measuring, pouring, stirring, kneading dough etc.

• Games with small pieces to manipulate, i.e. travel size Connect 4, Battleship, Operation, etc.

• Perler beads

• Ripping tape to put together a cardboard box fort

Keyboarding

• Grades 3-5 Keyboarding without Tears

Visual-Motor

• Step-by-Step drawing activities (follow steps on Art for Kids Hub channel on Youtube)

• Draw a person

• Simple art projects (color, cut and glue)

• Tic-tac-toe

• Hangman

• Puzzles (insert vs. interlocking)

• Mazes

• Dot-to-dots

• Circling or coloring in hidden objects found in busy pictures

Sensory

• Self-regulation activities (zone check, deep breathes, six side of breathing, hand dots)

• Outside activities (swings, climbing structures, tires swings, running games, bike riding)

• Indoor activities (putty, snap tubes, playdough, bean bin, rice or drie pasta bin)

• cooking/baking with adult supervision; i.e. stirring, cookie cutters, kneading dough

Cutting

• Cutting strips of paper

• Cutting of simple shapes

• Cutting scraps of paper

• Cutting tape

• Cutting playdough worms

Writing

• Practice writing individual letters (letters in groups F,E; D,P,R,N,M; c, o, a, d, etc.

• Practice Writing numbers (send home or provide link for Fundations Paper)

• Tracing different kinds of lines (vertical, horizontal, circles, diagonal)

• Journal writing

• Lists, thank you notes

• Salt tray

Online Prewriting and Writing Apps