Pincer Grasp
- Pennies in a piggy bank
- Tweezers to move cotton balls between bowls
- Eye droppers to move water between bowls (or painting with colored water)
- Moving toothpicks between bowls or play Pick Up Sticks
- Golf tee games
- Small pieces of food for snack
- Original Colorforms and stickers
- Sand art (spread glue and then add pinches of sand)
- Knob puzzles
In Hand Manipulation
- Small manipulatives – duplos, legos, bristle blocks, lincoln logs, tinker toys, ello, unifix cubes, magnatiles
- Dress me dolls – zippers, buttons, snaps, laces
- Dressing dolls
- Nuts and bolts
- Peg boards
- Tongs to move pompoms between bowls
- Toothpick and marshmellow sculptures or play doh and small thing (sequence, toothpicks, pipecleaners) sculptures
- Marbles
- Rolling dice game
- Jacks
- Play doh with play doh tools and scissors
- Pipe cleaners
- String beads or beads on pipe cleaners
- Weaving paper activities or weaving looms
- Lacing cards
- Mosaics with glue (tissue or construction paper pieces, tiles, pompoms, sequence)
- Paperclips
- Puzzles
- Paint with cars (roll in paint and on paper)
- Light Bright and Operation games
Pencil Grip and Pressure
- Wide range of writing tools – pencils, pens, crayons (pebble crayons, ball crayons, rainbow crayons), thin markers, thick markers, dot art, roller art, paint brushes, Qtip painting, toothbrush painting, water paints, paint things (rocks, leaves, shells)
- Wide range of writing activities – invisible ink books, color wonder, spirograph, dot to dots, maze books, stencils (Lakeshore has good ones), scratch paper
Hand Strength
- Clay and model magic
- Hole punches
- Scissors
- Spray bottles
- Clothes pins on things or to hang things
Parenting by Dr. Rene 