• OT Index
• Cutting Activities
• Fine Motor Activities
• Finger Dexterity
• Pincer Grasp
• Play Dough Activities
• Play Time Recipes
• Toy ideas for fine motor development
• Wrist, hands, fingers exercise

OT - Encouraging Pincer Grasp

• Playing with clothes pegs. The pegs which only need to be pushed down are the easiest, then the ‘snap-type’ pegs where the two top pieces have to be pinched together in order to open the peg.
• Playing with pegboards, Lego, or mosaics.
• Tearing paper into pieces for use in a collage.
• Pinching bubble wrap.
• Holding a bead to manoeuvre it along a bead frame.
• Pinching play dough.
• Eating sultanas, peanuts or raisins.
• Peeling off stickers and using them to make a pattern or picture.
• Picking up coins and posting them in a money box.
• Threading beads, macaroni, cotton reels, play dough beads, pieces of straws etc.
• Making pictures by ‘pin-pricking’ along designs.
• Sewing with simple sewing cards or completing lacing cards.
• Picking up marbles and posting them down a helter-skelter.
• Picking up sequins and placing them onto pasted paper to make a picture or pattern.
• Sprinkling coconut onto iced biscuits to decorate.