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Ideas for Holiday Presents! Promote pencil grasp Fun activites that strengthen pencil grip:    Games that require the use of tweezers like BED BUGS and OPERATION Thick, short markers or crayons Bingo dabbers Sticker Books Fun Scrapbook Scissors such as zig zag scissors Etch a Sketch  Pop Beads Visual-Perceptual/Motor Development  Fun ways to work on spatial relations, problem solving, visual scanning, as well as encouraging fine motor coordination. Puzzles  Many classrooms have a jigsaw puzzle for all the students to work on and they are very popular. Many skills are practiced with puzzles such as the idea that a part becomes a whole, looking at details, spatial skills and fine motor skills from picking up the pieces and fitting them together Problem solving games like Rush Hour  Connect the dots books Mazes I Spy games like Where's Waldo For Children who Benefit from MovementTrampoline These toys he