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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 help children to use up some energy and build strength and endurance
  • Bikes
  • Scooter board
  • Balance board
  • Jump rope
  • Games that encourage movement and memory like Twister
  • Interactive video games like the Wii
  • Hula hoop

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