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The following games and
activities can be offered to your child at home during the summer
vacations. They help develop coordination, strength, proper wrist,
hand and finger positioning and encourage proper writing skills.
They will also help with visual motor integration and coordination.
Have a great summer and
have fun!
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- Any activity
that can be done on an easel, black/white board, paper taped to
the wall or tilt board
- Use very
small pieces of chalk, pencil, etc. Must be held between thumb,
index and ring fingers.
- Remind your
child the proper way to hold a pencil or marker and scissors.
Constantly remind your child to hold these tools correctly until
it feels natural in his/her hand.
- Tracing letters,
numbers, shapes. Start with large and get smaller.
- Make shapes
with stickers.
- Use a paintbrush
with water on a blackboard or easel.
- Use Magna
Doodle
- Ink stamping
activities
- Lite Bright
- Tear newspapers,
crumble it and stuff animals, boxes
- Put clothespins
around a plastic bowl
- Squirt bottles
with water on sidewalks or driveways
- Use large
tweezers to pick up small objects (Cheerios, raisins, small beads
- to be used in counting games)
- Dice games
- Lacing and
sewing activities
- Putting coins
in bank, pebbles in bottles
- Play with
finger puppets with the first 2 fingers in the puppet and the
other 3 curled in the hand
- Playdough,
silly putty, especially rolling and pinching
- Punch holes
with a hole punch
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- Scissors
cutting - upright position, start with heavy paper and downgrade:
index cards to construction paper to paper bags to regular paper
- Squeeze out
wet sponges to fill a pail of water
- Bead stringing
- Straw cutting
and stringing
- Puzzles
- Lego
- Pop Beads
- Tug of war
with a dish towel, rope, etc.
- Make bread,
cake or cookies together
- Spin tops
- Fingers (thumb
and index held in a "circle") zip zippers, snap snaps,
wind up wind-up toys, roll piece of tissue to make pictures
- Pop "plastic
bubbles"
- Tinker toys
- Origami
- Sewing cards
and lacing shoes
- Roll pennies,
nickels, dimes to promote thumb stability
- Coloring
inside the lines of a coloring book
- Mazes -(don'
touch the sides), stencils, dot-to-dot
- Construction
toys (blocks)
- Bike riding
- Gymnastics
- Martial arts
such as Tae Kwan Do
- Swimming
- Musical Instruments
- Twister
- Simon Says
- Balloon and
regular volleyball, baseball, basketball
- Arm wrestle
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