Playdough
Play with playdough – squeeze, roll, pinch and knead…
(See Play Dough Recipe)

Clothes Pins
Using two colors of clothespins, ask the child to make a pattern around a paper plate.

Sign Language
Teach the child to form the ABC’s in sign language.  Learn to fingerspell words. See free instructional ASL video clips, L-O-V-E Spells Love and M-O-M Spells Mom

Provide Many Activities that Involve Fingers, Hands and Arms

• Color (inside the lines) with crayons. 
• Use pop beads and unifix cubes. 
• Do finger plays (Where is Thumpkin, Five Little Monkeys). 
• Fingerpaint and draw. 
• Use short chalk pieces on the blackboard. 
• Cut paper with scissors. 
• Play the piano. 
• Use puzzles with pegs. 
• Engage the child in dancing, handjiving, crawling: develop bilateral integration.

Create a Pattern with Tweezers and Beads
Give each child a round, suctioned soap holder and tweezers.  Have a basket of different colors of plastic beads.  The children can select beads with their tweezers and place them in the individual suction cups to create a pattern.  This is a great center activity for 2 to 4 children seated at a table.