• Colored popsicle sticks
• Marker
• Clothespins
Use clothespins with numbers written on them to clip it to the popsicle stick. Find the missing number!
Strengthen little fingers with clothespins while learning how to count. Children will practice to count and figure out missing numbers.
Children love to play with Play Doh for good reasons! They are fun to touch, manipulate, spark creativity, and enhance learning. In this activity, your child will learn how to make rays of the sunshine by using Play Doh. As a bonus, we’ve added craft sticks to continue building those fine motor skills!
Using play dough helps children strengthen little fingers. They will also learn to improve finger dexterity by making little snakes. Using the popsicle sticks to create sun rays further helps our children work on their neat pincer.
• Printout of pineapple on card stock paper
• Hole puncher
• Markers
• String
• Tape
Children color a pineapple and add string by lacing to make a pattern on the pineapple.
This is a great eye hand coordination activity as well as motor planning and fine motor skill practice through lacing.
• Printout of Pattern Whiskers PDF cut into cards
• Yellow and orange pipe cleaners cut in half
• Chopsticks
Add pipe cleaner “whiskers” to animal faces
Work on patterns while developing a neat pincer grasp on chopsticks
• Scissors
• Hole puncher
• Jewels
• Chopsticks
Cut each strip of paper and make the matching number of holes using a hole puncher. Use tongs or chopsticks to count out the matching number of jewels.
Children work on a variety of fine motor skills. They practice cutting straight lines and strengthen little hands with a hole puncher. They also use chopsticks to count out the number of jewels. This helps strengthen the neat pincer grasp.
Hole puncher
Pipe cleaners
Lacing is an important foundational skill to learn when working on hand dexterity as well as visual motor planning. Learning to go on top and under to lace can be challenging for children. We start by cueing them where the lace goes and slowly let them get the hang of it.
This activity will help children with the beginning skills of lacing. They can learn the concept of lacing by learning to go from the top when they start but come back from under to create a whisker.
• Jelly Fish PDF on card stock paper
• Hole puncher
• Pipe cleaners
• Pony beads
Children identify the numbers on the tentacles and use their little pincer fingers to bead the correct number of beads on each pipe cleaner
Children practice number recognition as well as counting skills by stringing the matching number of beads on each tentacle of the jelly fish!
• Q-tips
• Tweezers
Pick a card with a number then use tweezers to pick up the amount of bones to place on the x-ray.
Work on counting skills while using tweezers that will improve neat pincer strength.
• Hole Puncher
• Red/yellow string
• Red/Yellow squirt bottles
Children lace hot dogs with string to add mustard or ketchup according to the correct number of holes on the hot dog.
This is a lacing activity that also works on number/counting skills.
• Play doh in white, green, pink and blue
• Pony beads (for candy)
• Small pieces of pipe cleaners (for sprinkles)
• Mini blue pompoms (for blueberries)
• Red pompoms for cherries
Children pretend to be at the ice cream shoppe. They build ice cream with toppings based on what others ask them.
This activity aims at strengthening little fingers with the use of play dough. It also works on following directions, sequencing and motor planning skills.
All activities are designed to be used to supplement treatment facilitated by a parent or trained professional. These resources are not a replacement for therapy and are not intended to treat disorders. They are for educational and exploration purposes only. Consult with a health care professional for treatment for developmental delays/challenges.
Beyond ASD is a non-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness to a new way of experiencing Autism and it begins with awareness because Awareness Shifts the Definition!
