• Home
  • About Meghan
  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

WOO THERAPY

A community for sharing the FUN & FUNCTION of daily life!

  • Blog
  • Printables
  • LINK ME UP
  • Shop
    • WooTape
    • OT-Approved Gift Guides
  • Show Search
  • 0 items
Hide Search

Best Games for Fine Motor Development

Meghan · November 15 · Leave a Comment

Check out these awesome games for fine motor development to help your child build foundational strength and coordination in a functional way.

Pancake Pile-up

Use of tools such as spatulas functionally improve fine motor development

A sequencing game for kids a young as 3. It can be played sitting or as a relay race, helping children develop skilled use of a spatula while also requiring balance and coordination.

Perfection

Fine motor, visual perception, and time management collide with this fun, race-against-the-clock single person game. It can also be triggering for children with auditory sensitivities so be mindful.

Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel

A spinner dial and themed tongs make this a great game for fine motor development

This fine motor game practices single finger flicking to use the spinner as well as manipulating the tongs to pick up the small acorns. Additionally, children can learn their colors and how to match them, hand-eye coordination, and turn-taking. A great game for preschoolers.

Mancala

The classic fine motor game of judgment, strategy, and patience that requires the in-hand manipulation skill of translation. It even comes in a Kids Edition!

Fruit Avalanche

Use tongs in this game for fine motor development

A fun fruit-themed version involving all the great fine motor, matching, and social skills of the Sneaky Snacky Squirrel game.

Uno

Card games are always an incredible way to build hand strength, palmar arches, and bilateral coordination when shuffling, dealing, and holding the cards. Uno is fun because it adds combines the fundamental concept of matching, is a great start for teaching strategy with the use of Skip, Reverse, Wilds and Draw + cards, plus the executive functioning skill of being mindful to exclaim “UNO” when you only have one card left.

Pixy Cubes

Be creative and let your imagination run wild with Pixy Cubes. Whether your child plays games, creates their own patterns or designs a colorful picture, they will get lots of fine motor and visual perceptual development by rotating and orienting the cubes to achieve the design they want.

Thumbs Up

Thumbs Up is a visual perceptual color sequencing game with a HUGE dexterity challenge. There are also many ways to adapt it to make it easier or harder. Check out these ways my friend SarahBeeOT likes to play.

This game requires finger isolation to improve fine motor coordination

KerPlunk

One of my favorite fine motor games that includes strategy and grading of force. The kids also get a kick out of all the marbles tumbling down with a pull of the wrong stick.

Operation

This fine motor game requires the use of tongs in a surgery-like game to remove certain pieces indicated by different noises. I also like to use this to help a child having difficulties with auditory discrimination. Be sure to look for some of the fun themes like Star Wars/Mandalorian, Toy Story, and Trolls.


For more fun ideas, check out these great blog posts:

Best Games for Handwriting Practice

15 Fun Family Dice Games

The Notorious D.I.E.

fb-share-icon
Tweet

Filed Under: Toys & Games Tagged With: fine motor skills

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

doubletimedocs

Products

  • Aerial perspective of WooTape 4 WooTape 4 $5.49
  • 3 pack of WooTape 4 3-pack of WooTape 4 {Limited Time} $14.99
  • 30 rolls of WooTape 4 included in the Bulk WooTape 4 Bulk $125.00
  • WooTape tape dispenser in 6 colors WooTape Dispenser $7.99

Subscribe to the Woosletter

About Me

Author

Hi there, I'm Meghan. Occupational Therapist. Mom. Read More.

Facebook
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Pinterest
Pinterest
Pin Share
Twitter
Visit Us
Follow Me
Tweet
EMAIL
INSTAGRAM

Search Articles

Featured Articles

Child using fine motor skills to twist, straighten, and manipulate this fidget toy.

Fine Motor Skills and How to Quick Test for Them

March 19 By Meghan Leave a Comment

Child using a crayon with all his fingers

My kid has a funky grasp!

March 11 By Meghan Leave a Comment

A spinner dial and themed tongs make this a great game for fine motor development

Best Games for Fine Motor Development

November 15 By Meghan Leave a Comment

Featured Articles

Child using fine motor skills to twist, straighten, and manipulate this fidget toy.

Fine Motor Skills and How to Quick Test for Them

Child using a crayon with all his fingers

My kid has a funky grasp!

A spinner dial and themed tongs make this a great game for fine motor development

Best Games for Fine Motor Development

Scissor Skills 101

Is My Child Ready for Cutting?

Motor Box WooTherapy Challenge

OT Motor Box Challenge by WooTherapy

Toilet paper rolls, pipe cleaners, and beads for an DIY abacus.

OT Motor Box Challenge by OTPlan

Instagram Feed

wootherapy

Meghan Fox | #WooTape™️
📣All children do not develop equally📣 As mu 📣All children do not develop equally📣

As much as some teachers would like all their children to think and behave at a high, expected level, that will NEVER be reality. So many factors influence development, specifically underlying sensory systems, that each child is trying their best to get certain needs met to optimize their arousal and attention during their school day.

While their attempts at regulation may come off as disruptive, inconsiderate, or annoying 🥴, the child may not know any other ways to access more appropriate, alternative behaviors that stimulate their unique needs.

My advice—>HELP THEM! 💡

Determine what sensory system they might be trying to arouse or calm down. If this is completely out of your wheelhouse, seek the advice from your friendly campus OT (hopefully you know who they are!!) If you can’t track them down...let’s do a Live or IGTV and I can share my ideas to help you!

What sensory quirks do you need help supporting/adapting in your classroom? 👇🏼

#occupationaltherapy #ot #schoolbasedot #pedsot #pediot #pediatricot #wootherapy #sensoryprocessing #selfregulation #adhd #specialed #specialedteacher #specialeducation  #specialeductionteacher #sped #spedteacher #teachergram #teachersofinstagram #classroomhacks
If I had a nickel for every time I heard “Help, If I had a nickel for every time I heard “Help, my kid has a funky grasp”...💰💸😂

But seriously, this is the most common request I get! And when I go in and the teachers are just waiting to hear which pencil grip I’m going to give them I usually get the 😮 face when I tell them to try these 7 strategies first!!

Check them out on the BLOG @wootherapy

#occupationaltherapy #ot #schoolbasedot #pedsot #pediot #pediatricot #wootape #wootherapy #specialed #specialedteacher #specialeducation  #specialeductionteacher #sped #spedteacher #teachergram #teachersofinstagram #classroomhacks #pencilgrasp #finemotorskills
Happy OT Month! Let’s start the month with a HUG Happy OT Month!
Let’s start the month with a HUGE giveaway! No April fools! Here’s how to enter; follow each account, Save and Like the post and share!! 

@otnextdoor
@playtheotway
@hungrycutters
@noteworthyresources
@cait_the_cota
@rightfitot
@ohsewlovelybymm
@greatlakesotees
@wootherapy

Giveaway runs from April 1st-April 8th at 11:59 PM EST, Winner announced Saturday April 10th.

One Lucky winner will receive:

💗Playdough sensory kit including spring themed manipulative from @otnextdoor

💗 Emoji challenge 6 levels with 26 pages from @playtheotway

💗 Magnetic Vehicle Mix-n-Match to work on multiple skills, including bilateral coordination, visual scanning, sequencing and more from @hungrycutters

💗Fully customizable OT Google forms for Documentation, Parent Interviews, Screening Request and much more from @noteworthyresources

💗Spot the difference to sharpen visual perception skills with a huge 42 page bundle from @cait_the_cota

💗Spring themed packet-targets handwriting, fine motor, visual perceptual skills and cognition from @rightfitot

💗OT boho rainbow headband! Super soft and stretchy fabric made for all day wear from @ohsewlovelybymm

💗 An Occupational Therapy themed shirt of your choosing from @greatlakesotees

💗4-pack WooTape MiniMix Bundle from @wootherapy
Counting the days til the Easter bunny arrives wit Counting the days til the Easter bunny arrives with these adorable mini erasers—sorting, counting, and manipulating with bubble tongs was fun & skill packed. PLUS WooTape™️ for a little bit of writing was 🥳

How are you HOPPIN’ into Easter? 🐰🌷

#occupationaltherapy #ot #schoolbasedot #pedsot #pediot #pediatricot #finemotorskills #minierasers #wootape #wootherapy #specialed #specialedteacher #specialeducation  #specialeductionteacher #sped #spedteacher #teachergram #teachersofinstagram #classroomhacks
Follow on Instagram

Footer

Recent Posts

  • Fine Motor Skills and How to Quick Test for Them
  • My kid has a funky grasp!
  • Best Games for Fine Motor Development

Have Any Questions?

Have any questions or inquiries? Contact me here!

Find It Here

© 2021 WOO THERAPY · Design by Steck Insights Web Design Logo