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FINGER & HAND STRENGTH KIT
The finger and hand strength kit builds and improves strength and coordination, enhancing a child’s fine motor skills for daily living, self care and school based tasks. The playful, creative and purposeful activities will engage your children while also teaching strategies and tips to support skills at school.

Watch and follow our OTs as they guide you through finger exercises, putty challenges, puzzle making, flower design and making your very own balloon popper. 
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Through the activities, you will learn more about the core components of fine motor skills and gain valuable insights into your needs and strategies to support ongoing development.
 

    FINGER & HAND STRENGTH KIT

    $155.19Price

    • Age Range: 3+

      • This kit has been designed for children who may be observed to have weak grip strength for using pencils or cutlery, or have difficulty coordinating the movements of their fingers for self care tasks like buttons/zips or for craft activities like using scissors. 
         

      Four Activities - Approximately 2 hours activity time 

      Putty Challenges - 20 mins 

      • We introduce different hand and finger exercises that improve coordination and awareness of hand movement, and can also be used as short warm ups prior to tasks like handwriting or scissor use. The putty is also introduced to provide some resistance to pinch, squeeze and twist while looking for gems. This treasure hunt game is a fun way to work on something challenging like building up finger and hand endurance, especially for those kids who notice fatigue in their hands after writing. 

      Popstick Puzzle - 20 mins

      • Visual perception is a skill that is very closely connected to finger and hand skills, particularly hand eye coordination and achieving control and accuracy. This puzzle creation activity involves the finger skills of peeling and sticking the stickers to make the puzzle, then recruiting the visual perceptual skills to then build the puzzle. The puzzles can start easy and be graded up to more difficult, depending on your child’s ability. This is a great way for kids to find their ‘just right challenge’, where a task is hard enough for skill building but also achievable. 

      Flower Vase - 30 mins

      • Fine motor skills don’t always have to be completed at a table, since we use them in all aspects of life, from getting dressed, brushing our teeth, playing and exploring the world. In the flower vase activity, your children will use their scissor skills to prepare the vase before adventuring in the backyard or park to collect flowers for their vase. Activities in nature can be very regulating, particularly in collaboration with a trusted and regulated adult. To further support your child with scissor skills, consider ordering the Get School Ready Bundle, which includes more information about Scissor Skill Development. 

      Balloon Popper - 30 mins 

      • Fidgets, poppers and squishy toys are highly popular and also effective to support focus, participation and regulation. When they are created and personalised by the child, they become even more meaningful. The balloon popper activity uses simple craft materials to develop finger skills and coordination, while squeezing the balloon also supports hand and grip strength. 

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