bimanual Archives - Therapy Fun Zone https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/category/ot/bimanual/ Where Play is FUNctional Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:38:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-tfz-icon-copy-copy-32x32.png bimanual Archives - Therapy Fun Zone https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/category/ot/bimanual/ 32 32 Cute flower craft for earth day https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cute-flower-craft-for-earth-day/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cute-flower-craft-for-earth-day/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:38:54 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22758 This post may contain affiliate links.I love flower crafts, but I have done that so much, and I have done so many rainbow crafts that I was trying to come up with something that I haven’t done before. Most of my kids are working on cutting circles, and a few are working on just snipping....

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cute-flower-craft-for-earth-day/feed/ 0 Cute Button Bugs https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cute-button-bugs/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cute-button-bugs/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:54:29 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22750 This post may contain affiliate links.I love bugs as manipulatives and had to make some cute little bugs to work on buttoning. There are three little bugs that you have to button their heads and wings onto the bodies. I really like dragonflies and bees, so had to make those ones. I made a dragonfly,...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cute-button-bugs/feed/ 0 spiral christmas tree cutting https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/spiral-christmas-tree-cutting/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/spiral-christmas-tree-cutting/#respond Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:31:02 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22738 This post may contain affiliate links.I have some kids that really benefit from cutting spirals because it makes them slow down with their cutting and really pay attention to their cutting. I made these great spirals with greenery so that it will look like a christmas tree when it is cut out. It has a...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/spiral-christmas-tree-cutting/feed/ 0 cutting out bats https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/#respond Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:14:18 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22724 This post may contain affiliate links.A couple of weeks ago, I spontaneously needed to run a preschool group center and had to come up with an activity to have at my table, so I quickly drew a spider that the kids could cut out an glue onto a spider web. I did it with my...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/feed/ 0 Munchy Ball Motivation https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-motivation/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-motivation/#respond Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:04:28 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22701 This post may contain affiliate links.It happened again this week. I was assessing a student who was not interested in engaging with the items I was giving them. Would not even look at the pencil, markers, paper, blocks, pennies with coin slot, or any of my initial activities. The moment I brought out the Munchy...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-motivation/feed/ 0 scanning manipulatives https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/scanning-manipulatives-2/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/scanning-manipulatives-2/#respond Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:27:39 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22676 This post may contain affiliate links.When I am working with a small group of kids, a great way to get them to slow down and listen to follow instructions is to have them scan the manipulatives for a specific one. I will pour out my little bag of manipulatives and make them wait before picking...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/scanning-manipulatives-2/feed/ 0 More ways to use Wikki Stix https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/more-ways-to-use-wikki-stix/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/more-ways-to-use-wikki-stix/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22667 This post may contain affiliate links.Making two dimensional pictures three dimensional is the power and beauty of Wikki Stix. I work with some kids that really struggle with the visual perceptual ability of figuring out where to place lines on the paper, and it helps to use Wikki Stix to physically build those lines. I...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/more-ways-to-use-wikki-stix/feed/ 0 In-hand Manipulation Activities https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/in-hand-manipulation-activities/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/in-hand-manipulation-activities/#respond Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:57:33 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=21892 This post may contain affiliate links.I have found that working on in-hand manipulation is one of the best ways to really improve hand and finger coordination. When working on in-hand manipulation, it is an area that we as Occupational Therapists can show an objective improvement in, which translates well to better use of tools such...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/in-hand-manipulation-activities/feed/ 0 Munchy Ball with Garden Food https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-with-garden-food/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-with-garden-food/#respond Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:54:12 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=21942 This post may contain affiliate links.I have a little bit of a manipulative hoarding problem. I just love a cute manipulative that will motivate kids to work on their hand coordination and strength. I have seen all of these cute little resin garden manipulatives and I put together a few that seem like they would...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-with-garden-food/feed/ 0 Valentines day activities https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/valentines-day-activities/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/valentines-day-activities/#respond Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:32:18 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=21889 This post may contain affiliate links.I like valentines day activities because they lend themselves well to coloring, writing, painting, cutting, and gluing. My favorites are the heart butterflies and the heart bugs, but just drawing hearts and coloring and cutting them are great too. Making flowers out of hearts is a really simple way to...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/valentines-day-activities/feed/ 0 Christmas activities https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/christmas-activities/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/christmas-activities/#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:59:55 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=21720 This post may contain affiliate links.Christmas is rushing up to us, and all of the christmas activities lend themselves so perfectly to all of the therapy stuff. This time of year it is so easy to sit down with a student and pick an activity out of thin air to do. You have christmas trees,...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/christmas-activities/feed/ 0 Button challenge levels and an octopus buttoning activity https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/button-challenge-levels-and-an-octopus-buttoning-activity/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/button-challenge-levels-and-an-octopus-buttoning-activity/#respond Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:26:16 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=19795 This post may contain affiliate links.I love octopuses and think that they are really fascinating animals. Because of all of their many legs, they lend themselves well to being a buttoning activity. I love buttoning as a skill builder because it works on so many skills all rolled into one activity, and some of the...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/button-challenge-levels-and-an-octopus-buttoning-activity/feed/ 0 Bimanual hand skills with munchy ball https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bimanual-hand-skills-with-munchy-ball/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bimanual-hand-skills-with-munchy-ball/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:28:49 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=19748 This post may contain affiliate links.Munchy Ball is the kids I work with and my favorite way to work on using two hands together. It is fun and simple, but can be made more complex by making a game of it. It is also easy to grade by giving help. Check out all of the...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bimanual-hand-skills-with-munchy-ball/feed/ 0 Wrapping and Taping https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/wrapping-and-taping/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/wrapping-and-taping/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:33:30 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=19695 This post may contain affiliate links.Wrapping a package is something that many kids really struggle doing, and often don’t get a chance to practice it because they don’t have the skill to do it so their wrapped packages look messy. When I bring out wrapping paper and a little box (usually empty) the kids get...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/wrapping-and-taping/feed/ 0 Making button letters and names https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/making-button-letters-and-names/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/making-button-letters-and-names/#comments Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:07:00 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=15866 This post may contain affiliate links.I love working on skills while working on skills, so using letters and buttons together is a perfect combination. We can work on fine motor and motor planning skills while talking about letters and the letters of the child’s name. First you make a strip with buttons about 1 1/2...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/making-button-letters-and-names/feed/ 2 Prickly Animals for Fine Motor https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/prickly-animals-for-fine-motor/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/prickly-animals-for-fine-motor/#comments Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:04:55 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=14128 This post may contain affiliate links.I wanted to work on in-hand manipulation along with pushing objects into playdoh to really target those fine motor skills. I made some little prickly animals that I can put playdoh or kinetic sand into in order to make a resistive activity for poking. I made a porcupine, hedgehog, puffer...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/prickly-animals-for-fine-motor/feed/ 2 Fruit Munching Fine Motor Activies https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fruit-munching-fine-motor-activies/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fruit-munching-fine-motor-activies/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2019 02:27:44 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=12273 This post may contain affiliate links.The kids have been having fun feeding Munchy Ball mini fruit, and I have come up with several games for the kids to play in order to work on specific skills. I had made dice that have one of the fruit types on each side of the die so that...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fruit-munching-fine-motor-activies/feed/ 2 Bimanual Task Stencil Tracing on a Board https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bimanual-task-stencil-tracing-on-a-board/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bimanual-task-stencil-tracing-on-a-board/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2019 03:48:54 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=12201 This post may contain affiliate links.Getting both hands to work together can be fun, and if you add a vertical surface, then you are able to really get some good bimanual practice. A great way to work both hands is to trace around a stencil on a vertical chalk board or white board. You have...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bimanual-task-stencil-tracing-on-a-board/feed/ 2 A smaller munchy ball pet https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/a-smaller-munchy-ball-pet/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/a-smaller-munchy-ball-pet/#respond Wed, 26 Dec 2018 17:20:26 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=12186 This post may contain affiliate links.For some little hands, the Munchy Ball is a little too big, and a bit hard to squeeze but it works on so many great skills.  I have searched for smaller balls to use, but have not had any success in finding ones that would work. When working with one...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/a-smaller-munchy-ball-pet/feed/ 0 Easter Egg Writing Lines https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/easter-egg-writing-lines/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/easter-egg-writing-lines/#respond Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:44:10 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=8860 This post may contain affiliate links.Easter is almost here so here is an Easter activity.  It includes practice writing lines, coloring, cutting, and writing.  You can choose a simple grouping of eggs to practice lines on and then color.  It also has a place at the bottom of the picture to write some sentences.  The...

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