In-hand manipulation is the ability to move objects around in your hand, and there are three components.
- Translation: The ability to move an object from the palm of the hand to the finger tips and back to the palm.
- Shift: The linear movement of an object between the fingers such as moving your fingers up and down the shaft of a pencil.
- Rotation: The movement of an object with the finger around one or more of it’s axis, such as when you spin a pencil around with your fingers.
Activities that work specifically on in-hand manipulation:
scanning manipulatives
In-hand Manipulation Activities
Munchy Ball with Garden Food
Bimanual hand skills with munchy ball
Using Pennies and Coins in Therapy
Prickly Animals for Fine Motor
Fruit Munching Fine Motor Activies
Make a fine motor balance tree
A smaller munchy ball pet
Cute felt piggy bank with button slot and zipper
Bouncy Ball Hand Skills
Big mouth creature for feeding pom poms to
Perler Beads
Felt Christmas Tree
Scissor Cutting Turkey Template
Car Mat for Pre-Writing
Making it Fun With Munchy Ball
Coloring and Cutting Shapes for a Picture
Play Doh Connect Four
Ribbon Christmas Tree
Chopsticks
In hand manipulation skills using broken crayons
Kids love stuffing the stretchy cheese
Citrus Orchard Play Dough with Printable
20 + Small Manipulatives for Fine Motor
Fine Motor Coordination Speed
Fireworks Coloring to Practice Writing Lines
Messy Play and Fine Motor with Munchy Ball
Munchy Ball Motor Game
Bouncy Balls are Great for Therapy
Scatterpillar Scramble: A Fun Game for fine motor skills
Battleship to work on fine motor skills
Balancing Bugs on a Leaf for Fine Motor
cute fine motor toy via Karen at Days of Our OT Lives
Using tiny toys (Zinkies) as fine motor manipulatives
