Fine motor skills form the foundation of writing, self-care, academic readiness, and independence. For children with Autism, ADHD, developmental delays, or weak hand strength, improving these skills early can dramatically boost confidence, focus, and everyday functionality.
Our Fine Motor Skill Kit is designed with Occupational Therapists (OTs) and includes targeted activities for hand strength, hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination, in-hand manipulation, motor planning, sensory-motor development, visual-motor integration, and more.
If you're a parent looking for OT activities you can easily do at home, or a therapist seeking engaging special needs motor tools, this guide explains everything inside the kit — and how each activity helps your child progress.
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You can watch this video to quickly understand how each activity in the Fine Motor Skill Kit works:
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Strong fine motor skills help children:
Children with Autism or ADHD often struggle with:
This kit provides structured, easy-to-follow OT activities that any parent can do at home — just 10–15 minutes a day.
Below is a detailed explanation of every activity included, based fully on the kit manual.
Skills Developed:
Fine motor strength, hand-eye coordination, shape recognition, problem solving, focus & patience, sensory integration.
Gameplay 1 – Puzzle Mode
Children remove the wooden shapes and match them back in the correct cut-outs — building visual discrimination,
grasp development, and precision tasks.
Gameplay 2 – Balancing Challenge
Children stack shapes on the curved moon without toppling — promoting bilateral coordination, finger control,
motor planning, and patience.
Why It Helps Autism & ADHD Children
Skills Developed:
In-hand manipulation, pincer grasp, visual-motor integration, bilateral coordination, problem solving, finger strength.
OT Benefits
Great for children who struggle with attention, sequencing, or grip development.
Skills Developed:
Fine motor strength, pincer grip, hand-eye coordination, colour recognition, sequencing, logic, pre-math skills.
The child picks pieces with the tong and places them on the board to match the pattern cards. This encourages tripod grasp development and controlled finger movements.
OT Benefits
Skills Developed:
Pre-writing skills, bilateral coordination, hand-eye coordination, sequencing, pincer grasp, finger strength, problem solving.
Game 1 – Thread the Trail
The child follows line paths with the thread, building pre-writing strokes like lines, curves, and loops.
Game 2 – Stretch with Bands
The child stretches bands across points to match shapes — building finger strength & visual-motor integration.
OT Advantages
Skills Developed:
Fine motor control, pincer grasp, hand-eye coordination, creativity, cognitive recognition.
Game 1 – Object Recognition
The child identifies fruit/vehicle on the front side, building vocabulary and cognitive skills.
Game 2 – Sticker Decoration
The child peels & sticks foam shapes on the outline, building pincer grasp, precision, and creativity.
Why It Helps
Short, structured tasks (2–3 minutes each) help children learn consistency and build attention gradually without overwhelming them.
Through threading, tong use, stretching bands, puzzles, and locks, the kit strengthens small hand muscles crucial for writing, drawing, and daily tasks like buttoning and feeding.
Balancing, squeezing, pulling, flicking, and sticking offer rich sensory input that can calm and regulate children with sensory processing difficulties.
Many activities require using both hands together, improving bilateral coordination and motor planning — essential for dressing, cutting, and handwriting.
Activities progress from easy → advanced, ensuring success at each level and reducing frustration for autistic or anxious children who need predictable, structured tasks.
Completing tasks builds a strong sense of achievement, which is especially important for children with Autism, ADHD, or developmental delays.
Get the Fine Motor Skill Kit for your child and start simple, daily OT-based activities at home.
The Fine Motor Skill Kit is ideal for:
It brings therapy-quality activities into your home and makes it easy for parents to provide consistent, structured, screen-free practice every day.
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Fine motor development is not just about writing — it impacts independence, learning, daily functioning, and confidence. With the right tools and guided OT activities, every child can improve these skills in a fun, structured, playful way.
This Fine Motor Skill Kit from Exploralearn is designed to make learning easy, joyful, and effective — for both children and parents.