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April is Occupational Therapy Month!
To celebrate, we’re highlighting fun ways to build essential skills—like fine motor development! This month’s craft is creating beautiful cherry blossoms. As students tear tissue paper, crumple petals, and glue them onto branches, they’re strengthening the small muscles in their hands, improving coordination, and refining finger dexterity—all while expressing creativity. It’s a hands-on reminder of how OT supports growth through play and purposeful activity!
Building Fine Motor Skills in Occupational Therapy
We began our session with a fine motor activity where students picked up colored balls and matched them on a game card using tongs. This exercise helps develop the tripod grasp, which is a mature pencil grasp using the thumb, middle, and index finger, essential for writing.
With support and cues, the student successfully transitioned from an immature fisted grasp to a more mature tripod grasp while tracing the letter L. This progression demonstrates the effectiveness of our fine motor activities in preparing students for writing tasks.
