Trifecta Activities
Most kids will benefit from a 3 part program involving Shoulder Coordination activities, Dexterity activities, and Visual Perception activities. These combined areas help with fine motor, reading, writing, and other areas.
SHOULDER COORDINATION ACTIVITIES
1. color, draw or write on a vertical surface (i.e. chalk board, tape paper on a wall) 2. push-pull activities such as tug of war, taffy pulls 3. kneading bread dough 4. wall push ups 5. mummy walks 6. shredding by hand ( i.e. paper, boxes cardboard) 7. playground games-monkey bars, swing on swings, teeter totter 8. Yarts, bean bag toss, Shuttlecock, twister, jump rope 9. playing games or reading on stomach 10. wheelbarrow walks 11. pushing heavy objects-chairs, boxes 12. crab walks 13. dribbling a basketball 14. Frisbee 15. stacking chairs onto table 16. tin can stilts |
DEXTERITY ACTIVITIES
1. open/close safety pins 2. spin jacks or play jacks 3. crumple newspaper with one hand 4. cat’s cradle 5. play piano, recorder 6. flick small wads of paper with tips of fingers 7. shuffle cards and deal one at a time, rotate the cards 8. twist rubber band around palm or each finger and try to remove 9. button/unbutton tiny buttons 10. use tweezers to pick up small items 11. spin or flip coin 12. shoot marbles 13. write, trace, dot to dots, mazes 14. use the iPad with a stylus 15. pick up coins, beans, buttons, try to collect in same hand 16. snap, drum fingers 17. macramé’, sew by hand, string art 18. cut with scissors 19. string beads 20. jigsaw puzzles 21. roll clay into small balls using index and thumb only 22. screw together nuts and bolts 23. braid hair or yarn |
VISUAL PERCEPTION ACTIVITIES
1. call attention to geometric shapes in everyday life 2. search and find puzzles 3. dot to dot puzzles 4. separate like items—sort tools, nuts/bolts, buttons 5. 3 dimensional model building 6. build and copy simple designs with blocks, parquetry blocks, beads and pegboards 7. pick and find a letter on cereal boxes 8. matching games: old maid, go fish, Uno concentration 9. drawing, coloring and painting activities—especially paint by numbers 10. mazes dot to dot puzzles 11. jigsaw puzzles 12. crossword puzzles Battleship, Chinese checkers dominoes |