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Games, Toys, & Tool Recommendations

This toy list was created by our Occupational Therapy (OT) and Physical Therapy (PT) team to help support your child’s development through play. Each toy on the list was categorized by the developmental skill area that it works on. Each toy or tool listed was chosen because it naturally builds important skills while still being fun and engaging for kids. These toys are not meant to feel like “work.” Instead, they offer playful opportunities for your child to practice these kinds of skills at home in a fun and engaging way.
 
Remember that all kids are different and all have specific needs, so these recommendations may not work for every child or individual.

RECOMMENDED ATTENTION AND FOCUS TOYS

Toys for Self-Regulation:
  • Fidget Toys
  • Large Stability Ball
  • Peanut Ball
  • Cranium Brain Breaks Game
  • Brain Food Putty
 
Toys for Concentration:
  • Checkers
  • Connect 4
  • Ring Toss
  • Pop and Catch Game
  • Perfection Game
 
Toys to Work on Filtering out Unnecessary Visual Information:
● Spot It
● Maze Puzzle Books
● Hidden Pictures Scratch Art
● Hidden Pictures Books
 

FINE MOTOR SKILLS TOYS:

Toys for pincer grasp:
● Light Bright
● Spike the Hedgehog
● Paint by Sticker
● Pop beads
● Perler fuse beads
● Lacing Toys
 
Toys for Hand Strength:
●LEGO
●Mini Squigz
●Linking Chains
●Play-Doh Sets
 
Fine Motor Games:
●Perfection
●Battleship
●Jenga
●Connect 4
●Trouble
● Operation
●Pictionary
 

TOYS FOR RELUCTANT WRITERS:

Toys for Reluctant Writers:
● Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center
● Crayola See Thru Light Designer
● Crayola Light Designer
● Osmo Monster
● Washable Window Chalk Markers
● Extreme Mazes
● Mad Libs
● Spirograph
● Journals
● Pictionary
● Sketch it
● Boggle/ Boggle Jr.
 
Toys for Letter formation:
● Chuchik Magnetic Drawing Board
● Sand Writing Tray for Letter Formation with Alphabet flashcards
● Erasable Drawing Doodle Screen Board
● Osmo
● Crayola Colored Gel Pens
● My First Crayola Double Doodle Board
● Crayola Glitter Crayons
● Color Changing Magic Pen
 

SENSORY TOOLS AND TOYS:

Toys for Messy Sensory Play:
● Slime
● Kinetic Sand
● Play Foam
● Aqua Sand
● Finger Paint
 
Tools and Toys for Tactile (How Things Feel) Play:
● Sensory Bin and lid with sensory materials: shaving cream, food coloring, scoops, dry beans, colored rice, colored sand
● Water Beads/ Orbeez
● Koosh Balls
● Moon Sand
● Kinetic Sand
● Water Table
● Play Foam
 
Tools and Toys for Visual Sensory Play:
● Portable Light Panel
● Light Table Pattern Blocks
● Imaginarium Letters and Numbers
● Liquid Timer Toy
 
Olfactory (Smell) Tools and Toys:
● Mr. Sketch Markers
● Scented Ball Set
● Scented Putty
● Scented chapstick
● Oil Diffusor
● Scented Paint
 
Auditory (Sound) Tools and Toys:
● Musical Instruments
● Pop Tubes
● Noise minimizing ear muffs
● Whistles
● Sound Puzzles
● Sing along CDs
Vestibular (Movement) Tools and Toys:
● Sit n’ Spin
● Mini Trampoline
● Slides
● Swing
● Stepping Stones and Balance Beams
Proprioceptive (Muscle and Joint Input) Tools and Toys:
● Bean bag chair
● Moon Shoes
● Ball Pit
● Weighted toys (no more than 5% of the child body weight)
● Body Socks
● Putty
Oral Motor (For The Mouth And For Breathing) Tools and Toys:
● Whistles
● Bubbles
● Chewlery
● Crunchy or Sour Snacks
● Straw Blowing Games (Blowing through a straw to move items)
FIDGET TOYS TO HELP WITH ATTENTION AND FOCUS:
  • Pull and Stretch Bounce Ball
  • Desk Buddy
  • Pencil Tops Fidget
  • Squiggle Wiggle Writer
  • Keychain Fidget Toys
 
BILATERAL COORDINATION TOYS:
  • Lacing cards
  • Puzzles
  • Play dough
  • Stickers
  • Peg boards
  • Pick-up sticks
  • Pop Tubes
  • Nuts and bolts building toys
  • Beads and string
  • Buttoning toys
  • LEGO
  • Lincoln Logs
 

TOYS TO HELP WITH PENCIL GRASP:

Toys for Tripod Grasp:
● Beads
● Light Bright
● Lacing Cards
● Peg boards
● Fusion beads
● Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog
 
Toys for Open Thumb Web Space:
● Tweezer/tong games
● Beads
● Rock Em Sock Em Robots
● Wind up toys
 
Toys for Hand Strength:
● Play Dough
● Pop beads
● Tissue paper art kits
● Squeeze toys
● Geoboards
● scoops, eye-dropper for sensory bins
● Clay
 
Toys for Wrist Stability:
● Easel
● Kerplunk
● Montessori boards
 

TOYS FOR SCISSOR SKILLS:

Toys for Precision of Cutting Skills:
● Scissor Activity Workbooks
● Progressive Cutting Worksheets
● Preschool Practice Scissor Skills book
● Melissa & Doug Scissor Skills Activity Pad
 
Fun Scissor Related Items to Make Cutting Fun:
● Zig Zag Cool Cuts scissors or pattern cut scissors
● Loop scissors
● Spring Assist scissors
● My First Scissors
● Construction Paper
● Tissue Paper
● Foam Sheets
● Cardstock
● Printer Paper
● Playdough Scissors and cut playdough
 

SPATIALAWARENESS TOYS:

● Tools and building toys
● Blocks
● LEGO
● Tanagrams
● Puzzles
● Kanoodle Game
● Yoga Cards
● Twister
● Shape Sorter Toys
● Obstacle course toys: hoops, cones, bean bags, tunnels
 

VISION TOYS:

Toys for Visual Perceptual Skills:
● Hidden Pictures
● Wooden Puzzles
● Tumble Trax Magnetic Marble Run
● Spot It
● Rush Hour
 
Toys for Visual Tracking:
● Word Searches
● “I Spy” Books
● Dot-to-dot picture books
● Wind-up cars
● Race tracks
● Pattern blocks
● Marble Run
● Maze toys
● Shuttle Ball Toy (Zoom Ball)
● Toss and Catch Game
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