Gross Motor Activities & Toys

Gross Motor Activities & Toys

Strengthening gross motor skills helps kids with balance, coordination and body awareness. Improving fine motor skills helps kids complete activities of daily living and school-related tasks. Scooters, tunnels and ball pits are fun tools that kids with sensory processing disorder or autism love using during playtime at home or at school to support motor planning activities and sensory integration. Kids with low tone enjoy scrambling up climbing walls and bouncing on trampolines during therapy sessions in school or at the clinic. Challenge kids' balance reactions using rocker boards, balance beams and climbing ladders. Kids with postural weakness can build core strength while completing seatwork or homework by using seating solutions such as ball chairs or cushions. Kids with ADHD and fine motor weaknesses fidget away using our colorful fidgets throughout the school day, keeping their fingers busy while strengthening fine motor skills too. Putties and slimes are a therapist favorite for hand strengthening and sensory integration, and kids love stashing them in a backpack as a convenient tool to use during transitions, while waiting in a doctor's office or traveling. Teachers and occupational therapists can provide pencil weights, handwriting gloves and special scissors to help kids with weak fine motor skills complete schoolwork more successfully.

Fun & Function also carries these great products:

Social Skills Games for Kids | Toys for Managing Classrooms | Sensory Regulation Toys | Toys for Kids with Disabilities