Amazon Deals for Occupational Therapy

• The game Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza is so much fun and a real challenge for building attention, focus, and hand-eye coordination skills.
• Work on visual motor skills and fine motor skills to hold and sort cards.
• Modify the game to grade it easier or harder.

• Gravity Maze is an awesome tool for supporting and developing skills in visual memory, visual tracking, visual scanning, fine motor skills, and executive functioning skills.
• Use the easy cards to grade the game easier or use the challenging cards to make it more difficult.

• Sequence is a great game for developing skills in executive functioning areas: sequencing, planning, prioritization, task completion, etc.
• Also work on visual scanning, memory, visual attention, fine motor skills, gross motor reach, dexterity, and more.

• Yeti in My Spaghetti is a fun fine motor game for all ages. Target fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, grasp and dexterity, precision skills, wrist extension, and more.
• It’s a great executive functioning skills for younger kids, too.

• Spoons is a traditional card game that older students and players will love. This set comes with a convenient carrying case and color coded spoons.
• Target visual motor skills, visual perception, scanning, fine motor skills, executive functioning skills, and more.
• It’s a great executive functioning skills for older kids, too.

• A pickle picker is always in my therapy bag. Use it to build strength and stability in the base of the thumb in open thumb web space tasks
• Push down on the spring loaded button to isolate the thumb IP joint for strength and precision work.
• Sort small items like mini erasers or craft pom poms.

• Colorful and stacking bears for pincer grasp, precision, and fine motor development
• Includes colorful pots for sorting by color, with shapes for visual perception and visual motor skills
• 3 different dice to improve fine motor skills and visual motor skills.
• Includes activity book and mini tweezers, GREAT for hand strength!

• Mini tongs for building hand strength, intrinsic strength, open thumb web space, and arch development.
• Includes 8 colors, GREAT for sorting colorful items like craft pom poms or crumbled up pipe cleaners

• These Magnetic Blocks are great for building hand strength, and pinch strength. Press them together for resistance work.

• Plus work with them on a vertical magnetic surface to build core and shoulder strength.
• Great for visual motor skills.

• These colorful cactus counters offer young learners an engaging way to explore math concepts while honing their fine motor skills with a tripod grasp.
• Pushing the counters into the holes supports hand strength.
• As children sort, count, and create patterns with these fine motor counters, they develop crucial visual motor skills, visual perceptual skills, hand-eye coordination through learning.

• This one is a bit pricier, but for the parent who is looking for an indoor toy that offers a sensory break, heavy work, and multiple motor skill tasks, this climbing toy hits the mark.
• Support skills like balance, coordination, core strength, upper body strength, grasp strength, and more. It’s a brain break toy and sensory diet tool all in one.

• This set is a fine motor treasure trove! Kids can develop visual perceptual skills to match the correct shaped key to the treasure chest.
• Then, use fine motor grasps to manage the key and open the chest.
• Then, manipulate and sort coins and matching colorful items. This toy is a goldmine for visual perception, fine motor, eye-hand coordination, and visual motor integration all in one.

Colleen Beck, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 2000, working in school-based, hand therapy, outpatient peds, EI, and SNF. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Read her story about going from an OT making $3/hour (after paying for kids’ childcare) to a full-time OT resource creator for millions of readers. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.