Theraputty

As you are trying to develop fine motor strength think about ways to make this more exciting. Theraputty comes in a variety of strength levels from soft-firm. This is an excellent way to gradually increase a students fine motor skills. My students didn't really want to play in the Theraputty. So I began to hide their favorite small toys in the putty. The student would then have to pull the putty and use those essential fine motor skills to get to the toy. What is funny is that many times after they finally released the toy from the putty they played with it for a minute and put it right back in again. Things you can wrap in the Theraputty are cars, bouncy balls, toy figures, legos, etc.