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Toys, games, fidgets and other activities for helping students improve their fine motor skills, bilateral skills and others! These are some of my students favorites as a school-based COTA/L. I hope you find this list useful ☺️
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items That’s toys, fidgets and other items that are great for helping kids improve their bilateral skills, fine motor skills, number and color identification + more! But most importantly they are all fun and are great for all kids!
These are great for pre-cutting skills and for manipulation skills.
Fine Motor Skills & Sensory Toys for Toddlers
My past students love this toy! It is great for color and shape recognition. It helps with bilateral skills and overall enhanced in hand manipulation and fine motor skills.
Build Up Hand Muscles with Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog
This is one of my favorite toys and many of my 2-5 year old students. It’s a push N spin toy that makes popcorn when you push it down. It is very popular with the kiddos :)
Skip Hop Press & Spin Farmstand Corn Toy
This is another great toy for working on a child’s bilateral skills. It also helps with animal identification.
Fine Motor Forest Friends
This toy is a big hit with the kids! It’s great for working on bilateral skills!
Fat Brain Toys SpinAgain Stacking Toy 1+
Many of my students love engaging with this toy. It’s great for bilateral skills and the balls all make noise which the kids love!
RollAgain Sorter
This toy helps with number recognition, fine motor skills and counting! The chocolate chips are raised which makes it easy for the kids to feel them as they count!
Learning Resources Smart Counting Cookies
One of my students favorite toys! It’s great for bilateral skills! They are all textured which helps with sensory integration!
Snap-n-Learn™ Fruit Shapers
Soooo many of my students love this toy! It helps with counting, bilateral skills and animal identification!
Peekaboo Learning Farm
My niece and nephew love these and so do my students! They all do different things and they are very durable for kids who tend to throw things.
Sensory Fidget Tubes, Set of 4
This toy is great for bilateral skills. It can be used with or without the toy wooden knife that it comes with.
Cutting Food - Wooden Play Food
A kids favorite toy! It’s great for bilateral skills, color identification, and counting. It comes with 3 different level stages!
Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Piggy Bank
This is a great toy/activity for children to use to help them develop the fine motor skills needed to open containers and other snack items.
Helping Hands Snack Pals
This toy is great for bilateral skills, counting and color identification and recognition.
Snap-n-Learn™ Counting Cupcakes
This is a great toy/activity for bilateral skills, color matching and identification. It helps with wrist rotation as well
Driddle Color & Shapes Matching Egg Toy
Amazing for fine motor skills and developing a pincer grasp.
Vehicles Sound Puzzle - 8 Pieces
I love this toy and so do many of my students! It’s great for bilateral skills, color identification and exploring various textures.
Learning Resources Ruff's House Tactile Set
This puzzle is great for animal identification and developing/maturing a child’s pincer grasp.
Farm Animals Sound Puzzle - 8 Pieces
This toy is great for teaching bilateral skills as well as using it with older children during breathing exercises to help with regulation
Expanding Ball
These are great for children who are learning their letters. It offers matching lower and uppercase letters. It is great for working on letter recognition and bilateral skills!
Alphabet Learning Locks
My nephews, niece and students all love this ball pit!
Foam Ball Pit for Toddlers, 47 Inch Kids Pool
I promise your kids will love this toy! It’s interactive and easy to store for on the go!
Kids, help Elmo find all of the Missing Letters so we can Spell Words!
This is the best cash register for kids that are learning how count coins and dollar bills.
Cash Registers
I bought this for my niece and she is obsessed with it!
Scoop & Serve Ice Cream Counter
These are great puzzles for younger children as they are 3-D and have pictures to match underneath.
Dinosaurs Chunky Puzzle - 7 Pieces
This toy is adorable and is great for number recognition and bilateral skills! Many of my OT students love this toy!
Sesame Street Cookie's Counting Jar, 12-Pieces
One of my favorite basic shape sorters for young kids. It’s handle makes it easy for on-the-go use!
Fisher-Price Baby's First Blocks Set, Shape-Sorting Toy
This product is great for children learning how to write! It teaches lower and uppercase letters. It also has a convenient storage spot at the top for the pen that is permanently attached to the board.
Apfity Magnetic Alphabet Tracing Board ABC
This activity/toy is great for learning turn taking and works on improving fine motor skills such as a pincer grasp
Yeti in My Spaghetti Board Game - Family Fun
So many of my students loved this toy! It’s great for hand strengthening and fine motor skills!
Play-Doh Care 'n Carry Vet Playset with Toy Dog
This toy/activity is great for counting and color recognition.
Sorting Rings
These are great for kids 3+ up. They are durable and very well made! My nephews LOVE playing with these dinosaurs
Animal Toys, Dinosaur Toys and Farm Animal Toys for Kids
This activity is a great way for children to learn bilateral skills, shape and color recognition.
Smart Snacks® Shape Sorting Cupcakes
Squigz are amazing! They are great for bilateral skills, hand strengthening and building creativity!!
Squigz - Best Bath Toys for Ages 3 to 6
I bought this as a Christmas present for my niece and she loves it! It makes the cutest sounds for when it’s “cooking” each piece of food lol
LeapFrog Yum-2-3 Toaster : Toys & Games
I promise kids will love these interlocking light up blocks! They will enjoy watching their creativity come to life through stagnant or flashing lights!
Light Stax – The Brick Lights Up!
This toy is a great interactive toy for young children who like lights and music.
Learn & Spin Aquarium
These are a staple of any household with children who enjoy building! I use these at work with my students and my nephews love playing with them
Magna-Tiles
This timer is is one of my favorites and my students love it. It’s a visual rainbow timer that counts either up or down in several different settings such as 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, etc. It also comes with a volume control switch
Rainbow Visual Timer
This toy is great for animal identification as well as improving fine motor skills such as bilateral integration
See 'n Say The Farmer Says
This is great for any child who likes Paw Patrol. It is great to take on trips!
PAW Patrol - Skye Water Wow! Travel Activity Pad
These are mess free and are great to bring on the go to keep your kids engaged!
Water WOW!
This toy is super cute. I bought it for my 7 year old niece and she hasn’t stopped playing with it!
Sort, Stock, Select Wooden Vending Machine Play Set
So many of my students enjoy playing with this toy. It is so cute and has various switches to manipulate which help improve fine motor skills.
Skip Hop Baby Musical DJ Set Toy with Lights
This game/activity is a fun way to teach kids how to sort by color and it helps improve their bilateral skills!
Rainbow Sorting Crayons
These toys are interactive and causes children to utilize their bilateral skills and puzzle skills
Vtech Kitchen
I got this for my nephew last Christmas and he still plays with it! He loves organizing all of his pizza toppings!
Top & Bake Pizza Counter - Wooden Play Food
So many of my students love using this puzzle! It helps develop a pincer grasp while assisting with puzzle skills.
The Wheels on the Bus Song Puzzle - 6 Pieces
My nephews love the light up and singing sit N spin, but the original is just as good as helping with core strength and posture
Sit And Spin For Kids
These are great for when kids are making crafts!
Dot Markers
These markers are great for toddlers little hands! They are thick and smaller than a standard marker.
Crayola Pip Squeaks Washable Mini Markers
This activity is great for counting and bilateral skills. My students loved using this toy!
em Up Popcorn Counting Math Game Set 15
Such a cute and fun activity!
Play Sink
Great for toddlers and not too many pieces required to assemble!
Go! Go! Smart Wheels Car Wash Playset
This is great for children who seek deep pressure. Please do not buy for small children as this weighs 4.5lbs. This is typically used during sitting activities for children when engaging in writing or circle time.
Manimo Weighted Lizard Plush - 4.5 Pounds - Weighted Sensory Tool
This toy is great for counting and bilateral skills!
Counting Cars
My students are all obsessed with this activity!
Lakeshore Magnetic Fishing Set
Kids love these food themed pop-it’s!
Pop Its Fidget Toys Pack 4 - Stress Relief
Every kids favorite!
Play Doh Modeling Compound 10-Pack Assorted Colors
My niece and nephews are obsessed with this toy. It’s so creative and well put together!
New Sprouts® Taco Night!
This is a favorite of so many of my students during recess! Always remember to make sure your child wears a helmet!
Kids Roller Coaster Toys
I purchased this for my nephews last Christmas and they both still love it. It projects and reads the story aloud. There are Paw Patrol and Trolls stories you can purchase as well.
Story Dream Machine | Imaginative Play Toy for Kids
This toy is great for fine motor skills, animal recognition and creativity!
Barnyard Friends Build & Spin Set for Toddlers
This is a great a first step clock for teaching kids how to tell time!
Tock the Learning Clock®
Such a cute and fun toy. I highly recommend it as my nephew loves it!
Skip Hop Rock-A-Mole Guitar, Farmstand Toy
A great non-toxic sensory activity that many kids love!
Kinetic Sand for Kids | Non-Toxic Play Sets
This toy is great for color identification, color sorting, bilateral integration and crossing midline!
Max the Fine Motor Moose
These handy scoopers are great for improving fine motor skills. It helps introduce placing fingers into scissor holes and positioning. They are great to use prior to precutting.
Fine Motor Tool: Handy Scoopers for Kids
This cute toy helps children with their bilateral skills as well as counting!
Sort & Seek Polar Animals: Learn Numbers & Colors
This trace and draw projector is great for kids! My 6 year old nephew loves it!
Trace & Draw Projector
This is a great toy/activity for improving fine motor skills, bilateral skills and creativity!
Create & Design Drill Kit
The 26 Alpha-Bots each change into a different letter of the alphabet. Which helps kids boost their letter skills as they play!
Alpha-Bots
This is a great toy to use with water play as the fish actually float!
Catch a Letter Magnetic Learning Game
This game is a great away to assist children in building the muscle control and hand strength needed for writing.
Gumball Grab Pre-Writing Game
These are great fidgets! Kids love to pull them apart, push them back together and connect them to each other
Pop Tubes Sensory Fidget Toys Multi-Color
This game is super cute and fun. It teaches turn taking and helps promote fine motor skills such as utilizing a pincer grasp.
Game Zone Honey Bee Tree Game – Award-Winning Fun
I love using this tent to read to my nephews in. You can add string lights if the kids are older to make it more fun!
Sumbababy Kids Indoor Toddler Teepee Tent
The are so much fun and for adults as well. It works on bilateral skills, crossing midline and fine motor skills. Please use adult supervision when a child is using due to the small pieces!
Picky Pad Skin Picking Silicone Fidget Toy
This is a great game for teaching turn taking as well as working on improving fine motor skills such as pincer grasp to remove the sticks. A lot of my older students love it!
Mattel KerPlunk Kids Game, 2-4 Players
This is a great activity for teaching many skills such as bilateral skills, fine motor and crossing midline. So many of my younger students love engaging with this toy!
My First Marble Run
This is an amazing toy/activity that so many of my older students enjoy engaging with. Not only does it improve fine motor skills, but it allows them to be creative! Please watch as the marbles are small and supervision should be provided if/when nee...
Super-Fun Marble Run - Master Set
These are great for crafting! It’s great for kids because it challenges their bilateral skills and fine motor skills. The designs are cute and they are great to use for making cards etc.
Easy-Punch Design Shapes
This game is so much fun and kids love watching their picture light up! It helps improve skills such as fine motor and bilateral skills. My 6 year old nephew loves his Lite Brite. Adult supervision should be provided due to the small pegs.
Lite Brite Classic Retro Toy - Create Art with Light
These are great for hand strengthening and kids love them. They are super easy to clean with just soap and water if they get fuzzes stuck to them. They’re also great stress balls for adults lol
Schylling NeeDoh Nice Cube Sensory Toy
I personally love Aaron’s Thinking Putty. They have putties that change color with the temperature of your hands. I really like the ones that come with small charms because they are good to use with children when you are trying to improve their pince...
Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty
This toy gumball machine is a huge hit with the kids! It helps with bilateral skills, color and number identification. It is seriously such a cute toy!
Rainbow Gumballs
This toy/activity is one of my 6 year old nephews favorites. He loves that he can create his own designs using the tubes and connectors. It has a low and high speed setting for the fan. It is honestly very cool how the whole toy works. Watching his f...
Fat Brain Toys Original Air Toobz STEM Toy
These magnetic tracks are another hit with my students. They love that they have the ability to create their own designs. The magnetic tracks lie flat on any surface. It also comes with design cards that students can imitate. This activity is appropr...
Engineer-A-Coaster Activity Kit
My 2 year old nephews loves Mrs. Rachel and he loves hearing her voice as he inserts each card. It helps in rice bilateral skills and speech. It’s a cute activity to bring when your kids are going to be in the car or on an airplane.
Ms. Rachel First Words Talking Flash Cards
This is a very fun activity that a lot of my students love. They have to use both of their hands to move and manipulate the barrel to locate the items pictured in the book and shown. It’s very durable, well made and fun.
Find It Game
Great for finger isolation, animal identification and counting!
Poke-a-Dot: Old MacDonald's Farm