10 cool school supplies for fine motor skill development

  • Crayon Rocks- These rock shaped crayons are perfect for helping kids to develop a proper tripod grip, also beneficial for writing. It only allows the tripod grip to be used, reinforcing corrected writing habits. 
  • Easi-Grip Scissors – These uniquely formed, self opening scissors are used to help with gaining a grip, strengthening weak hands or kids who have difficulty using regular scissors. 
  • Pencil Weights– If your child struggles with pressing down on the pencil while writing, these weights are sure to help. This allows your child’s writing to be more noticeable without the effort. It also helps controlling the movement of the pencil so your child isn’t writing messily.
  • Shoe Lace Pencil Case– This pencil case can be beneficial for helping your child with finger strength by zipping the case open and close, tying laces and stringing it through holes. It will also allow your child to zip their own backpacks!
  • Glue stick- These glue sticks allows your child to gain hand strength by pulling the top of independently. This item can also be used for pasting activities.
  • Mini Hole Puncher– This helps your child strengthen their fingers by squeezing the hole puncher making a hole. It also helps your child to form a tripod grasp, allowing them to only hold with their thumb, first and second fingers.
  • Colorful Paper Clips– These clips not only help with color recognition, but they also help with the thenar muscles (muscles of the thumb). This enables the pincer grasp to be strengthened as well making it easier to do tasks such as writing, buttoning with ease and pulling a zipper.
  • Mini Whiteboard – This easy to carry around, elevated board makes writing easier. It gives your child enough space to write and also gives them an upright posture from the elevation of the board. Not only can this be used for writing but also practicing horizontal and vertical lines.
  • Colorful Pom Poms– These fun colorful pom poms helps with color recognition and color matching. You can add a tweezer or mini tongs to increase skills of the tripod grasp, squeezing and releasing the pom pom into the correct color tin. 
  • Letter Formation Sheets and Playdough– These easy to print worksheets help tremendously with identifying letters and also forming them so they make easy for transitioning to write upper and lower case letters.