OT FUN at Home
If you’re anything like me, you may have several of these types of bags lying around. For me, I use them when I travel to hold make up or toiletries but in an effort to entertain my 13 month old son, I realized they’re a great fine motor activity because ZIPPERS!
Now, no, my son Max was unable to unzip these bags, but he laughed hilariously at me zipping and unzipping them and put things in them. But if you have a 3 or 4 year old, or even older, you can work on zipping! This is a self help skill necessary for zipping up jackets, or pants, or shirts, or even when playing dress up.
For the younger kiddos, you can put desired items inside like a snack, or a shape to a shape sorter, their sock (for whatever reason my son loves playing with his socks), or anything they may want to retrieve.
For some of the older kiddos, you can always put these in an obstacle course and they have to unzip the bag and bring whatever is inside back to the start.
So find those old bags and work on those fine motor skills!