OT FUN at Home
Today we’re moving away from our typical therapy putty exercises to strengthen our hands and we’ve moved on to rubber bands!
Before any type of writing task I like to give hands a “warm up”, today’s warm up was wrapping rubber bands around a paper towel roll or a wine cork (things I’m sure most families will have, at least the paper towel roll if not the wine cork). This is a great hand strengthening activity which in turn will support your child’s ability to write!
For the older kiddos (Second Grade and up, I had them using the wine cork since it’s smaller and you have to wrap the rubber band around a few times.
For the younger kiddos (Kindergarteners and First Graders) I used the paper towel roll since it’s larger and most of the rubber bands fit right on.
Either way, we counted out the rubber bands (or in some cases hair ties), I typically asked the child to get as many as their age and then plus one-for good luck. This is another great fine motor and counting activity:).
So go find those rubber bands (or hair ties), paper towel rolls, and wine corks and get wrapping!