I shared our ‘construction site’ table here and said we had a couple of activities set up to surprise the kids with in the morning. One of them was a fun construction sensory tub and the other was this matching nuts and bolts activity.
This activity is really really good for fine motor skills and helping to develop the muscles kids need in their hands for proper pencil grip. When I took Noah to occupational therapy last year this is one of the activities his therapist used and it was certainly a favourite! If you’re concerned about the small pieces please make sure to stick around when kiddos are playing with this one :o}
I just picked up some nuts and bolts from the hardware store in various sizes.
It takes quite a bit of concentration especially if they’re younger. Noah had no trouble matching the sizes and matched them all correctly first go but the practice of twisting the bolt onto the nut is still excellent for him at 6 years old. Not to mention he loves this kind of stuff so he was having fun!
Chloe at 3 found the matching and twisting a little challenging but it’s really great practice and she loves it! She puts the completed sets into the digger and it drives off :o}
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Bianca this is great! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! Hope you have fun with it 🙂
My son has been going to OT as well and I am amazed at some of the activities they do and how simple they are to do at home! Thank you for inpsiring me to do some at home, they are often so fun I doubt my son even knows he is ‘learning’! love your inspiration Bianca! kat x
Hi Kat! Thanks so much for popping by!! Yes I was also amazed when we would go to our sessions, they are amazing at what they do aren’t they! Nice to know a few things are easy to replicate at home, our therapist told us that you can never have too much practice like this! xx
great idea
have you seen this? :
it’s meant to promote engineering skills to girls