🎁 Holiday Wish List for Building OT Skills

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Fun, meaningful toy ideas that support your child’s development

These holiday gift ideas are playful, affordable, and secretly therapeutic—perfect for improving fine motor skills, sensory processing, coordination, language, and more!

❄️ Fine Motor Favorites

Strengthen little hands for writing, dressing, and using tools.

  • Paint-by-Sticker Books – Great for finger strength, precision, and matching.

  • Scissor Skills Activity Books – Practice cutting in a fun, safe way.

  • Color-Changing Markers & Fuzzy Coloring Posters – Encourages coloring control and creativity.

  • Dough Tool Set & Play Dough – Amazing for squeezing, rolling, cutting, and strengthening hands.

  • Kinetic Sand Scents – Soothing manipulation + imaginative play.

  • Pluffle Sensory Foam – Lightweight, fluffy sensory material that's great for scooping and pinching.

  • LCD Writing Tablet – Pressure-free drawing and writing practice.

🎄 Visual & Cognitive Skill Builders

Help with attention, tracking, planning, and school readiness.

  • Spot It Connect Matching Game – Quick visual matching and processing speed fun.

  • Drill-and-Build Construction Kit – Problem-solving, coordination, and following patterns.

  • Air Toobz – Cause-and-effect, experimenting, and visual trackin

  • Robo Alive Fish – Perfect for visual tracking and calming water play.

🎅 Pretend Play & Language Boosters

Great for turn-taking, expanding vocabulary, and imaginative play.

  • Pretend Ice Cream Set – Make “orders,” practice social skills, and build sequencing.

  • Toniebox – Screen-free stories and songs to support listening and language.

  • LeapFrog Fridge Phonics – Learn letters, sounds, and early literacy in a playful way.

🎁 Sensory Superstars

Help with calming, focus, regulation, and sensory exploration.

Movement (Vestibular) Gifts

  • Harkla Sensory Swing – Calming, cozy movement input.

  • Spinning Chair – Alerting, fun vestibular play.

  • NEX Playground / Climbing Set – Build strength, balance, and confidence.

Touch (Tactile) Gifts

  • Kinetic Sand Scents

  • Pluffle Sensory Foam

  • Play Dough Tools

  • Water Play with Robo Alive Fish

Calming Visual/Auditory Gifts

  • Rosetta Galaxy Projector – A soothing visual atmosphere for bedtime or quiet time.

  • Toniebox – Gentle storytelling for regulation.

Oral Motor Gifts

  • Buddy Oral Motor Stimulation Kit – Great for sensory seekers and pre-feeding warm-up

🎀 Gross Motor Gifts

Perfect for energy release, whole-body strength, and coordination.

  • NEX Playground Climbing Structure

  • Harkla Sensory Swing

  • Spinning Chair

⭐ Stocking Stuffers (Small + Therapeutic!)

  • Color-changing markers

  • Mini dough tools

  • Sensory foam or mini kinetic sand packs

  • Spot It pocket game

  • LCD writing tablet

  • Air Toobz pieces

  • Fridge phonics letters

🎉 Why These Gifts?

Every toy on this list supports:
✔ Strength
✔ Coordination
✔ Sensory regulation
✔ Language and social skills
✔ Creativity and imagination
✔ Confidence in everyday tasks

Fun + function = the perfect holiday combo!


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