🎁 Holiday Wish List for Building OT Skills
Click this AMAZON LINKFun, 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!