The ability to form a pinch grip

Activities that requires using a pinch grip:

• play with small pegs and beads; picking up and placing in a small container and using peg boards
• picking up small finger foods such as cereals, pasta, peas, raisins
• threading pasta onto a string or shoelace - pick up pasta with thumb and index finger
• posting peas through narrow necked bottle. Hold bottle with ‘non writing hand’
• clipping pegs around box. Cut off bottom of cereal packet to make box, place weight in bottom to prevent box falling over. Move onto clipping with bulldog clips
• posting coins through slot in box lid
• picking up pebbles or pennies - see how many you can be picked up with one hand and then let go of them one at a time into a container
• games such as Connect 4 and Kerplunk