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Pinch/Grasp/Manipulation

The hand and finger positioning and movements needed to develop appropriate pinch, grasp, and manipulative skills are innately based within these toys.

Caution: Many items in this section are small and brightly colored. Supervision is needed for all young children and clients who may mouth items.

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HI Tec Lite Up Art
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Amazing technology lets you create vivid pictures and designs with light! All you do is stick the small, peg-like LED's into the design boards self healing mat and watch the colors explode! Or use with one of the included picture/pattern sheets for a more structured task. Work on fine motor skills, pinch and finger strengthening, visual perception and creativity with one of the coolest, most motivating and possibly addictive products available today! Comes in 2 sizes, each in a soft protective carry case with tools to assist with the pushing in and taking out of the smallest LEDs along with patterns/designs for photocopying. Ages 8+ Units DO NOT OPERATE ON BATTERIES-(but we're working on it!).

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Sketch Therapy Unit - NOT BATTERY OPERATED (but we're working on it!). $39.95 P1234
Masterpiece Therapy Unit $70.95 P1236 Quantity   
Wood Pegs and Pictures
$19.95
P5612
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
A beautiful crafted 5"" square wooden pegboard with 91 holes. Comes with100 ¾"" painted wooden pegs in 4 colors and 4 pictures to re-create. Small size and attractive design makes it easy to transport and irresistible to children and adults. Try using with one of our tweezers or other tools to challenge hand skills, visual perception or spatial relations. Versatile piece for use with a wide variety of clients.

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Dancing Animals
$1.95
P3902
They're back!

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Puzzi-bitz
Puzzibits are a 6 sided flexible building/art tile with a unique patented interlocking design and many diverse applications. Create a funny 2 dimensional monster or Alien or a 3D dragon with these 150 colorful, highly durable, 1 inch pieces. Once completed, the pieces stay together until taken apart. Follow the patterns included or create your own designs and cute little critters. Hands and fingers get a real workout building these flexible works of art!

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Puzzi-bitz Bugs $12.95 $10.95 On Sale! P5018 Quantity   
Puzzi-bitz Monsters $12.95 $10.95 On Sale! P5015 Quantity   
Mega Mix Bucket O Bits $42.95 P5024 Quantity   
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Magnetic Mosaics for Kids
$24.95
P3360
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
It’s like coloring by number but with 600 colorful, easy to handle magnetic foam cubes instead of pencils and they are simply irresistible! Use the ½ “ square cubes to create your own designs and patterns or use one of the 20 color/number coded templates to create mosaic masterpieces. The large 12x17 inch magnetic board can be placed on included easel in either landscape or portrait orientations so you get great hand and arm positioning. Perfect materials for working on visual perception, decoding,sequencing and hand skills.

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Popcorn Fork
$2.00
P3060
Fun new hand tool was developed for, and works great at, picking up and eating popcorn without getting your hands all buttery. But it also works super at picking up pegs, glitter pom poms, mini erasers, etc. Careful not to squeeze too hard or prongs slip past each other and your “catch” might get away! Fun way to work on grading of movement and hand skills. Try adding a weight source to the hollow shaft to build finger and hand strength.

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Magnetic Wand and Chips
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
You'll find 1000 uses for this strong magnet & small plastic colorful chips.Play: follow a path; chip pick up; move the chip but don't attach it". Also use for sorting, counting and in-hand manipulation tasks. 20 chips included. Additional 50 pack of chips available.

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Magnetic Chips and Wand $4.50 X2503 Quantity   
Magnetic Chips (50) only $2.00 X2502 Quantity   
In-hand Manipulation Kit
$19.95
P6704
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Therapist designed box of finger fun! Includes tasks to work on small muscle control of the fingers. Start by manipulating three small balls around the palm. Next use the unique adjustable butterfly device for placing washers. Third task places chips into hand held container and last uses the pencil-like magnet device to pick-up, retrieve and retain as many washers as possible in one hand. Unusual and motivating devices challenges the hands and encourages hard work from the finger muscles needed for writing.

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What Am I?
$14.95
P3236
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Combine charades with Pictionary ™, add some chunky foam magnetic pieces and you have What Am I? Choose one of over 60 pictures from the included booklet and try to build that picture on the magnetic game board. Correct guesses, earn points. A creative construction game for building hand skill, visualization, motor planning and creativity

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Wok ‘n’ Roll
$21.95
P0560
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Players race to fill their bowls with the most food! Chop stick tongs must be used skillfully to get food pieces from wok. But challenge increases when the switch is flipped and the bowl starts to shake, rattle and roll! A great activity for increasing arousal levels or demonstrating the difference between calm and excited states.

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Mosaic Puzzle with Suction
$21.95
P8083
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Set comes with 490 half inch plastic squares and triangles that fit perfectly into the square holes of the grid. Create your own patterns and pictures or follow the ones provided. There are 6 full size pictures that fit under the grid allowing for simple one to one matching to complete the picture. The 24 pictures in the booklet are smaller and so must be copied by counting and spatially figuring out where to start and when to change colors. Handling and placement of the small, colorful pieces facilitates development of a refined pincher grasp. But for removal everyone loves using the special suction tool provided. Also try using one of our tweezers to help with placement and removal. A terrific product you will reach for again and again!

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Kim’s Kup
$17.95
P6702
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Designed by a therapist, this simple product accomplishes a lot. 6 inch, high clear plastic cup with handle and 2 screw on/off caps. Caps have two different sized holes and a slit on top allowing various items to be pushed/dropped inside. Set includes: 6 spiney critters, 6 spiney balls, 12, 2" long pegs, 12 small 1/4 inch pegs, 12 plastic counters and 12 small beans. All require different grasp patterns and varying amounts of pressure to drop through holes into the container. Great early toy, the handle encourages the use of both hands. Children love the simple cause and effect, the see through container, the feeling of accomplishment and the unique rattling when shaken.

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My Tissue Art
$10.95
P1965
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
What a great idea – keep the best part of a classic classroom art project and get rid of the messy, hard to control part. The artist must still crunch up the small tissue paper squares into balls of color but instead of worrying about too little or too much glue, they now just push them down onto the self stick pattern card. Comes with 800 rainbow colored tissue paper squares and 6 self-stick pictures. A great bilateral fine motor, and finger strengthening activity. And clean-up is now a snap so, “on the go” therapists have a new tool!

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Mini Dice
$3.50
P4804
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
These tiny 1/4” little guys are real dice in mixed colors. So cute and appealing everyone will want to play. You get 24 in a package along with activity ideas. Great for number and color matching, picking up with hand tools or with fingers for in-hand manipulation work. Also develop the arches of the hand as you practice that perfect roll!

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Crazy Clickers
$0.75
P4807
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
1" round face with crazy eys and a large mouth that "clicks" when opened and closed. Can be used as a noise maker or a grabber. Place index and middle finger on protruding eyes and thumb underneath in his dimple to encourage a 3 point pincer grasp and palmar arching. Brightly colored, highly motivating and fun!

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Discomat
$47.95
P0112
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Discomat is one of those super enticing products. One look at all the colorful patterns, grids and plastic discs and they're hooked; adult or child. Players work to duplicate the pattern cards by placing the correct chips in the slots between the two sides of the grid. Also, try making simpler or more complex patterns on one grid that the other player then copies. Both grid and pattern cards are presented verticallly so you get a terrific shoulder and upper extremity workout in addition to the fine motor/manipulative and perceptual challenge. Comes with 300 chips, 12 pattern cards and enough other materials for 4 players. Great for groups, classroom centers or split a set with a friend.

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Bean Counters
$9.95
P6703
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
You receive 200 flat 2 color chips with a unique beanlike shape. White on one side, red on the other. Great for working on inhand manipulation skills and speed. Try putting 3 in your hand and turning them all to the same color, or line up 10 or more in a row and see how fast you can turn them over. When cleaning up, pick up each one with fingertips, no sliding to edge of table allowed.

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Take Along Design & Drill
$29.95
P3522
All kids love playing with tools! Similar to our Drill & Design Activity Center, (P3519) but new compact carry case folds out into a sturdy design board with 60 bolts in 5 new colors, 3 interchangeable bits and a power screwdriver instead of a drill. Activity guide with 10 patterns to follow is also included. Provides hours of fine motor, construction fun for little builders.

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Stretchy Mouse & Cheese
$4.95
P3478
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
These are the cutest, fun-est mice ever! First you squish 'em and push 'em into and through the Swiss cheese holes...and then you stretch 'em and pull 'em out again. Perfect for improving finger mobility and hand and finger strength.

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Deluxe Peg Set
$19.95
P3502
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
The only peg set you'll ever need or want. Soft plastic board and 208 assorted colored pegs in 3 sizes. Unique board joins with storage space to form a handy carry box with handle. Some picture ideas included on box."

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Squiggle Wiggle Worms
$15.95
P2061
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Cute little worms bounce up and down in the big red apple, just waiting to be picked. Pluck one and check the color of his tail. Keep your color, but put the others back. Player with the most worms wins. Helps develop timing and digital grasping patterns. A delightful game, full of giggles and squiggles. 2-4 players. No batteries required.

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Wind-Up Toys
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
A fun assortment of 3 quality wind-up toys, each with attention grabbing actions. Some flip and roll, some popover and some are part of a marching band. All great for encouraging bilateral coordination, fine motor skills and finger strengthening.

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Wind-Up Toys (set of 3) $9.50 P7911 Quantity   
Single Wind-Up Toy - Assorted Styles $3.50 P7915 Quantity   
Mini Clothes Pins
$1.95
P4802
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Small, 1" colored plastic clothes pins-that work! 24 in a package. Ideal for fine pinch & finger strengthening. Place around boxes,on clothes, attached to each other, even use to pick things up.

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Jumbo Sticker Puzzle - Pooh
$3.95
P5537
Each of the 8 puzzle sheets is divided into 15 numbered squares. Players peel off a numbered self stick peice of the puzzle and carefully place it on the corresponding space on the worksheet. Continue doing this until all squares are filled and a colorful scene is revealed. Placement of the 1 inch square peices challenges fine motor skills, attention to detail, ability to remain focused and number matching. Assorted designs; 1 pack only.

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Peg Domino temporarily discontinued
$35.95
W6245
Warning - Choking Hazard.  Not for children under 3 years old.
Classic matching game with a great fine motor twist. Players take turns placing the 28, 1-1/2” bicolored plastic clothespins on the vertical dividers of circular board. First player to match all their clips wins. Finger strengthening has never been this much fun! Also great for working on wrist and forearm positioning, color matching, turn taking, and beginning strategic planning. High quality plastic used in construction.