Rainbow Droppers: A Fine Motor Activity

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Written By Ashley Thurn

All this rain in Miami has really been getting me down guys! The house looks like a tornado went straight through it without any indoor activities.  We busted out the food dye and droppers yesterday and it was a hit with my 3 year old and kept him very busy while I attempted to make dinner.  My daughter who is 16 months doesn’t really have the skills for the dropper so I ended up just giving her a small paintbrush. Here's what skills you're building:

🌈Increasing strength for tripod grasp

🌈Fine motor control

🌈Graded pressure control (so they don't end up smashing all things delicate)

🌈Visual scanning

🌈Color discrimination

🌈Creativity

All you need is:

  • Food dye

  • Ice trays

  • Napkins

  • Dropper

Ashley Thurn

Ashley Is a pediatric Occupational Therapist based in Miami Florida and is more importantly a wife and a mother of two amazing kids.  Ashley has a Master's degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Florida and specializes in normal and delayed childhood development, fine motor skills, handwriting, picky eating/food aversions, childhood nutrition, sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders.  

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