Gift Ideas  You May Consider This List Helpful When You Or a Family Member Is Selecting a Gift for Your Child

Gift Ideas  You may consider this list helpful when you or a family member is selecting a gift for your child.

 The items have been categorized into developmental skill areas that the game, toy, or craft may develop in your child. Promotes the following Skill Areas:  Fine Motor  Motor Planning Coordination  Visual Perception  Imagination  Handwriting  Sensory  Strategy  Eye-Hand  Drawing Coordination

ToolsToGrowOT.com Strategy  Candy Land  Chutes and Ladders Games  Guess Who Drawing  Kerplunk  Pictionary  Memory  Checkers  Cranium Motor Planning  Connect 4  Sketch It  I Can do That!  Battleship  Scribblish! (Cat in the Hat) Eye/Hand By Cranium  Twister Coordination  Red Rover  Jenga  Elefun  Boom Boom Balloon  Pop the Pig  Mousetrap Visual Perceptual Fine Motor  I Spy  Scrabble Coordination  Oreo Shape Matching  Battleship  Operation  Blokus  Lite Brite Handwriting/Literacy  Highlights Hidden Pictures  Ants in the Pants  Boggle/Boggle Jr.  Find It  Don’t Spill the Beans  Scrabble  Hi Go Cherry O  Press Here: The Game  Mr. Potato Head  Rory’s Story Cubes  Spot It  Bed Bugs  Hangman  Kanoodle  Perfection  See & Spell by Melissa & Doug  Make n’ Break  Rush Hour  Kerplunk  And Then …I Wrote a Story  Hungry Hungry Hippo (a story starter notebook)  Curious George Discovery Beach  Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel  I Like to Draw/I Like to Write

Copyright ©2014 Tools to Grow, Inc. All rights reserved. www.toolstogrowot.com Sensory Olfactory Proprioceptive (Smell) (Input to Muscles Auditory (Sound) & Joints)  Scented Markers  Bean Bag Chair  Musical Instruments  Scented Dough  Pop Tubes  Hippity Hop Ball  Noise Minimizing Ear Muffs  Scented Stickers  Moon Shoes  Jack in the Box  Scented chapstick  Tin Animal Noises  Ball Pit  Rainbow Shaker  Whistles  Sound Puzzles  Sing Along CD Player Oral Motor  Crayola Color me a Song (For the Mouth/ Breathing)  Whistles  Bubbles Tactile ( How Things Feel )  Chewelery  Sensory Bin/Table (water/dry (chewable jewelry) Motor Planning/ beans/dry rice) Gross Motor/Balance  Koosh Balls Vestibular  What’s in Ned’s Head?  Play Tunnel (Movement)  Scooter  Moon Sand  Sit n’ Spin Kinetic Sand  Twister   Dizzy Disc Jr.  Finger Paint  Pogo Stick  Mini Trampoline  Foam Bath Soap  Trike/Bicycle  Slides  Sand Box  Jump Rope  Sky Saucer Swing  Water Table  Teeter Popper (balance  Teeter Popper (balance while rocking, while rocking, tilting wobbling  Clay tilting wobbling & spinning) & spinning)  “Feel” Books (books with various  Stepper (balance & coordination while  Stepper (balance & textures) walking) coordination while walking)  Swing set  Slide Copyright ©2014 Tools to Grow, Inc. All rights reserved. www.toolstogrowot.com

Imagination

 Farmyard & Animals  Castle

 Dress up Clothes  Art set  Doll House  Magician Role Play set  Dolls  Doctors Set  Action Figures  Workbench & Tools  Train set  Puppets  Cash Register/Store/Bank  Play Food Sets/Kitchen Set  Picnic basket & food 

Kindergarten & Older  Clay Early Childhood  Melissa & Doug Suspend Family Game  Playdough  Smaller Tongs (tweezers)  Large Tongs (to grasp small objects)  Coloring Books  Wind up Toy  Dot-a-Dot Markers  Marbles  Stickers  Squigz  Washable Paints  Joinks  Design & Drill Activity Center by Educational Insights  Brio Builder set  Learning Resources Super  Klutz String Art Sorting Pie  Legos  Button Art byAlex Toys  K’Nex

Early Childhood  Playdough  Pound a Ball  Stacking Rings Kindergarten & Older  Blocks  Legos and other small building sets  Shape sorters  Velcro Mitt Ball Catching game  Large beads for stringing  Small jewelry beads for stringing  Duplo  Puzzles (12 and greater pieces)  Bristle Blocks  Wiki Sticks  Small Pop Beads  Puzzles (12 or less pieces)  Sequential Drawing Books (ex: Ed Emberly)  Large Pop Beads  Maze Books  Safety Scissors for snipping  Origami  Lacing Cards  Spirograph  Sidewalk Chalk  School age scissors for cutting construction paper  Pop Up Toys  Tinker Toys  Bean Bags to Toss  Tops  Print or Color by Number  Highlights Amazing Mazes-2 Book Set  Lincoln Logs  Marble Runs/Races  Graphics by Krista Wallden http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Krista-Wallden Copyright ©2014 Tools to Grow, Inc. All rights reserved. www.toolstogrowot.com