Below you will find a list of “Fidgets”, manipulative and other sensory items. These items help children and teens address sensory needs, self-sooth, cope with difficult situations and manage high energy.
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Fidget for Your Digit Finger Massager for Relief Stress and Help Relax
This product could be useful for various different reasons. Some of those reasons being that it helps Ease Stiff Joints, gently massages the fingers and can help student keep busy when they are expected to sit for circle time, which may pose difficult for some students.
Twiddle Fidget Green: Perfect Toy for Restless Hands – Snap & Crunch It
The Twiddle fidget is good for everyone. It can be used in a way to form a shape, snap together, and can be a useful to help people maintain focus during meetings, group discussions, or even when they need a moment to refocus themselves...
Abilitations Hourglass Shaped Fidget Finger Squash It!
Perfect for finger manipulation and fine motor dexterity work. Hold them vertical and them turn them upside down to watch the colors swirl or work the colors back and forth through the narrow chamber for a great finger workout.
Calming Fidgets
Great for relaxation, to maintain focus, concentration, and relaxed bodies.
Giant Fiber Noodles
These colorful, super-soft fiber noodles twist and bend for a soothing sensory experience while keeping hands and creative imaginations busy
Abilitations Integrations Textured Sensory MudBall
Can be used as a fidget, a finger strengthener or for an abundance of communication opportunities describing similarities and differences.Three balls feature three unique textures on the inside and the outside. Each interior is filled with large beads, small beads or sand and each exterior has a bumpy, pointy or smooth textured surface. In every ball, there is a hidden snake for an added surprise to get those fingers working.
Puffer Bracelet Sensory Tactile Fidget Toy ADHD Autism Stress Relief OT
The Puffer bracelet could be perfect for the student that you notice picking at his/her clothing, or skin. This item can be used as an alternative for fidgeting when it is difficult to keep still.
Abilitations Gel E Seat – 10 x 10
The Gel-E-Seat is the ultimate wheelchair or chair cushion for both individuals with special seating needs. Each gel-filled, tiny square provides the ultimate feel in both pressure-relief and wiggle-relief. Aside from its incredible seating properties the Gel E Seat is an ideal weighted pad for the lap, arm, legs or trunk. Weight: 2 lb. – 8 oz. (1.3kg); 10″ x 10″ (25cm x 25cm) square. Abilitations Sold as Single Unit Ideal for those looking for greater comfort and pressure relief while seated. Great for individual that use a wheelchair or require special seating Provides wiggle relief and overall better feeling Designed by experts, perfect for use at home, office or classroom
Chewing Fidgets
Great for children who like having something they can physically chew, which also promotes maintaining focus and concentration, as well as keeping a calm body.
Abilitations Rapper Snappers Corrugated Tube for Auditory, Visual and Tactile Feedback
Rapper Snapper is a fascinating corrugated tube that provides auditory, visual and tactile feedback while strengthening upper extremity musculature. A Rapper Snapper can be stretched to its full length of 30″ (76cm) or crunched back down to 8″ (20cm). It can be twisted and bent into an endless number of shapes and designs connected together to form one long tube or stretched and twirled to create a whistling sound.
Abilitations Integrations Deskerciser – Muscle and Movement for Classroom Seats
Bouncy Bands for Chairs help students move while they work. Children enjoy bouncing their feet and feeling the tension to relieve their anxiety, hyperactivity, frustration, or boredom.Thesupport pipes attach to the Bouncy Band to prevent them from slipping off the chair legs and becoming a nuisance. The support pipes are 4″ long and 1.5″ in diameter. Chairs can still be stacked and moved as normal.
Mini Rebounder Trampoline with Handrail
Useful for gross motor skills and encouraging physical activity to help children regulate their bodies.
Abilitations Dynamic Movement Body Sox
The body socks is designed to for spatial awareness through balance and resistance. Body Sox featuring protective walls, dancing images of rolling rocks, hatching eggs, moving puzzle pieces or birds of flight helps to expand your imagination. Watch children and adults alike begin to understand and explore the three-dimensional space they individually occupy. Experience your body in a new way with this body sox by increasing body awareness, strength and creativity. Body Sox offers comfortable pressure to those with special needs, especially autistic children. Body Sox produces an experience of “I can see you, but you can’t see me” which increases the sense of personal safety, loosens inhibitions and stimulates a spirit of play.
Roylco Busy Body Gross-Motor Action Cards
Motor action cards allow children to develop and practice gross motor movements. Card set is divided into easy, intermediate and challenging levels. Every card is printed with a photographic action pose and on the back, illustrated instructions including warm-ups and routines.
Abilitations Caterpinch – 10 1/2 x 1 ½
An ideal tool for warming up fingers before writing, keeping busy fingers in one place and strengthening intrinsic.
Learning Resources Helping Hands Fine Motor Tool Set
Learning resources set helps students with fine motor skills, pinching, grasping, and cutting movements that may be resourceful in different types of activities.
Finger Fidgets
Finger fidgets can be used to help develop fine motor skills. More importantly, finger fidgets are great for self-regulation and movement when it is needed. They also are a great aid to be used during long periods of time when sitting still is difficult to do. With the use of fidgets our students will be more readily available to focus, pay attention, keep calm bodies, and practice active listening. These times most often are during morning and afternoon circle times. E.g., theraputty, silly putty, playdough.
Noise Muting Headphones
These headphones are great for ensuring that students are able to keep their focus. For those easily distracted and those who are not so much these headphones and help students keep focus during certain quiet times during the day like reading and homework time.
Theraputty
Exercise putty is used for physical therapy and strengthening hand grasp. Scented Theraputty hand exercise material makes hand therapy more pleasant for youngsters.
Sit Disks
Useful for balance & posture.
The Donut Ball
Useful for balancing exercises, as fun active seating, as well as developing balance and core strength.
Binok Fidget
Containing round metal balls inside a plastic sleeve these fidgets are good for using ones fingers to glide the balls from side to side. The durable sleeve the balls are in allow for them to be stretched and felt for its texture.
Tangle Jr. Textured Tangle Jr
Textured is a bumpy and groovy manipulative, providing tactile sensory stimulation. Fun to touch and explore with your fingers. Colors may vary. No color choice
Citation:
Wood, Chip. Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14. Turners Falls, MA: Northeast Foundation for Children, 2007. Print.