Straw to Straw

Purpose

Manipulating straws and joint connectors helps in developing the small muscles of the hand. This activity is fun and allows the child to be creative.

Materials

Joint Connectors, Straws

Skills

Bilateral Hand Use, Crossing Midline, Hand Arches/Separation, Intrinsic Muscle Development, Tripod Grasp, Visual-motor

Description

Let the child plan and create different structures and shapes using the straws and the small joint connectors. You may want to cut some of the straws to a shorter length to promote tripod grasp.

To develop visual motor skills, motivate the child to form different shapes and letters.

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Comments

@Darlene - I've added an image showing how a joint connector looks like. These can be purchased at any hardware store and are used to connect joints (straws in our case).

Avital (OTPlan) on Thursday, January 28, 2010

What are small joint connectors?

Darlene on Thursday, January 28, 2010

Where would the answer be to the above questions?

Denise on Monday, September 21, 2009

What are joint connectors?

Debbie on Sunday, September 06, 2009

From where does one obtain "small joint connectors"?

CLB on Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Wonderful, this page it is amazing. Tks for the support

Nati (ARG) on Thursday, August 27, 2009

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