Table 1:

Occupational Therapy Tool Kit

Materials	Potential Use
Handwriting Book	Assigned OT homework.
Slate Chalkboard, Chalk, and Sponges	Wet, Dry, Try Handwriting Without Tears method.
Handwriting Without Tears Notebook Paper	Facilitate improvements with letter size and placement.
Finger Spacer	Encourage appropriate spacing between words.
Therapy Putty	Handwriting warm up exercise, hand strengthening activity, and building and finger tracing letters and numbers.
Therapy Band	Handwriting warm up exercise and arm strengthening activity.
Tennis Buddy and Small Manipulatives	In-hand manipulation (when “feeding” tennis buddy), hand strengthening to help tennis buddy “chew” by opening and closing the mouth of the tennis ball/ handwriting warm up exercise.
Wikki Stix	Building and finger tracing letters and numbers.
Playdoh	Building and finger tracing letters and numbers.
“Just Right” Pressure Kit	Practice adjusting the pressure used when writing with a pencil (various materials included foil, carbon paper, paper towels, bubble wrap, and “just right” index card).
Pencil Grip	Encourage proper pencil grasp.
Pencils for Little Hands	Encourage proper pencil grasp for students with small hands.
Animal Tongs & Pompom Balls	Practice using a tripod grasp in an alternative fun manner.
Handwriting Without Tears Stamp and See Screen	Practice building letters and numbers with magnetic lines and curves and trace letters and numbers with magnetic writing tool
Colored Sand	Practice tracing and drawing letters and numbers.