EYE HAND COORDINATION ACTIVITIES FOR GRASP DEVELOPMENT

TRACE COLOR

CRAZY PENCILS
Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR
 Printable Eye Hand
Coordination Activities
for Fine Motor Skills
Development!

Trace or color with a

TRACE pencil! Training handouts
included. Works on grasp
development. Created by
an occupational
therapist.

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Fine motor activities for pencil control
and eye hand coordination. Once
students can do these files, they are
ready for Pencil Power or Coloring
Power activities on Jan’s TPT store:

Jan McCleskey MA OTR The Fine

Motor Store
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• Fine Motor Products:

– Scissors skills, Tongs Skills, Coloring Activities, Pencil Grasp Development Activities, Preschool and K Centers, Fine
Motor Activities for Older Students

• Handwriting Products:
– First Strokes Multi-sensory Handwriting Programs – Individual or Building Licenses
• First Strokes Preschool Handwriting Program
• First Strokes Multi-sensory Handwriting Program (Kindergarten)
• First Strokes Advance Print Program (1st Grade)
• First Strokes Print Legibility Program for 2nd grade and above
• First Strokes Print Legibility Program for Teens/Adults
• First Strokes Cursive Program
• First Strokes Keyboarding Program

• Differentiated Writing Activities:

– Picture/Word Sentence Activities

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 Products by Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR
• Designed by Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR - author of First Strokes Products and workshops!
• Perfect for center time. Wonderful for early childhood or preschool classrooms. Awesome for Kindergarten. Get those little
hands prepared and work on pencil skills in very simplistic, easy to trace activities! Thick borders will help students follow a
line, and then to stay on a path. Designed by an occupational therapist to empower teachers and engineer the classroom for
fine motor skills! Follow Jan McCleskey for more fine motor classroom activities!
• By downloading this file from The Fine Motor Store, you are given permission to make photocopies for your use in your
classroom or therapy with your students from year to year. However, this file may not be transferred from person to person.
If another co-worker would like a copy of this file or to use the printable pages, they would need to download their own copy
from The Fine Motor Store. The owner of the file, may make photocopies to be used with students, or shared with parents
for some extra home practice. The digital file may not be shared.
• You are welcome to copy these pages for your classroom, therapy or home use – including making printables for parents.
Please do not share the files – each teacher or therapist in a facility would need to purchase their own files form The Fine
Motor Store. Follow Jan McCleskey on Teachers Pay Teachers for more fine motor activities – all designed to empower
teachers and engineer the classroom for fine motor skills development. Products are either developmental in nature for fine
motor development, or follow core curriculum themes – with multisensory, adaptable activities.
• You can find more products (hard copies of handwriting products) on Jan’s website at www.TheHandwritingClinic.com). Jan
does approximately 30 workshops per year nationwide, on fine motor and handwriting skills. Your facility can sponsor one
of these hands-on, multi-sensory workshops. Information is on The Handwriting Clinic website. Jan was a therapist in the
schools for 19 years, and currently runs The Handwriting Clinic in Richardson, Texas – specializing in group classes, tutoring
and therapy for fine motor and handwriting skills.
• Thank you for purchasing this kit! Follow Jan McCleskey on The Fine Motor Store for more exciting fine motor activities –
most designed to either be a developmental progression of skills, or designed around core curriculum. If you follow The
Fine Motor Store – you will get notice of FREEBIES! • ENJO Y

Enjoy!
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Tip Grip Training Sheet:
Cut The Pencil Grip cut in half. Throw away the triangular portion, and place the other half on the pencil, with the round side
facing towards the tip of the pencil. Position the grip 1 ½ inches from the tip of the pencil. Put a rubber band on the pencil,
under the grip, approximately 1 inch from the tip of the pencil. Leave a ¼ inch space between the grip, and the rubber band. It is
important that the fingers be placed ON the rubber band, not the grip. This encourages thumb flexion at the IP joint (last joint of
the thumb). A video of how to adapt the The Pencil Grip is available at www.TheHandwritingClinic.com - look for the TIP Grip
Protocol video.

MCP
Joint

Round part of the “TIP” grip is pointing

down.

Student uses a tripod grasp to hold

Rubber band is one inch from tip, and
the rubber band. Thumb IP joint is in
grip is ¼ inch above rubber band.
flexion (bent, not straight).

¼ inch IP Joint

Full credit is given to The Pencil Grip company for sale and name of this grip. When describing the therapeutic procedure of adapting The Pencil Grip to
encourage increased thumb flexion of the last joint of the thumb (thumb IP joint), The Handwriting Clinic/Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR uses the term “TIP grip
protocol” for “thumb interphalangeal grip protocol”. A person cannot buy a “TIP Grip” – they can only purchase The Pencil Grip and adapt to follow a
protocol developed by The Handwriting Clinic to promote thumb flexion.
Tip Grip Training Sheet for Students:
Tip grip video online at www.TheHandwritingClinic.com

Hold up your “go” fingers.

1

Left Hand Right Hand

Put your “go” fingers on the rubber band. Your thumb should be “smiling”..

Put your “stop fingers in the palm of your hand.

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You do not have to use the TIP grip but if you would like to find out how the TIP grip can facilitate a dynamic
grasp please look at the Pencil Warm-ups video in the Fine Motor Store, or view the featured freebie
“Developing a Fine Motor Program for Classrooms or Therapy. The TIP grip pattern uses The Pencil Grip cut
in ½, flipped upside down, and then the student holds under the grip. The TIP grip flexes the thumb, which
encourages a dynamic grasp. Full credit is given to The Pencil Grip company for The Pencil Grip. The TIP grip
just describes the grasp pattern that the student uses when flexing the Thumb InterPhalangeal joint.
Placement of ½ a foam pencil grip or rubber band underneath the grip shows the student where to hold with
a tripod grasp.
 Pencil Labs
Preschool/Kindergarten Objectives

Fine Motor:
- Develop separation of the two sides of the hand to have good stability with
the 4th/5th fingers (ulnar stabilization) and manipulation with the thumb, index
and 3rd fingers (radial manipulation) using a pencil.
- Improve eye hand coordination with a pencil.

Academic:
- Trace along a path
- Control a pencil

Directions:
- Print out sheets from this file, and cut in ¼ sections. Place in center time labs with
markers or pencils.

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Copyright 2013 Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR Teachers Pay Teachers / The Handwriting Clinic™ - Plano, Tx
Copyright 2019: Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR The Fine Motor Store on Teachers Pay Teachers
Copyright 2019: Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR The Fine Motor Store on Teachers Pay Teachers
Copyright 2019: Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR The Fine Motor Store on Teachers Pay Teachers
Copyright 2019: Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR The Fine Motor Store on Teachers Pay Teachers