Teachers, are you looking for an effective way to enhance your students’ fine motor skills in the classroom? Then look no further than CanDo® TheraPutty! This fun to use putty is an essential tool in helping develop a child’s grip strength and dexterity. The Cando® Theraputty is a hand exerciser that is color coded by level of resistance. It is available in multiple size containers from 2 ounces all the way to 5-pound tubs. TheraPutty is gluten, latex and casein free. Making it the perfect tool to use at school as it contains no harsh ingredients.
There are many benefits to using CanDo® TheraPutty, this includes developing fine motor skills by the students using TheraPutty. It helps promote hand-eye coordination and precision by squeezing it or forming it into shapes. It also will help make learning fun, by keeping kids engaged and wanting to learn. Another benefit is portable and easy to clean up, the user-friendly packaging allows for quick distribution and cleanup, meaning the students can maximize their time using TheraPutty and be able to develop skills.
There are various ways you can use CanDo® TheraPutty in a classroom setting. The first way is a team building challenge, where students can work together to build the longest or tallest chain of one color. This will help the students learn how to work in a group, but also learn how to communicate with others to get their ideas across. A second way is learning the alphabet. Students can form TheraPutty into letters which will aid students learning shapes and letters. A third way to use it to help students learn math and numbers, students can form numbers and basic equations using TheraPutty to learn math and in creative, fun, and engaging ways.
Cando® Theraputty is a valuable tool to help the development of fine motor skills in school settings. By promoting hand strength, and coordinator, Theraputty can be an essential part of our teaching toolkit, by helping empower students to improve their handwriting and hand-eye coordination. Start incorporating TheraPutty in your classroom activities today and see the difference and positive impact it can have in strengthening your students’ fine motor skills.
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Written by Emily Bannerman