• Encourage the child to pick up small objects (toys, sweets etc.) with their thumb and first finger rather than her whole hand, or thumb and middle finger.

• Encourage the child to form these fingers into a ‘beak’ and pretend they
are a bird picking up seed to encourage and promote the idea of tucking
her other fingers away.

• Clothes pegs opened with the thumb and index finger help to strengthen
pincer grip e.g. pegging out paintings to dry.

• Making play dough into small shapes, pinching a play dough sausage with
thumb and first finger and flattening play dough balls into pancakes.

• Pick small items e.g. buttons beads out of play dough with the thumb and index finger.

• Pop popping plastic with index finger and thumb.

• While doing pincer grip activities place a small object (e.g. pencil grip /
piece of play dough/ a rubber) in the child’s palm to be held in place by the middle, index and little finger. This will help with pincer isolation i.e. only using thumb and first finger.