Fish Motor Skills Wall Panel

$ 69.95

Fish Motor Skills Wall Panel

$ 69.95
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  • Delivery About 2 - 3 Weeks

Description

The Fish Motor Skills Wall Panel is an activity panel built around an ocean-themed fish design, with buckles, snaps, and a snap-pocket mounted across the surface. Each fastener type offers a distinct fine motor challenge. The buckles require grip-and-thread coordination, the snaps demand direct finger pressure, and the pocket adds a simple open-and-close sequencing task. The fish design gives all of these elements a narrative context: children are not just practicing fasteners, they are interacting with a colorful ocean character.

Specification Detail
Size 13¾"W x 13¾"H
Activities Belt buckles, snap fasteners, snap-pocket
Theme Ocean fish
Skills targeted Fine motor, hand-eye coordination, grip strength, ADL dressing skills
Loose parts None - all elements permanently mounted
Compatible with Moje Bambino interchangeable panel frame system
Manufacturer Moje Bambino, distributed by Gressco

The fastener focus of this panel makes it a natural complement to the Manipulation Motor Skills Panel, which covers sliding and lacing. Together they cover the full range of common dressing fasteners — snaps, buckles, lacing, and shape threading - across two compact panels that can be used side by side in a sensory wall installation or independently in spaces with limited wall area.

The tactile variety across the fastener types - the smooth belt texture, the click of the snap, the resistance of the buckle - provides genuine sensory input alongside the motor challenge. Children interact with surfaces and mechanisms that have distinct feel properties, which adds a tactile dimension beyond the purely visual and mechanical.

Where These Work Best

Occupational Therapy Clinics

Buckles, snaps, and pockets are among the most commonly targeted dressing fasteners in pediatric OT. The Fish panel provides isolated practice on each type in a format children engage with as a play activity rather than a therapeutic exercise. The ocean theme is broadly appealing to young children, and the fish character gives therapists a natural conversational anchor during sessions focused on dressing independence.

Pediatric Waiting Rooms

The fastener activities hold attention through a full waiting period and reset automatically — there is nothing to put away, nothing to reassemble, and nothing that requires staff attention between patients. The fish design is visually engaging and age-appropriate for the toddler through early elementary range that pediatric waiting rooms typically serve.

Early Childhood Classrooms and Special Education

Dressing independence - including buckling, snapping, and zipping - is a standard ADL goal in Pre-K, kindergarten, and special education programs. The Fish panel provides structured, self-directed practice on two of those fastener types in a wall-mounted format that works during free choice time without adult facilitation. Pair it with the Manipulation Motor Skills Panel and the HABA Closures Panel for a comprehensive fine motor and dressing skills installation.

  • Belt buckles, snap fasteners, and snap-pocket - all permanently mounted
  • Ocean fish theme - tactile variety across fastener materials
  • No loose parts
  • 13¾" square - compact footprint, pairs well with Manipulation Motor Skills Panel
  • Compatible with Moje Bambino interchangeable panel frame system
  • Distributed by Gressco

Delivery About 2 - 3 Weeks

  • This item is made to order and ships factory direct from Wisconsin.
  • Production/Delivery is about 2 - 3 Weeks
  • We will email you the tracking number when your order ships.