Did you know that fidget toys aren’t just for kids?
Many fidget toys are specifically designed for grown-ups in mind, especially those who struggle with focus/concentration, stress, anxiety, BFRB’s, or those who enjoy keeping their hands busy. Whether you’re dealing with a hectic workday, need a mental break, or want to channel nervous energy, fidget toys are a great self-regulation tool to have on hand.
Below are 25 of our favorite fidget toys designed especially for teens and adults:
1. Abacus Fidget Necklace
This stylish-looking pendant is filled with moveable golden steel beads; it makes a terrific wearable fidget tool for nail biters, skin pickers, hair pullers, and individuals who struggle with anxiety. Push, roll, and/or slide the beads with your fingers for a mesmerizing sensory fidgeting experience.
2. Textured Metallic Tangles
Twist ’em, turn ’em… you won’t be able to put these relaxing, silent sensory fidgets down! Nice for finger strengthening, too as you can take the segments apart and snap them back together.
3. Shashibo Fidgets
Endless, intriguing, screen-free fun! This award-winning, shape-shifting cube twists and turns inside out into over 70 different mesmerizing shapes! This brain bending fidget tool hypnotizes senses with its brilliant colors, kaleidoscopic designs, and a satisfying clicking sound it makes as it “snaps” into place. A wonderful choice for individuals who struggle with OCD, ADD, ADHD, anxiety disorders, trichotillomania, dermatillomania – and for visual sensory seekers who like calming focusing visual sensory input.
4. Showa Noa Fidget
You’ll love this sensational fidget that’s like a mini treadmill for your fingers… discreet, super durable, and a great workout for restless fingers! Showa Noa Fidget features 2 interlocking rings that are connected together with 5 links on each ring; the center link has a rubbery colored band that rolls back and forth like a treadmill! This multisensory fidget tool is a great choice for keeping fidgeters alert and focused, while helping to reduce stress, anxiety, nail biting, hair pulling, and skin or scab picking. Also comes in a jumbo version.
5. Neoprene Stress Gel Fidget Ball
Fabulous one-of-a-kind sensory Gel Fidget Ball that is covered in a silky soft, smooth neoprene skin that provides wonderfully calming, tactile input! Firmer than most of our other tactile fidget balls, this unique stress-busting sensory ball provides a great finger workout! A perfect 2-1/2″ palm size.
6. Infinite Fiddle Fidget Cube
Colorful 2-handed Infinite Fiddle Fidget Cube features 8 cubes that can be flipped, turned, twisted, and folded in all kinds of remarkably fun ways! If you enjoy stimulating brain fidgets like the Rubik’s Cube, Gidget Widget, or our Whatza Fidgets, you’ll love these!
7. Slow Rise Sugar Squishers
Squish, squeeze, & knead these resistive, colorful gel fidget shapes . . . then watch ’em slowly return to their original shapes! A bit firmer than many other gel balls; these squeezy wonders are slightly squishier than our popular Neato Ice Cubes! Slow Rise Sugar Squishers come in random assorted silky smooth shapes – or in a cute mushroom shape that includes an irresistible tactile ‘cap’ covered with 100s of tiny, tuggable rubbery nubbies.
8. Benji Fidget Rings
Addictive new metal fidget rings that are cool to the touch and feature lots of 2-layered spinning fidget rollers you can spin, roll, and fiddle with in fun ways! One of our smallest and most discreet fidget tools, Benji Fidget Rings are ideal for older kids, teens, and adults. Comes in 2 different sizes.
9. Gidget Widget Fidget Cube
Gidget Widget Figet Cube is an addictive 6-sided fidget tool that has 6 (different) fun fidgeting functions to keep minds more focused and fidgeting fingers happily engaged for hours! Users roll, spin, glide, toggle, flip, and click clack their stress away! This popular palm-sized fidget tool is ideal for stress and anxiety relief; the perfect office desk toy when you need to re-focus and re-energize.
10. Springy Coils Fidget™
Super cool little springy, bouncy, squeezy, orb-shaped metal coils that strengthen fingers as you squish, squeeze, and pogo away; providing deep pressure input to your fingers! These neat pincer and tripod grasp-building, pocket-sized sensory fidgets are perfect for anxiety and stress relief, keeping restless fingers busy, and for promoting/building finger grasps.
11. Thinking Putty
Turn on your brain and melt away some stress with this cool sensory fidget putty. Comes in a wide variety of options, from color-changing to scented varieties.
(Pictured: Honey Bee Thinking Putty)
12. Boinks Marble Fidgets
Cool 3-1/2″ boinks with a marble inside that you can slide back ‘n forth! Boinks Marbles Fidgets make a great silent fidget toy for school, the office, or traveling.
13. Sensory Finger Rollers™
These discreet pocket-sized fiddle tools feature a rollable metal ball framed in a chunky plastic ring. Fidgeters love rolling the icy metal balls with their fingertips.
14. Jeliku Amazing Fidget
Unleash your creativity with this extraordinary 3-dimensional fidget that you can bend, fold, and “sculpt” into 100’s of different designs! Create animals, shapes, and functional things like picture easels and cell phone holders…. the sky’s the limit! This one-of-a-kind fidget toy folds down to the size of a credit card and expands to almost 18″!
15. Rubbery Hexaflex Fidget
Relaxing, mindless, endless repetitive fun! Hexaflex Fidget is a one-of-a-kind rubbery fidget tool with a very unique, eraser-like rubbery skin. This silent palm-sized sensory fiddle endlessly folds and turns inside itself! A nice choice for individuals who struggle with OCD, BFRB, anxiety disorders, hair pulling, and/or skin picking disorders.
16. Jo Jo Fidget
This sleek new fiddle tool features 2 finger rings that are covered with tiny barrel-shaped spinners / connected by a twirling link. This very tactile fidget tool is nice for surfing up and down your fingers, spinning, twisting, twirling, rotating, and more.
17. Infinity Rings™ Fidget
These wondrous figure 8 shaped fidgets are loaded with lots of chunky, chingy, interlinking 1″ metal rings. You can twist, twirl, spin, and roll this extraordinary fidget nonstop all day long! Put your Infinity Ring™ in the freezer for a minute and you’ll have one very cool sensory sensation. You’ll love these aluminum sensory fidget tools that make soothing, beautiful “chingy chinking” music as you fiddle with them.
18. Spinning Swingo Fiddle
You own little finger spinning class! SUPER COOL 2-handed fiddle fidget tool with 3 conjoined rings that you can twirl and spin – forwards, backwards, sideways, vertically, upside down… even bike riding style! Twirl 1, 2, or all 3 rings together; there’s oodles of cool ways to spin! An excellent occupational therapy toy for developing motor planning, fine motor, and bilateral coordination skills, too.
19. Neato Ice Cubes
WOW to these ravishing, rubbery, moldable tactile fidget gel cubes that are filled with the thickest, most resistive gel we’ve ever felt! These irresistible one-of-a-kind sensory balls can be squished, squeezed, and molded; but always return to their square shape. Firmer than most of our other gel stress balls / toys, Neato Ice Cubes provide an addicting finger strengthening workout — you won’t want to stop fidgeting with it!
20. Colored Wire Fidget Rings
These awesome sensory fidgets provide wonderful massaging tactile input as you roll them up and down your fingers. A superb silent fidget tool choice for teen and adult fidgeters, those with sensory processing disorders, nail biters, skin pickers, hair pullers, dermatillomania, trichotillomania, tactile sensory seekers, and other sensory differences that result in restless fingers.
21. Poppin Pea Pods
A favorite fidget tool for teens and adults! Neat little keychain-style 3″ brightly colored pea pod that has 3 little peas that pop up when you squeeze it. This discreet silent fidget tool is ideal for classrooms, as an office desk toy, or for travel. It also makes a nice finger strengthening fiddle tool that’s easy to take wherever you go.
22. Keyboard Fidget Clickers
Busy fingers adore these neat handheld fidgets that look, feel, and sound like pushing down keys on a keyboard! Constructed from the same parts mechanical keyboards are made from, these delightfully satisfying finger tools make a “clicking” sound each time the square “keys” are depressed. Keyboard Fidget Clickers make an awesome sensory stim toy and fidget tool for auditory sensory seekers, skin pickers, and teens/adults who need to keep their fingers engaged to focus better!
23. Snazzy Snappers™
Snazzy Snappers™ are a favorite new fidget tool that are nice for helping to relieve stress and anxiety. This sensational finger strength building rubbery fidget square fits perfectly in the palm of your hand. Give it a good squeeze, then release it for a very satisfying “pop!” These fidget snappers are especially great for those who struggle with hair pulling, skin picking, finger nail biting, using too much/too little pressure, and are a terrific sensory tool for providing deep pressure input to hands and fingers.
24. Globby Guy
Let grouchy-face Globby Guy take away some of your stress! This 5′ squishy, squashy, squeezy rubbery dude can be stretched, posed, pinched, squeezed, and flattened into lots of silly fun, stress-busting ways. Globby is an awesome sensory fidget tool for letting go of frustration.
25. Medium Puller Picker Balls™
These 2″ yarn balls have 100’s of long intertwined glittery strands that can be pulled out. Skin pickers love digging their fingers way down deep inside them; hair pullers love pulling the shiny strands out. These exclusive Therapy Shoppe® fidget tools are great for scab and skin pickers / poppers, hair pullers, finger nail biters, dermatillomania, trichotillomania, and others sensory seekers.
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