Cheek biting, often a manifestation of stress, anxiety, or sensory seeking behavior, can be a challenging habit to manage. While seeking professional guidance is crucial for addressing underlying causes, fidget toys can be beneficial for redirecting behaviors like cheek biting by providing a sensory outlet or distraction behavior.
Below are 21 of our favorite fidget toys for reducing cheek biting:
1. Tactile Crystal Chewy Necklace - This 2-1/2" silicone sensory chew features lots of angles, smooth and bumpy surfaces, and gentle pointy tips. A great choice for sensory seekers (and avoiders), cheek biters, and for those who use oral chewy input to self-regulate.
2. 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!
3. Stretchy Chewy Jewelry Necklaces - These chewable necklaces are a stylish and socially-acceptable, discreet sensory oral motor chewy tool for children, teens, and adults; you can wear this chewelry anywhere! These chew tool necklaces come in your choice of clear, blue, red, or black, and are PVC-, BPA-, lead-, phthalate-, and latex-free.
4. Chewberz Chewy Pencil Toppers - Chewberz are prism-shaped chewy pencil toppers that feature a closed rounded top; a discreet new chewy tool that's great for self-regulation and focusing oral sensory input. These latex-free chewable pencil toppers come in a neutral navy color and fit standard-size pencils and pens.
5. Textured Metallic Tangles - Your favorite Tangle Fidget Toys in shiny bright, shimmering metallic colors and hypnotizing new textures! Twist 'em, turn 'em... you won't be able to put these relaxing new, silent sensory fidgets down! These awesome metallic tangles come in assorted shiny colors and delightful assorted textures.
6. Chewy Sensory Pretzel - Designed for oral and tactile sensory seekers, this bendable, squeezable, solid fidget tool is made of 100% silicone that's safe for gentle chewing and biting. The curvy, looped pretzel shape can be easily strung on a necklace for on-the-go chewing, too.
7. Bumpy Dog Tag Chew Necklace - Very cool Bumpy Dog Tag Chew Necklace on a black safety breakaway cord. They feature tactile sensory bumps on one side and a raised chewy star on the other. Each chewy dog tag necklace has 2 chewable dog tags.
8. Orb Spinner Chewy Fidget - Our innovative Orb Spinner Chewy Fidget is a silky smooth and chunky sphere-shaped chewy tool with a texturey orb in the middle you can spin with your tongue or fingers!
9. Silky Smooth Oval Chewy Necklaces - This stylish piece of chewy jewelry doubles as a discreet sensory fidget you can wear anywhere. Comes in a gorgeous deep rich purple or sky blue color on a silky black breakaway necklace. Silky Smooth Oval Chewy Necklaces are latex-, BPA-, and phthalate-free.
10. Stretchy Chewy Jewelry Bracelets - These chewable chewy bracelets are a stylish, socially-acceptable, discreet sensory oral chewy tool for children, teens, and adults – and are latex-free, PVC-free, BPA-free, lead-free, and phthalate-free. These smart oral motor chewies also make a great chewy fidget, autism chew tool, or a handy piece of chewable jewelry you can wear anywhere!
11. Chewable Tubes Necklaces - Designed exclusively for Therapyshoppe.com, these extra tough chewable tubes necklaces feature a 4-1/4" brightly colored piece of thick, hollow tube on a safety breakaway necklace. A phenomenal self-regulation, oral sensory tool for those who chew on their cheeks, writing tools, hair, fingernails, sleeves, erasers, etc.
12. Thinking Putty - Turn on your brain and melt away some stress with this cool sensory fidget putty. Comes in assorted vibrant colors and handy little pocket-sized tins
13. Chew Stixx Chewy Pencil Toppers - Made of non-toxic, latex-free materials, these toppers are an ideal alternative for sensory seekers who like to chew on their cheeks, clothing, hair or pencils. Set includes one smooth and one knobby topper that fit on any size standard pencil. Also comes in a scented version!
14. Dragon Chewy Necklaces - The perfect chewy tool necklace for those who love fiction, fantasy, and all things dragon! Dragon Chewy Necklaces feature a brightly colored dragon design on the front and a smooth raised tactile pattern surrounded with lots of little sensory bumpies on the back. A great choice for oral sensory seekers and kids, teens, and adults who bite their cheeks, nails, or chew their fingers, hair, or clothing
15. Soft Tip Nuc Brushes - Soft Tip Nuc Brushes are similar to our classic Nuk Massage Brush except they have softer, more gentle and flexible nubby massaging tips. This popular OT oral therapy tool can be used to stimulate, massage, or desensitize the gums, teeth, cheeks, tongue, and palates of children who are picky eaters, orally defensive, hypersensitive to food textures, or are biters.
16. B-Buddy and Bumpy B-Buddy - You'll love these innovative new handheld chewy tools! B-Buddy chews feature a unique, ultra functional B-shaped design that makes it one of the most versatile handheld chewies ever! Chewers can use one or two hands to hold onto the loops while they chew on the 2" stem for oral sensory stimulation; hold the stem and chew on the loops, or hold one loop while an adult holds the other to help guide and encourage motor control and endurance. The bumpy B-Buddy is bathed in 2 different sized bumpy sensory nubs and also features smooth chewing surfaces; its ideal for oral desensitization, oral seekers, and tactile sensory seekers.
17. Softzilla Jr. Tactile Chewable Tube Necklace - This one-of-a-kind XT chewy tube necklace features a 3-1/2", brightly colored 1/2" wide thick hollow tube with 2 very texturey chew zones that features thick corkscrew ridges on the upper half and thin raised sensory bars on the lower half – on a silky soft, black breakaway cord.
18. Chewable Cookie Necklace - Kids adore this very texturey chewable cookie necklace that looks just like an Oreo cookie! Comes on a silky soft, safety breakaway necklace and is latex-, PVC-, BPA-, lead, and phthalate-free.
19. 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. A superb focus sensory tool that keeps fingers happily engaged, minds more focused, while helping to lower anxiety and stress.
20. Brick Chewy Pencil Toppers - Delightfully tactile 2-1/2” brick chewies that fit on the top of your pencil! These innovative focusing tools feature tiny tactile sensory bumps on one side and raised squares on the other. Brick Chewy Pencil Toppers provide an excellent source of oral sensory input, especially for those who chew on their cheeks, pencils, erasers, fingers, and/or clothing.
21. Finley Fox Tactile Chewy Fidget - Finnley Fox Tactile Chewy Fidget is a fun new multi-sensory fiddle tool for chewing, squeezing, rubbing, and tactile sensory play. Touchy feely sensory seekers will LOVE his extra texturey, bumpy bristley tail and putting their fingers inside his tummy. Finnley makes a fun handheld fidget that you can string on a breakway necklace for an easy take-along chewable fidget tool.
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