Kids and adults with ADHD often face significant challenges in maintaining focus and engagement, especially in educational settings or at work. Fidget toys can be an effective sensory tool for keeping hands busy and minds alert, promoting self-regulation, reducing stress, and increasing focus and concentration. There are several types of fidget toys, from discreet and handheld to larger and more obvious options!
Below are 23 of our favorite fidget toys hand-selected for ADD and ADHD:
1. Squish and Squeeze Goo Mats - Unique Gel Fidget Mats featuring a twisty turvy path of colorful goo that squishes back & forth as you squeeze each side. These self-contained, sealed fiddles make a great sensory toy that helps promote focus and keep restless fingers quietly engaged.
2. 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 teens and adult fidgeters, ADHD/ADD, sensory processing disorders, nail biters, skin pickers, hair pullers, dermatillomania, trichotillomania, tactile sensory seekers, and other sensory differences that result in restless fingers.
3. Spiky Roly Poly Oodles Fidget Ball - these superbly tactile sensory fidget balls are filled with colorful "gumballs" in a super SPIKY rubbery skin! These refreshingly tactile, touchy-feely tactile fidget tools can help calm stressed minds while keeping restless fingers happily engaged and bodies more relaxed.
4. Animals Hide Inside Thinking Putty - Big ole tin of crystal clear thinking putty featuring 100s of tiny colorful animal face disks hidden inside – see if you can find the 6 animal faces on the checklist! This unique fidget putty makes a helpful study aid, entertaining travel toy, effective office desk focus tool, and is a terrific stress relief sensory tool.
5. 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.
6. 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 for traveling.
7. Fidgeting Foot Bands™ - Fidgeting Foot Bands™ are a continuous loop of 1.5" wide stretchy band you "string" around desk or chair legs to keep fidgeting feet busy! Kids have fun and stay more focused as they push, pull, or kick these stretchy foot fidgets with their feet. These one-piece quiet foot fidgets for your feet are great for classrooms, home, or as an office fidget toy. Also comes in an XT version.
8. 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 put it down!
9. Duomoto Fidget - If you love Shashibo and Karmagami fidgets, you'll be crazy about Duomoto Fidget! This dazzling fiddle sensation is really 2 fidget tools in one for twice the fun! It looks like a cube, but pulls apart into 2 smaller fiddles that can be used independently (or together) to create dozens of gorgeous shapes. Each piece features brilliant kaleidoscopic designs, with magnets that "click" it into place. This mezmerizing eye candy tool is a wonderfully calming focus toy for home, school, or the office; a mindless stress reliever for individuals who have ADHD, anxiety, OCD, trichotillomania, dermatillomania, or other BFRBs.
10. Tactile Zen Strips - Texturey Sensory Zen Strips fidgets are all the rage for kids, teens, and adults! Simply peel off the adhesive backing and stick them to your phone, water bottle, game controller, notebook, under your desk... anywhere! Fidgety fingers and sensory seekers will be soothed and satisfied by swiping, rubbing, or scratching these focus-enhancing tactile fidget tools.
11. Bouncing Putty - Two fistfulls of finger strengthening fun! Extra soft and light, this irresistibly squishy foam therapy putty is unlike any other! Fabulous for fidgeting... you can even roll it into a ball and it bounces! Bouncing Putty is safe, nontoxic, and smells good, too.
12. Crazy Coiler Keychain Fidgets - Restless fingers love these stretchy, loop-shaped fidget coils on a keychain that attach to backpacks, belt loops, or our Twiddle Fiddle™ Weighted Lap Pads! Crazy Coiler Fidgets are premium-quality, no-scent coil fidgets in shimmering, tri-tone colors. A great take-everywhere self-regulation sensory tool.
13. Twin Bubble Poppers - Durable little pocket-sized sensory fidget tool with 2 colorful popping bubbles that feel similar to popping bubble wrap! Twin Bubble Popper fidgets are all the rage with kids, teens, and adults – and make fabulous self regulation tools or toys for hair pullers, skin pickers, sensory seekers, fidgeters, individuals with restless fingers or anxiety disorders ... anyone!
14. Stretchy String - These silky soft, wiggly 12" strands stretch out to 9 feet in length! Tie 'em together and you can stretch 'em up to 18 feet! Perfect as instant fidget bracelets, or tie them to classroom chairs for finger and hand warm-up exercises. You'll find infinite uses for these record-breaking stretchy sensory fidgets!
15. Fiddlelinks Fidgeters - This soothing fidget is way too hard to put down. Developed by hand therapists, this longtime therapeutic favorite features interlocking, rotating links that are excellent for building fine finger dexterity and exercising finger joints. This calming fidget stress toy is especially nice for teens-adults.
16. Mold 'n Squeeze Face Ball - Hypnotizing squishy squeeze ball that holds its shape when you squeeze and mold it! Stretch it out, flatten it like a pancake, then mold it back into a ball. This rubbery, delightfully tactile sensory ball is filled with dense starchy powder that provides hours of heavenly finger strengthening fidgeting fun! Its rubbery smiling face is topped with 100's of wispy rubbery hair strands that are great for tickley hand massages, running your fingers through, or gentle tugging.
17. Poke & Pop Waffle Fidgets™ - If you're a bubble wrap popping addict, you'll ADORE this cool finger skills fidget and fine motor game! This self-contained 1- or 2-player game features dozens of little rubbery bubbles and lots of ways to play. We love it best for ole fashioned finger fidgeting fun! Just press the bubbles down and they make a soft "popping" sound similar to bubble wrap; then flip it over and begin fidgeting again! Poke 'n Pop Waffle Fidgets™ are quieter than bubble wrap, but equally as satisfying!
18. Spiky Sensory Squeezers - Wonderfully tactile, bendable, flexible, squeezable (and very durable) 3" rings that come in 3 different resistances: soft, medium, and hard. A great choice for heavy-duty fidgeting, ring toss, body awareness activities, hand / finger strengthening, and for providing tactile sensory input.
19. Coiling Finger Winders™ - Curvy colorful fiddles featuring 9 perfect-sized independent "finger winders" that fidgeters can silently spin, twirl, coil, and spiral round 'n round for hours on end (as few or as many in the same or in different directions – all at the same time, if desired)! These very unique little palm-sized bilateral fidget tools are ideal for promoting focus and keeping busy fingers engaged.
20. Magnetic Finger Rings - You'll find 101 fun ways to play with our sleek new Magnetic Finger Rings that are all the rage with kids, teens, and adults! This mind-blowing set includes 3 chunky, finger-sized magnetic rings that offer endless fidgeting fun. Spin, twirl and rotate 'em on your fingers – 1, 2, or all 3 at a time.
21. 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.
22. Squishy Slow Rise Treat - Join the slow rise fidget craze with these yummy dessert-theme fidget tools! Slow Rise Treats are made of squishy foam that slowly rises back to its original shape after being squished, squashed, and squeezed. These silent tactile sensory fidgets are wonderful for play kitchens and just keeping busy fingers engaged anywhere, anytime.
23. Mindfulness Finger Mazes - Soothing finger tracing mazes that calm restless bodies and help slow down active minds. This dazzling set includes 3 double-sided finger tracing boards with assorted grooved finger paths; 6 different patterns in all. All very durable and colorful 7"x7" mazes that promote focus, mindfulness, and breathing/breath patterns. Also comes in a miniature version.
Looking for more sensory fidget ideas? Check out the links below:
23 Favorite Stress Reducing Fidget Tools
21 Favorite Tools for Compulsive Skin Pickers (Dermatillomania)