People who have trichotillomania often report that keeping their fingers busy helps to curb some of their hair-pulling habits.
Fidget toys are a great tool to have on hand for reducing anxiety, decreasing stress, and helping with sensory overload, and can be beneficial for managing body-focused repetitive behaviors or hair pulling urges!
Here are 21 of our favorite fidgets to help reduce hair-pulling:
1. Twirl & Soothe Fidget for Hair Pullers
Made of synthetic hair that looks and feels just like real hair, you’ll love this unique new sensory fidget tool for hair pullers and twirlers! Wind it around or weave it in between your fingers for a soothing sensory experience.
2. Crinkly Puller Picker Fidget Balls™
Crinkly Puller-Picker Balls™ are sensationally soft and fuzzy sensory balls with tufts of crinkly foil that make a wonderfully satisfying fidget for individuals who have BFRBs. Hair pullers especially love tugging on (and sometimes completely pulling out) the furry fluff on these uncommon stress balls! These pocket-sized fiddles can be soooo helpful for replacing hair pulling urges by providing a similar tugging sensation.
3. Bendeez
Fabulous tactile bendy fidget that you can twist and turn into infinite shapes! A great stress-relieving silent fidget tool that you can take along anywhere.
4. Yippee Tugger Fidget™
Wonderfully textured, rubbery “finger cage” fidget with six colorful 10″ bendy, twisty fiddle strands that fidgeters can pull, twist and tug through 2 fiddle holes in the cage! Each of the delightfully touchy-feely rubbery sensory strands features its own mesmerizing texture and different resistance. All have finger loops or textured balls on the ends; some are quiet but most make their own unique sound as they are manipulated.
5. Squishy Tactile Flickers
Squishy Tactile Flickers are addictive little 1-1/2” spiky tactile squishies on a suction cup that stick to laptops, filing cabinets, many tables, and lots more. Simply stick it down to the desired surface, then flick, massage, run your fingers across their tickley tentacles, and squish away. A perfect mindless tactile fidget tool for offices, classrooms, and homework stations.
6. Medium Puller Picker Balls
Medium Puller Picker Balls™ features a satisfying texture that’s a little bit tickley and a little bit scratchy. These 2″ yarn balls have hundreds of long intertwined glittery strands that can be pulled out – hair pullers especially love pulling the shiny strands out!
7. On The Go Sensory Tools for Hair Pullers™
Our On the Go Sensory Tools Kit™ for Hair Pullers features a thoughtfully curated collection of innovative, portable fidget tools—specially selected by expert occupational therapists and individuals who live with trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder). Designed to help reduce the urge to pull and provide calming tactile input anytime, anywhere.
8. Tickley Tactile Ball
Tickley Tactile Balls are an awesome fidget featuring 100’s of wispy, rubbery strands that hair pullers and fidgeting fingers adore pulling… plus a small stretchy loop so you can string it on a breakaway necklace, wear it like a ring, or hook it onto your backpack!
P.S. This ball also comes in a jumbo size!
9. Puller Picker Tug It Fidget™
Stretch it, pull, and twist it… then tug the little rubbery spikes right out! These 2″ rubbery fidgets feature dozens of jiggly soft and spiky tentacles you can gently stretch and pull (and pick them right off if desired)! These cool little fiddles provide that “tugging” sensation many hair pullers seek.
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. An ideal calming sensory tool for hair pullers, skin pickers, those with anxiety, or people who just like to fidget at school, the office, or on the go! Tactile Zen Strips come in 4-packs or 40-packs, in your choice of 2 irresistible fidgeting textures: a medium grade pebbly / bumpy texture, or an ‘extra’ textured grade with more exaggerated sensory bumps.
11. Squiggle Sensory Bands
Dazzling, stretchy rings bursting with 100’s of soft sensory spikes that mesmerize hair-pulling, tactile-seeking fingers! Hair pullers especially enjoy the tugging sensation.
12. Colored Wire Fidget Rings
These subtle sensory fidgets provide wonderful massaging tactile input as you roll them up and down your fingers.
13. 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. Springy Coil Fidgets™ are a great choice for children, teens, and adults who struggle with BFRBs (like hair pulling, skin picking and popping, OCD, anxiety disorders, and other challenges like tics, ADHD, and nervousness
14. Never-Ending Unwinding Fidget Wire
Gently pull the ends of this intriguing fidget wire and watch it unwind forever… it never ends! This visually intriguing sensory tool is a truly magical finger tool. Hair pullers, finger nail biters and others who like visually captivating and/or repetitive fidgeting will fall hard for this hypnotizing one-of-a-kind fidget!
15. Ultimate Spaghetti Ball
Our Ultimate Spaghetti Fidget features oodles and oodles of flowing, feathery soft strands of angel hair noodles that hair pullers enjoy tugging on for a similar “pulling” sensation.
16. Squish & 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.
17. Soft & Spiky Sensory Shapes
Magnificent is the only way to describe these heavenly shapes that are delightfully spiky and amazingly soft on both sides. Tactile lovers will spend hours wiggling, jiggling, brushing, bending, scratching, massaging, and running their fingers through these sensational sensory fidgets!
18. Textured Stretchy String 3-pack
Brightly colored stretchy squishy squeezy 12” sensory strands that stretch up to 6 feet! This money-saving set includes 3 silky soft, textury stretchy strings – includes: bumpy, ridged, and smooth! Twist, tug, twirl, roll, tie, coil, create little stretchy creatures, wear ’em as stretchy fidget bracelets, use ’em for finger exercises or handwriting warm-ups, and much more. Stretch your imagination!
19. Slime Bubble Fidgeter
There’s nothing else quite like this unique fidget shape that has addictingly cool, rubbery slime-filled bubbles designed to gently push, squeeze, and squish! This fidget makes a squeaky squishy sound when you push on the bubbles/force gel thru the maze paths. A great choice for sensory seekers and those with restless fingers.
20. Mini Spiky Oodles Ball
A smaller, very similar version of your favorite Spiky Roly Poly Oodles Balls! Mini Spiky Oodle Balls are wonderfully tactile 2″ fidget balls filled with colorful “gumballs” that are encased in a delightfully SPIKY rubbery skin! These refreshingly touchy-feely tools can help calm stressed minds, while keeping fidgety fingers happily engaged.
21. Tactile Sensory Squares™
Tactile seekers and individuals who have fidgety fingers adore our exclusive new Tactile Sensory Squares™ (that are only available from the Therapy Shoppe®)! These 4-1/2″ soothing (and discreet) silent fidgets fold and/or roll up to easily fit inside pockets, purses, backpacks . . . even most pencil cases. Come in your choice of 4 different, wonderfully textured choices.
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