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Contact Paper Leaf Collection
Did you ever go on a nature walk and collect colorful leaves but have no where to put them? This contact paper leaf collection is a Fall leaf collage and all you need is a sheet of contact paper. This is a fun way to expand on a family nature walk during the Fall months!…
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Fall Leaf Auditory Processing Activities
These Fall Leaf Auditory Processing Activities are great for addressing listening skills in kids with or without auditory processing difficulties. Try this creative leaf idea at home or in the school yard to easily strengthen auditory abilities for better learning. Perfect for children of all ages and developmental levels, it’s a Fall themed activity that…
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Apple Seeds Fine Motor Activity
This fine motor apple seeds activity was a hit when we first did it back in 2016. My kids loved dissecting apple seeds from a sliced apple…and then eating the apple slices. Little did they know, but they were also working on quite a few fine motor skills with this little apple activity! We decided…
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Building Fine Motor Skills Through Play
Play is a child’s primary occupation. The occupations of a person are the meaningful and purposeful activities and adults have distinctly different occupations than children. A child develops functional skills, learns about their abilities, grows in motor, language, interpersonal skills, and learn the value of their capacities, all through play. Children are drawn to the…
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Pumpkin Sensory Activities
During the Fall months, pumpkin-everything is all we see, hear about, and smell…so why not incorporate pumpkin sensory activities into therapy planning and play-based learning? These sensory-based pumpkin activities support development of motor skills and incorporate sensory processing in various ways, but there’s more to it: Using pumpkin sensory play is a fun way to…
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Pumpkin Deep Breathing Exercise for Halloween Mindfulness
This Pumpkin Deep Breathing Exercise is the very first visual breathing tool that we created here on the website. We now have many more deep breathing exercises designed to support self-regulation, mindfulness, and brain break needs. We’ve recently updated this Halloween mindfulness activity to include more information on WHY this pumpkin deep breathing strategy works.…
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Back to School Activities
Occupational therapy practitioners working in school based occupational therapy know that collecting data, building rapport with students, and coming up with fun ways to support educational needs is a tricky, but fun challenge in OT sessions. We have pulled together some of our favorite activities to cover various aspects of the scope of school based…
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Keyring Pencil Grasp Trick
Today, I’m excited to share a fine motor skills book written by a fellow Occupational Therapist. Fine Motor ABC is a book full of alphabet themed activities that are designed to strengthen fine motor skills that are needed for functional tasks such as handwriting. We tried one of the activities and found a great way to…
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OT Tips for Infant Feeding Therapy
One area of daily functional tasks that pediatric occupational therapy providers support family and caregivers, is by addressing infant feeding challenges. When we receive an occupational therapy referral for a newborn, we are definitely going to be addressing infant feeding therapy in both the evaluation and probably the OT interventions. This means we support new…
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Learning with Dyed Alphabet Pasta
Grab a box of alphabet noodles for a fun multisensory learning activity that builds skills in many areas. We used letters pasta to create a sensory bin that incorporates fine motor skills and a letter learning activity. Alphabet Noodles You might remember eating alphabet noodles as a child in soup. But if you have a…
