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Handwriting Practice While Traveling
Summer vacation can mean relaxing times of making memories with family and friends. Long, lazy days without routines, later bedtimes, and days without the daily grind of homework and school checklists are what make a childhood’s summer carefree. But, summer can also mean the “summer slump”. Those skills that were learned over the previous school year…
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Free Visual Perception Worksheet Monkey Theme
Visual perceptual skills are needed for so many functional tasks! Writing on lines, copying written work, reading without skipping words, walking in a crowded hallway, organizing materials, pouring water into a cup without spilling, searching for a paperclip in a junk drawer…everything done throughout the day requires the ability to visually process information. For the…
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Motor Planning Activities with Sidewalk Chalk
Motor planning is a skill that is needed for every action that we do! The motor planning activities in this post are designed to promote motor movement development into play, using sidewalk chalk. These are the perfect activity for outdoor play with a sensory component. Find more information about motor planning and how to incorporate motor…
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Outdoor Balance Beam Ideas
Balance beams are a great tool for addressing areas like vestibular sensory input, core strength, balance, visual motor skills, and attention. Here are outdoor balance beams and balance beam ideas that don’t require a playground or fancy equipment. These balance beams for kids are helpful in building the skills needed for reading, writing, visual processing,…
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Teach Scissor Skills by Playing with Slime
If your house is like mine, slime, making slime, and playing with slime is a daily activity and conversation piece. Slime is all the rage right now in the school-aged kids. So, you might be like me and wonder what to do with those six batches of slime that are sitting around the house. Why…
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The Scissor Skills Book
Most parents have wondered at one point of another if they should allow their child to cut with a pair of scissors. But what if they decide to cut their hair off? Or what if they snip a hole in their best jeans? It can be a real struggle to allow your child to hold…
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Steps of Scissor Skill Development
Cutting with scissors is fun for many children. When a child starts to show an interest in learning to cut with scissors, it is possible that they have already started the developmental progression of skills needed for scissor use. The steps of scissor skills development typically happens through play. So how do you know how…
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Alexa Skills for Therapy
Many people have an Echo dot or an Amazon Echo device that has Alexa. The voice-controlled devices have a small built-in speakers and connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more. I discovered a few Alexa skills that are perfect for helping kids with therapy needs or…
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Weighted Fidget Toy
This weighted fidget toy is a calming tool that can be used in the classroom or at home when kids need to calm down and focus to desk work. I love the fine motor benefits that kids get when making this calming fidget toy too. This is another occupational therapy toy that supports needs like…
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Easy Impulse Control Strategies
Here, you’ll find easy impulse control strategies. Use these tips and activities along with other resources on improving impulse control skills: These impulse control activities and how to teach impulse control. Use those resources in combination with the impulsivity tips in this post as intervention strategies for impulsive behavior. Here on the site, we’ve shared…
