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Fine Motor Coordination Activities
Fine motor skills are often times, the culprit behind problems you see in the classroom or at home. From opening a food container, to managing buttons on a jacket, to managing legos when playing, to tying shoes in the third grade, to keeping up with peers when writing with a pencil…fine motor skills play a…
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Thank You Monthly Professional Goal Planner
Thank you for grabbing the Monthly Professional Goal Planner worksheets. The freebie should be in your inbox right now. Use the printable pages to plan out goals for each month of the year. Goals can be monitored to achieve success and professional advancement. It’s our hope that you will join us in The OT Toolbox…
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Impulse Control Free Offers
Impulse control is a struggle for everyone. From that cookie that’s calling your name from the kitchen cupboard to the student who just can’t stay in his seat during class, all of us have impulses that challenge our self-control. Some children struggle with impulses more than others. Children with attention difficulties have trouble…
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How Does Sensory Modulation Impact Impulsivity
A child jumps up from his seat in the middle of a classroom assignment. again. A student acts out as he tries to make his classmates laugh. A play date friend hits and kicks other kids during play. A peer grabs toys from her friends hands. A child interrupts his mom while she’s…
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Use Wind-Up Toys Fine Motor Activity
So, we have a small collection of wind-up toys. They are one of our favorite ways to play and a powerful occupational therapy toy. There is just something about a chattering set of teeth that walk that makes a kid smile. When you add in the fine motor benefits of playing with wind-up toys, it’s…
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More Strategies to Help Impulse Control in the Classroom
Kids struggle with impulse control. It’s natural. In the classroom, impulsive actions can mean trouble for kids. When kids act out in school, attention lags, peers are distracted, and learning suffers. Recently, I shared some strategies to help kids improve impulse control. There was a nice list of strategies to help with self-control in the…
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Free Visual Perception Worksheet- FLowers Theme
This flower theme free visual perception worksheet is one of many free visual perception worksheets here on The OT Toolbox. Kids need to work on visual perceptual skills for many reasons. Skills like handwriting and scissor use are oftentimes, a result of difficulties with visual perceptual skills. This visual perception worksheet can be part of…
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Space Visual Discrimination Worksheet #1
This free space visual discrimination worksheet is a free printable sheet to work on visual perceptual skills in kids, using an outer space theme. this worksheet for occupational therapy is part of a free 25 page visual perception worksheets packet. Visual discrimination is a skill that kids need for so many skills. From identifying and…
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Activities to Improve Oculomotor Dysfunction
Oculomotor function refers to the six muscles surrounding each eye. These muscles work together to produce controlled eye movements. When there is oculomotor dysfunction evident, a child may have difficulty with depth perception, visual attention, visual memory, visual perceptual tasks, visual scanning, spatial disorientation, eye-hand coordination, balance, or reading and writing tasks. You can see…
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Sight Word Sensory Tray
This sight word sensory tray is a multisensory sight word activity designed to help young children learn common words. There are some words that kids learn by heart. These “heart words” are what we used to call “sight words”. In this sight word activity, we are using some sight words from an old list as…
