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Key Chain Fidget Toys
Key chain fidget toys might be my favorite occupational therapy toy yet. The just right self regulation tool needed for sitting on a noisy bus, maintaining attention during circle time, or for managing stress during conversations, a key chain fidget is the tool that supports all of these areas! Key Chain Fidget Fidget tools are…
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Fine Motor Garland Crafts for Older Kids
I share a lot of crafts and activities here that are designed to help kids develop and build fine motor skills. It’s usually the preschooler who is working on pre-writing skill work and building a base for holding a pencil or using scissors, or the early elementary aged child who writes with an awkward pencil…
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Attention, Behavior, and Meal Time Problems
In this post, you will find an explanation of attention and behavior concerns that interfere with independence in self feeding and resulting meal time problems with kids. What might look like extreme picky eating can be a variety of issues, including attention or behaviour considerations. Attention and behavior during meal time functional skills are a vital…
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Monster at the End of This Book Grover Craft
Do you have a book that you remember reading as a child and LOVING? The Monster at the End of This Book is that one for me. I loved this book as a kid. It is so neat to introduce my kids to books that I loved as a child and now, they are huge…
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Handwriting Accommodations for the Classroom
Handwriting accommodations for the classroom can help the child who has tried many handwriting strategies for improving legibility and written work. Try these classroom accommodations to help with spacing, line awareness, and letter formation in written work. These handwriting ideas can be used by educators, therapists, and parents across the curriculum in everyday writing tasks.…
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Fall Visual Processing Sensory Activities
Visual Processing can result in overactive sensitivity to sights or an under-responsiveness to all that the eye sees. During Fall, there are many more colors and visual sights that can be a sense of interest to children with sensory processing disorders. A simple walk in the yard is much different during the Fall months when…
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Visual Processing and Handwriting
Visual Processing Skills are essential for handwriting. Use this Visual Processing Checklist in the classroom, home, or therapy clinic to help kids address visual processing skills for improved legibility in written work. This post is part of our Easy Quick Fixes to Better Handwriting series. You’ll also want to join the Sweet Ideas for Handwriting Practice…
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Fall Tactile Sensory Activities
This time of year, it’s fun to encourage Fall tactile sensory activities to promote and encourage the sense of touch and tactile challenges. Kids will love these Fall tactile sensory activities. Kids and families can get involved in these fall and harvest themed activities that just might start a new seasonal tradition while encouraging sensory…
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Fall Vestibular Sensory Activities
Fall means jumping in piles of colorful leaves and it’s a season of vestibular sensory input. Moving, jumping, rolling, hopping, and swinging are vestibular activities that are sensory based movements that challenge the body’s ability adjust to changes in gravitational pull and movement. The vestibular sensory system can be rhythmical and calming or unpredictable and alerting. These Fall…
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Balloon Garland for Parties
We had a birthday in our house this week. I have a new five year old and when you are five, parties mean balloons. I made this super simple balloon garland for the birthday girl’s special day. Making a balloon party garland is perfect for busy moms because they come together so quickly. With four…
