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Boost Fine Motor Skills with Felt Scraps
Kids can use arts and crafts as a therapy tool. From the relaxation and calming sensations that crafts inspire to the fine motor skills and therapeutic motor movements that cutting, building, and creating provide, crafts have long been a therapy tool for every diagnosis. Using what you’ve got in the house or therapy clinic is one…
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Fall Harvest Themed Proprioception Activities
You might have seen this month’s sensory calendar. October is all about harvest, leaves, and pumpkins and those harvest themes are very sensory experiences! Being that October is Sensory Awareness month, this small series is perfect for sharing. Try the activities below to add a bit of Proprioception Sensory activities with a Fall Harvest theme!…
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Harvest Theme October Sensory Calendar
This month’s Occupational Therapy calendar explores the season’s finest with a Harvest theme. If you’ve missed this years’ series of calendars, you can check out last month’s calendar for activities that will keep your child occupied with sensory play and experiences well into this month. Each month, I’ve been sharing creative and seasonal sensory experiences that address…
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DIY Desk Letter Strip Handwriting Hack
Sometimes all the little handwriting tricks can work wonders when kids are working hard on handwriting. But when the letter formation is functional and sentences are legible, the verbal cues and visual prompts are reduced. But there can be times that letter formation suffers when kids are writing on their own. Check out all…
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Sky Ground Writing Paper
A simple trick to teach kids how to write on the lines is sometimes all that it takes to make hours of handwriting practice “click”. This modified paper technique is a common way that is used among Occupational Therapists to address line awareness, letter size, and letter formation needs in kids. Try using…
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Teach Handwriting with Transfer Paper
This handwriting trick is one that will get the kids excited about practicing their letter size, line awareness, letter formation, and pencil pressure when writing. It’s a power tool that works on so many aspects or written work, making it a simple way to practice many components of handwriting at once. What is this super…
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Sloppy Handwriting Quick Fix
This handwriting trick is an easy one to teach to kids. It’s a quick lesson in written work that may be just the thing that turns sloppy writing into neat and legible handwriting. It’s a quick tip in our 30 day series (that is running just a tad behind schedule. Don’t fret though, all quick…
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Handwriting Spacing Puzzles
Kids who struggle with spacing in written work sometimes write withallthewordstogether. That’s pretty tough to read, right? When kids struggle with spatial awareness may write words and letters with little regard to spacing. A visual perception difficulty prevents kids from writing with adequate spacing on the page. Other times, kids have trouble copying written work…
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Easy Trick for Tripod Grasp
Kids love to have a secret. Sometimes that secret is told to the next unsuspecting person they come into contact with, and other times that secret is held tight. (Helllo, Who-Squeezed-the-Entire-Tube-of-Toothpaste-Into-the-Sink!) This super easy handwriting trick will help kids work on their pencil grasp in order to promote a more functional grip on the pencil. It’s…
