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Fine Motor Feather Burlap Weaving
Fine motor feather burlap weaving activity is a creative way to build many fine motor skills needed for functional tasks. This creative weaving activity uses a few materials you might have in your craft area or can be easily found in craft stores. Grab some feathers and get ready to work on those fine motor…
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How To Get Your Kids to Practice Handwriting A-Z Writing Activity
You may recall that we love handwriting activities around here. It’s a topic I’ve loved to cover since my days as a school-based Occupational Therapist. I love to take an activity that works on the skills needed for functional tasks and build them through creative play and development. It’s just fun to be creative! …
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Playground Therapy
Whether in the school environment or accessing playgrounds in the community, it is important to discuss playground therapy as a tool for building skills. Therapy playground strategies can support development in many different areas. Here, we’ll cover how to incorporate the playground in therapy sessions, as well as playground equipment. You’ll also want to dive into specifics about sensory integration at the playground and balance…
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How to teach a child to zip their coat
Here, you’ll fid a zippering activity that can be used for how to teach a child to zip their coat. Teach kids how to use a zipper doesn’t need to be complicated. It can be a complicated functional skill for kids and process. Managing two hands together at the belly level, using one hand to…
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Sensory Processing at the Playground
It can be frustrating as a therapist and parent to have a child or client with sensory processing needs when therapy equipment resources are unavailable or too expensive for home or treatment spaces. It would be nice to refer a child to a fully equipped sensory integration gym but sometimes that is just not possible.…
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Flower Match-Up Activity
This matchup worksheet is a fun matching activity that therapists can use to support development of many areas. From visual perceptual skills to fine motor and eye-hand coordination…this flower matching worksheet is a fun way to support development. This is a great addition to a flower craft or flower theme when using themes in occupational…
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Baking Soda Vinegar Powered Boat STEM
This baking soda and vinegar powered boat was such a fun way to build and explore movement powered by science. My kiddos and a niece and nephew built this boat using recycled materials, (a lot like we did last week with our evaporation experiment). This boat required a baking soda and vinegar reaction to power…
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Slime Writing Tray
Have you made slime? I have to admit. We’ve got tons (and tons) of play dough recipes…but we have never made slime. It’s been on our list for a long time, but we just never got around to it. We whipped up our first batch the other day and I think I have created a family…
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Handwriting Travel Printable
Are you traveling with the kids this summer? Work on handwriting while you’re at it! These activities are perfect for addressing handwriting practice needs in a meaningful (and non-nagging) kind of way. Many kids love to participate in the planning of a vacation, so give them a job to do that involves the family’s travels…with…
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Gardening Play Date for Kids
My kids have a love of fresh veggies. Every year, we dig up a little plot of dirt and plan out a garden. Any worms that are dug up are buried back into the freshly turned ground. (My kids also have a love of all things mud, and worms.) After the garden is planned, we…
