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Improve Handwriting with Art
There are some kids out there who absolutely HATE handwriting. Let me re-phase that. There are a ton of kids who completely despise to their core the act of working neat handwriting, pencil grasp, slowing down so people can read their words, and writing on the lines. A ton. I’ve worked with many (many!) kids…
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Visual Closure Activity Bugs Theme
There is a lot that goes into reading and writing. One of the skills that makes up the ability to read words and form letters in handwriting tasks with fluency is visual closure. Visual Closure is the ability of the eyes to visualize a complete image or object when only a portion is seen. A…
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Second Grade Math Outdoor Learning Idea
There is nothing like learning in the great outdoors. The breeze in your hair, the birds tweeting, and bugs getting involved in the outdoor classroom. Learning outside with the kids is a fun twist on the everyday math homework! We love to spend time outdoors. And, I love to sneak learning activities into our play.…
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Soap Play Dough Recipe
We signed up for another year of the 12 months of Sensory Dough series with a few other bloggers and have been having so much fun coming up with creative play dough recipes. If you missed some of our other recent sensory dough recipes, you’ll want to catch up on the sensory fun: Proprioception Sensory Dough, Paprika…
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In Hand Manipulation Letter Puzzle Activity
This puzzle activity is a great in hand manipulation activity that develops letter recognition, fine motor skills, and other pre-literacy and fine motor development! Kids just have no clue about the technical terms for the fine motor development that they go through. And that is normal and completely ok. Parents typically don’t even know what exactly…
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Improve Pencil Control and Handwriting with Crayons
This is a quick and easy way to build the skills needed for improving handwriting through more controlled pencil strokes. Pencil control is something we’ve covered in depth before. Kids can pick up a pencil and write quickly with scratchy letter formation or press too hard to form very dark letters. We covered the…
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Easy Fruit Salad After School Snack
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cool Whip. All opinions are 100% mine. “Can we have a snack?” It’s the first thing my kids say as soon as they walk in the door. Every day, every Monday through Friday. The backpacks hit the floor and the shoes are kicked into…
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Animal Cracker Oral Motor Exercise
Do your kids like to snack constantly? Mine are allllllways hungry. Always. So, when I pulled out this Animal Cracker Oral Motor activity that we designed to address oral motor sensory processing, they were just a bit excited. Make that completely-jumping-and-cheering-excited. Anything that involves play and food makes the Best Thing of the Day column. …
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Simple Spring Sensory Play Ideas
Spring is in the air and simple sensory activities make play time memorable. I wanted to share a place where all of our Spring sensory activities could be found in one place. These are easy ways to play while addressing sensory needs with tactile sensory play. Getting messy in the dirt or exploring the scents…
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Alphabet Dice Letter Formation Fine Motor Activity
I love to add a fine motor spin to learning activities. When it comes to teaching kids to write letters, knowing correct formation (and the order of making lines in writing a letter) is so important for handwriting legibility and eventually speed of written work. This fine motor peg board activity incorporates eye-hand coordination…
