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Craft Stick Tweezers to Help with Pencil Grasp
I have a fun DIY for you! These craft stick tweezers are easy to create and a workout for finger muscles. We made them in a rainbow of colors and you can use them for color sorting while working on the fine motor skills needed for handwriting and small motor tasks like managing clothing fasteners. How Do…
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Spring Robin Sensory Bin
Spring is in the air! We’ve been lucky to have a few days of warmer weather and have been outside playing the hours away. Of course we had to create our first outdoor sensory bin of the season! This Spring Robin Sensory Bin is sure to get you in the mood for Spring. We used…
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Tinker Toys STEM Pulley
This week in our Early Learning series, we’re covering STEM. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math are all over the place these days. And there is good reason, we love this occupational therapy toy, too. STEM learning is present in classrooms, summer camps, after-school programs, and even library programs. As a benefit, STEM fine motor activities…
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Intrinsic Hand Muscle Strengthening with Tongs
Handwriting legibility and hand strength are closely tied. You might say they go hand-in-hand. (I had to go there!) This easy fine motor tong activity is designed to build some of the muscles needed for managing a pencil. The intrinsic muscles are the muscles in the hand that define the arches of the hands, bend the…
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Large Fine Motor Threading with Recycled Spools
Looking for a fine motor activity that uses the small motor movements of the hands needed for skills like beading, handwriting, and managing clothing fasteners? Sometimes, it can be difficult to get a kiddo to work on those areas when the very task you need to strengthen is one that is difficult to do. Sometimes…
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Shop
Welcome to the Shop. There are so many great products out there and I wanted to put together my favorites. These are affiliate links, meaning I will receive a percentage of the purchase, at no cost to you. I do want to say, though that I only share products that I stand behind. These are…
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Pre-Writing Lines Activity
Working on the underlying pre-writing skills of handwriting is SO important in handwriting. This pre-writing lines activity is a fun Easter occupational therapy activity, but it’s also a powerful tool for building the foundation for handwriting. This is one of our favorite Wikki Stix activities to support pre-writing development. You know we like to share…
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Magnetic Letter and Spoons Handwriting Game
Sometimes, it’s fun to make handwriting practice a little bit different. This magnetic letter activity was a fun way to work on letter identification and letter formation in handwriting. For young children, becoming more familiar with letters and the alphabet is key to age-appropriate literacy. This refers to knowing a letter’s name, the letter’s sound, and the…
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All the Best Crayon Play Dough Ideas
Crayon play dough is one of our favorite homemade play dough recipes! Here, we have all of our versions of crayon play dough recipes in one place! We know the benefits of play dough as a therapy tool, but when it comes to play dough made with crayons, there are even more! Broken crayons…
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Pre-Writing Strokes and Handwriting
Did you know there is a developmental progression to pre-writing strokes? Before children can form letters, they need the developmental ability to form straight and diagonal lines, shapes, and intersecting lines. Before children are developmentally able to form and copy letters and numbers, they need the pre-writing skills. Developmental prgression of pre-writing strokes Pre-writing strokes…
