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Easy Activity to Help Kids with Reading, Word Searches, & Visual Scanning
Today, I’ve got a super fun fine motor activity that not only will be a hit with the kids, it will work on a few very important skills. This fine motor fidget toy is fun for kids to make and works on visual scanning at the same time. Then, when they are done, you’ve got…
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6 Creative Ways to Improve Visual Tracking Using Recycled Cardboard Tubes
If you’ve been following along with us for long, you know that I love to use every day items and recycled materials in play and learning activities. Today, I’m excited to share a free way to work on Visual Tracking Skills in kids. Recently, I wrote a post all about visual tracking skills in kids…
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Handwriting Warm-Up Exercises for Little Hands
Today, we’re covering a great fine motor resource: handwriting warm up exercises. These fine motor warm up exercises get the blood flowing and prime the hands for mobility and dexterity. When many children write with a pencil, they complain about their hands being tired. The same is true when coloring a coloring page. What’s going…
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Fine Motor Fuzzy Beads for Letter Recognition
Today, I’ve got an easy letter recognition and fine motor activity for you to try with your preschool and kindergarten aged kids. Sometimes a fun letter activity adds play to learning and the kids don’t even realize they are learning. Then, when you throw in a fine motor component that might be difficult for them…
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Leftover Spaghetti Cup Nests Recipe
If you are like me, your kids gobble up spaghetti. And really, they chow down on pasta of any kind. I always have pasta in the cupboards ready to go for quick dinners or leftover in the fridge. Today, I’ve got a fun and creative appetizer or main dish idea that will use up leftover…
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Homemade & Store Bought Lacing Cards Bilateral Coordination
Lacing Cards can always be found in an Occupational Therapist’s treatment bag. Every pediatric OT clinic, preschool therapist, and school-based OT has a bag of lacing cards. It’s just that lacing cards are a powerhouse of therapeutic benefits for kids of all ages. Why use lacing cards with kids of all ages? Read on, I’ve…
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Easy Tips to Teach Kids How to Write Letters
It can be a tricky thing to teach kids how to write their letters. They learn a letter a week in preschool or at home. When a child is just not interested in coloring, writing, and fine motor tasks, teaching letters can be difficult. I am all about creative and playful learning and when it…
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Ghost Craft Sensory Exploration
This Halloween Ghost craft was so beyond easy to throw together. I tend to save a little bit of everything to use in play, crafts, and fine motor/sensory/movement activities and use them in occupational therapy halloween crafts to work on a variety of areas with a fun fall theme. We have a pile of these plastic…
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Cal Oct OT
Thank you for joining us in this month’s Sensory Challenge in honor of Sensory Awareness month! Flip through the booklet and add creative sensory input to your day. Invite the whole family to take part in these activities that can build on or add to a sensory diet. Complete one sensory activity each day.…
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In-hand Manipulation for Functional Tasks and a Letter Activity
Kids require a lot of skills to write with a pencil, button a coat, zipper a shirt, and manage a handful of coins. Today we’re sharing ideas to help your child with in-hand manipulation. This skill is important for moving that pencil, erasing mistakes, and fine motor tasks like managing buttons and zippers, coins, small…
