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Grow a Garden with Play Dough Flowers
We love making these play dough flowers with paper clips, paper flowers, and rocks. It’s such a fun fine motor activity that kids absolutely love, and so do I as an occupational therapist who loves easy and simple fine motor activities that build skills through play. Play Dough Flowers with paper clips and rocks We…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Craft
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a big part of Little Guy’s pretend play and fun on a daily basis. He’s got the action figures and sets up battles with them, pretending all kinds of ninja action. If you’ve got a ninja turtle fan in your house, these egg carton figures are the thing to…
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Color Sorting Scissor Activity
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know how much we love to do fine motor activities. Scissor activities for kids is one of our favorite fine motor topics and we’ve got a bunch of creative ways to practice them! This fun fine motor color sorting activity was part of prep for another activity…
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Tips to Make Reading Fun
Do you have a reluctant reader in your house? The features from this week’s Share It Saturday have got some GREAT tips on how to make reading fun for kids of different ages. A love of reading begins from a very young age and promoting that love throughout childhood is so important…and fun! We’re loving…
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Word Building Activity with Letter Blends Rock Letters
Beginner readers are so much fun! It is very exciting to see Big Sister learn and grow in her reading skill as this year goes by. She is doing really well with her reading, and more importantly, developing a love for reading. This word building activity was a fun way to practice some of her…
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Stamped art flower craft
This flower craft has been decorating our dining room for a few weeks now and we are loving the splash of color. You may have seen our DIY Shape Stamps post a while back. We re-used that artwork to create this pretty flower craft. Recycled materials crafts are nothing new around here. We love re-using…
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Concentric Circle Stamp Art
We do a ton of painting in our house. This painting activity was very fun for Baby Girl. We used a few recycled lids and bottle caps to create this art and had a blast! Use this as a creative painting activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Stamp art for kids Pour a little paint onto…
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Sensory Letter Play Activity for Kids
This sensory letter activity is a totally easy way to play and explore senses while learning a little along the way. Baby Girl and I get some one-on-one time while Little Guy is at school a few days a week. She is all about fun ideas and willing to go along with all of my…
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Sight Word Crayon Rubbing Activity
This sight word activity has been so much fun. I got the idea when Big Sister came home from school with some sight word crayon rubbings. She made them during centers in her Kindergarten class. I had the idea that we could make our own version at home for added practice (and fun!). We…
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Visual Scanning Activities
These Visual Scanning activities support the essential visual skill needed for functional tasks. Here, we are covering specific strategies to support the ability to scan during daily tasks, all through play-based visual processing activities. Related, is this resource on scanning activities for reading, which is a very functional occupation and a part of learning impacted…
