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Kid Made Christmas Ornament Crafts
The ornaments on the tree that mean the most are the Kid-made ones, right? The ones that you keep year after year are so special! We’ve started making more Christmas ornament crafts this year (so watch this space for a few more fun ideas, coming soon!) We wanted to put together this round-up of Christmas…
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Scooping Words Activity
This scooping words activity is a fun way to work on literacy and fluency with reading. Use this activity along with our ping pong bounce game for fine motor fun with reading! This is a multisensory learning activity kids love. Scooping Words Sight Words and decodable reading are something that we’ve been working on every…
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Fine Motor Egg Carton Tree Activity
We are in full Christmas craft mode around here with tons of Christmas fine motor activities…and this egg carton tree was a fine motor hit! We’re excited to share more Christmas crafts and activities that develop motor skills, like this festive egg carton craft. For now, we’ve got a fun fine motor activity that…
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Easy Last Minute Advent Calendar for Families
Use these easy last minute Advent calendar ideas for families as a way to connect this season. This advent calendar is a craft the kids will love to create each year while developing fine motor skills and making memories! For Christmas activity ideas with a therapy punch, use these 25 days of Christmas play ideas.…
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Thanksgiving Felt Board Patterns Direction Following Turkey
This Thanksgiving Felt Board activity was just the thing we needed one afternoon when Little Niece and Nephew were at our house. It was a super cold day and we were happy to stay inside warm and cozy playing and having fun with a few Thanksgiving activities! Thanksgiving Felt Board This felt board was super…
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Playful Ways to Learn the Alphabet
This week on Share It Saturday, we are highlighting Playful Ways to Learn the Alphabet. We love to create unique learning experiences for our kids. Not only is it a great way to encourage participation and develop multiple skills, it’s just fun! Learning letters (and the whole alphabet) in a playful way ensures retention of…
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Gratitude Leaf Garland
We make a Thankful Tree every year where the kids tell me the things they are thankful for and I write out the leaves. We have our Thankful Tree up on the dining room table all November up until Thanksgiving. Check out last year’s Thanksgiving Tree. This year we went a different route with our…
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Fine Motor Sun Catchers
The dyed pumpkin seeds have returned in this easy, last minute, thrown-together craft! A fine motor play activity turned into a cute sun catcher craft. We played with sequins and contact paper before nap time one day recently, and it’s a great Halloween occupational therapy activity. With a little child-led art, the sequins-on-contact paper turned…
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Sight Word Sticky Easel
This was a fun post to write, and more importantly it was fun to PLAY this one! We made this Sight Word Sticky board on the easel to practice a few of Big Sister’s sight words with a fun fine motor twist. Big Sister, Little Guy, Baby Girl, and Little Niece and Nephew all…
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Leaves Craft and Fall Leaf Books
We made a Leaf Placemat Craft recently for a play date craft. This was so much fun that when we came home from the play group, the kids wanted to make more! Our dining room table is looking pretty festive with our leaf place mats. We enjoyed going out on a nature hunt to collect lots of leaves…
