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Sensory Handwriting Practice Letter Formation
Practicing handwriting doesn’t have to involve paper! This sensory handwriting practice activity works on letter formation and line awareness with proper tool grasp and typical writing motor movements (unlike many sensory writing activities that use a writing tray or over-sized letters–while those sensory writing activities DO add to the tactile sense, they prevent the child from becoming accustomed to holding…
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Creative Art Projects for Kids
We love painting and creating art with the kids. And they LOVE to get messy! These features are fun, creative, and FANTASTIC ways to make ART! These creative art projects challenge the senses and encourage fine motor skill development. Kids can use messy texture paint, tear, and use their hands in painting activities. Creative Art for…
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Sight Word Manipulatives
This sight word manipulatives activity is a great multisensory learning activity for hands-on learning sight words. Use this and all of our sight word activities to support learning with play! Sight Word Manipulatives A sight word manipulative is a learning tool designed to help children recognize and memorize sight words, which are common words that…
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Egg Carton Pumpkins Fall Sensory Bin
We made these fun pumpkins one day and have been playing with them a lot lately. We started by painting an egg carton orange. Big Sister then helped me paint 12 golf tees a nice shade of green. Egg Carton Pumpkins Once the paint dried, Little Guy got busy hammering the golf…
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Sifting Crystals Water Table Exploration
Use a water table and bag of crystals from a mining kit to work on fine motor skills, tactile sensory play, various grasps, and other skills, all while exploring the beauty of gems and crystals. A special Grandma gave the kiddos a bag of gems one day when we were out at a local orchard. They…
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Word Scavenger Hunt
This word scavenger hunt is a hands-on play activity to work on sight words, spelling words, or common words. Use this creative sight word activities for kindergarten and active learning. While we used this activity many years ago to practice sight words, you can definitely use the idea to practice reading words and spelling words.…
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Beginning Reading for Kindergarten
Today, we are covering something I love to talk about…beginning reading for kindergarten, from the perspective of an occupational therapist. Kindergarten is a time to begin the educational process that lasts for at least another 12 or more years. It’s during kindergarten that we establish a love for learning, and beginner readers will become exposed…
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Birthday Party Themes for Kids
We’re continuing on with our round-up of our favorite posts from the last year of blogging. We’ve did a few round-ups of our favorite Messy Play posts, Fine Motor Play posts, and Pretend Play posts. (Each with a great giveaway!!) Today we’re talking Parties! Birthday Party Themes for Kids There’s no doubt we love planning…
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Why Kids Need Messy Play Ideas
We’ve done lots of messy play ideas and this is a round-up of our favorites. Sensory play is great for kids to explore textures, their senses, and have fun. Not only that, but through sensory touch, messy play activities support development in several areas: tactile sensory exploration, tactile challenges, problem solving, communication and language development, fine motor skills, self-care skills (washing hands and putting…
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Building Self-Confidence Through Pretend Play
Happy ONE YEAR blog anniversary to Sugar Aunts! Thanks for joining us in our first year of blogging. What a crazy, fun year this has been full of blogging ups and downs! We’ve learned so much in this year about blogging and have big plans for our next year! We wanted to put together a…
