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Rainy Summer Day Activities
These rainy summer day activities are great for play, encouraging movement, activity, and fun all while playing indoors. Rainy Summer Day Activities! This week was especially rainy and cool around here, so it was perfect timing for our special Rainy Summer Day play activity round-up. Something as simple as no sew felt crafts are a…
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Foam Beading: fine motor. scissor use. tripod grasp.
Use this fine motor activity to address the underlying skills needed for functional tasks like pencil grasp, scissor use, clothing fasteners, and more in a fun and playful activity that kids will love! We used simple foal curlers and a pipe cleaner to create a tool for boosting bilateral coordination, visual motor skills, motor planning,…
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Rainy Summer Day: Letter Ice Muffins
We had a rainy forecast today…80 percent chance of rain. I pulled out our bin of magnetic letters one morning and prepared a little play activity for later in the day. I was thinking that pulling the paper off of the ice would be fun and great for fine motor play. …
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Winnie the Pooh and Honey Bee birthday party details
We celebrated a very special little lady’s FIRST birthday this weekend by attending her This party had extra little details all through out and was such a fun way to celebrate together with family. We had so much fun playing at the park where this party was held, that we stayed for SIX hours! We…
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beach small world play
Many years ago, we made a creative ocean and beach small world play activity and it was a Summer hit! Whether you are looking for activities to keep the kids busy at home through hands-on, sensory play, OR if you need Summer occupational therapy activities to use in skill-building, a beach small world is a…
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Fine Motor Strengthening Color Match
When I saw how the thread matched the color of some of the crafting poms, I knew we had to do a color matching activity. Fine Motor Strengthening I wrapped the thread around the ends of the clothes pins. We received a great package in the mail one day from http://www.craftprojectideas.com/. This was just…
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Toddler Ping Pong Visual Motor Play
Baby Girl had some alone time with mommy and we did allll her favorite things…played with Little People, read her favorite books, ran around outside and went in and out (and in and out again!) the sandbox. And Mommy soaked up the extra time for snuggles and belly kisses 🙂 We also did this fun little activity. She…
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Fine Motor WATER PLAY
This is part 2 of a two-part outdoor messy play activity. If you missed part one, Sensory Paint Play(Part1) was very fun…Check it out! We left the bubble wrap/blue paint dry right in the bins overnight. The next day was another super hot and sunny day. Add a bin of water and some empty plastic bottles, and…
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Share It Saturday #22 and our Week in Review
It’s The Weekend! Thank you so much for stopping back each week to share your ideas with us. We can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to this week! Here’s what we’ve been doing: Our week included a lot of outside play…jumping in puddles, sprinkler play… We had a cousin Toddler-sized Tea Party. Which…
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Sensory Paint Play
This sensory paint activity used bubble wrap for a wonderful tactile experience. We loved to feel the bubble wrap sensory activity. Kids can use this as a way to work on sensory touch and tactile defensiveness, or just for fun, creative painting! Sensory Paint This sensory paint idea is easy. You’ll need just a couple…
