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Pencil Pressure When Writing
If you’ve worked with kids teaching handwriting or fixing handwriting issues, they you probably have come across a common handwriting problem area…Pencil pressure when writing. Handwriting pressure can play a huge role in legibility, whether pressing too hard when writing or writing too lightly. Pencil Pressure in Handwriting Some kids press too hard on the…
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Mindfulness Audiobooks
In this mindfulness resource, you’ll find recommendations for mindfulness audiobooks easily accessible for use right now. The term “mindful” literally means to be aware. For example; be mindful of the speed bump in the road. Understanding this, we can deduce that mindfulness has something to do with awareness. The number of resources available such as…
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Olfactory Sensory Activities
Here, you’ll find olfactory sensory activities and Scented ways to play and learn this week. The sense of smell is a great way to impact learning, and scented activities are not just fun. You can add these scented play ideas in smell sensory activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and older ages. Use the sense of smell…
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Audio Books for Occupational Therapists
Today, I’ve got a list of free audiobooks for occupational therapists. These occupational therapy audiobook ideas can be used to develop, learn, and grow as a therapist. These occupational therapy books are audiobooks, making them great tools for learning new skills while on the go. Therapists are short on time, so occupational therapist audio courses and audiobooks…
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Gross Motor Coordination Activities
Hop, skip, jump, push and pull are all skills needed, to build foundational gross motor coordination. Gross motor coordination activities are an engaging way to build these skills. Delays in gross motor coordination can impact the academic learning process of a child. These are skills that are needed to sit and engage in the classroom,…
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Creative Sight Word Activities for Kindergarten
We’ve been doing a bunch of fun sight words in the past few months and here, you will find all of our favorite sight word activities for kindergarten. This is a collection of all of our sight word activities, or multisensory learning activities focused on reading skills. The best thing about these hands-on reading activities…
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Play Dough Recipe Without Cream of Tartar
This play dough recipe without Cream of Tartar is one of our favorite playdough recipes because it omits cream of tartar, so the dough ingredients are commonly found in the home. If you’ve been following this site over the years, you’ve seen many of our play dough recipes, one of them being this play dough…
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Auditory Attention Activities
Below, you will find information on how to improve attention and memory with auditory processing techniques, specifically through auditory feedback. We’re sharing information regarding an auditory processing tool and auditory attention activities to utilize auditory feedback to promote attention and memory within functional tasks. Attention to language, aspects of sound, and auditory memory skills can…
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BLANK WORD SEARCH
What better way to work on visual perceptual skills AND handwriting, than by adding this blank word search template to your treatment plans? If you’ve seen some of the other St. Patrick’s Day activities on the site this week, then you can add this activity to your March OT lesson plans. The OT Toolbox has a…
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Make a Play Dough Snake to Build Fine Motor Skills
If you’ve ever played with Play Doh then you may have made a play dough snake. But did you ever stop and think about the various fine motor skills being developed with that simple play dough creature? Here we have a super simple and fun activity using play dough and rocks: Making play dough snakes!…
