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Four Leaf Clover Balance Exercises

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This free teletherapy slide deck is a fun one; It’s a visual guide of four leaf clover activities for kids to work on balance and strength. The balance exercises are set up so kids can balance with a bean bag to work on core strength, coordination, stability, and motor planning skills. These balance exercises will get kids moving with St. Patrick’s Day therapy ideas!

Try this four leaf clover exercises to challenge kids balance or use it as a brain break activity for St. Patrick's Day.

Four Leaf Clover Activities

If you need some activities to incorporated into virtual therapy sessions, or a fun brain break in time for St. Patrick’s Day, this four leaf clover activity is it.

Like all of our free virtual therapy slide decks, this gross motor workout encourages kids to move and develop skills, with a fun theme.

4 leaf clover activity includes a deep breathing activity and balance exercises.

Kids can start with the deep breathing warm up activity, using the clover image. Kids can start by taking deep breaths in and out and following the directions on the 4 leaf clover image.

Deep breathing exercises are a powerful way to achieve a calm-alert state, so that children are ready to learn and participate in therapy. This self-regulation benefit, along with the mindfulness and relaxation benefits makes this four leaf clover breathing exercise a great way to start any therapy session.

You can get a printable version of this four leaf clover deep breathing exercise here on our site. It includes a coloring page, too, so if that would add to your therapy session, be sure to print that off as well.

Use these four leaf clover exercises for balance and sensory input.

Next, kids can move onto the balance exercises. Kids can use a bean bag or a pillow with each exercise to really challenge balance and coordination.

For kids in virtual therapy, a bean bag may not be available. In that case, kids can balance with a pillow in the place of the clover images. Other ideas include using rolled up socks or a stuffed animal.

Each slide deck moves kids through a set of exercises to incorporate core strength and stability, movement changes, inverted positioning, and motor planning challenges. By completing the 4 leaf clover exercises, kids are also gaining vestibular, and proprioceptive sensory input.

Free 4 Leaf Clover Slide Deck

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    Colors Handwriting Kit

    Rainbow Handwriting Kit– This resource pack includes handwriting sheets, write the room cards, color worksheets, visual motor activities, and so much more. The handwriting kit includes:

    • Write the Room, Color Names: Lowercase Letters
    • Write the Room, Color Names: Uppercase Letters
    • Write the Room, Color Names: Cursive Writing
    • Copy/Draw/Color/Cut Color Worksheets
    • Colors Roll & Write Page
    • Color Names Letter Size Puzzle Pages
    • Flip and Fill A-Z Letter Pages
    • Colors Pre-Writing Lines Pencil Control Mazes
    • This handwriting kit now includes a bonus pack of pencil control worksheets, 1-10 fine motor clip cards, visual discrimination maze for directionality, handwriting sheets, and working memory/direction following sheet! Valued at $5, this bonus kit triples the goal areas you can work on in each therapy session or home program.

    Click here to get your copy of the Colors Handwriting Kit.

    Colleen Beck, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 2000, working in school-based, hand therapy, outpatient peds, EI, and SNF. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Read her story about going from an OT making $3/hour (after paying for kids’ childcare) to a full-time OT resource creator for millions of readers. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.

    Valentines Day Busy Bag

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    Fine motor activity using cookie cutters

    This February fine motor activity is a fun way to use an item you probably have on hand: cookie cutters! We used heart cookie cutters and beads to build fine motor skills in a fun and themed way.  There’s a lot of learning that happens during activities with kids.  We put together this Valentine’s Day busy bag activity as a way to practice fine motor skills and color sorting.  It’s another Valentines Day occupational therapy activity that builds essential skills.

    You’ll also love our printable Valentine cards for more fine motor work including writing, folding, coloring, and cutting.

    Valentine's Day busy bag with fine motor heart activity using cookie cutters and beads.

    Heart Busy Bag Activity

    This sorting heart busy bag is a powerful way to improve in-hand manipulation skills.   In-hand manipulation  is a fine motor dexterity skill needed for tasks like managing clothing fasteners, using a pencil when writing, manipulating items like coins or beads, and more.

    Valentine's Day busy bag color sorting activity with beads for fine motor work and color identification.

    Valentine’s Day Busy Bag Activity

    Busy Bag Activities are a great way to learn and play during quiet time or down time.

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    Work on fine motor skills with this Valentine's Day fine motor activity

    We started with a big bin of  beads and a few heart cookie cutters.  I showed Little Sister (age 3) how to sort the beads by color into the hearts.  She had a blast examining each bead and saying “Oh, this one looks pinkish!  Oh this one looks purple-ish!”  

    Valentine's Day busy bag and fine motor activity for skills like in-hand manipulation.
    Use heart shaped cookie cutters and beads to work on fine motor skills.
    Work on fine motor skills with a Valentine's Day fine motor activity


    Fine Motor Valentine’s Day Activity

    Manipulating the beads in the big bin to grab certain colors works on some great fine motor skills.  You need to pick up the beads with a pincer grasp (tips of the pointer finger and thumb) with fine dexterity.  

    Once she grasped a bead, Little Sister would “squirrel away” the colors into the palm of the hand.  This transfer of beads from the tips of the fingers into the palm of the hand is in-hand manipulation(fingers to palm translation).  

    Manipulating small items like beads in this way works on the muscles of the hands and is a great way to work on pre-handwriting or handwriting skills.  A child needs strength of the intrinsic muscles (the muscles within the hand) to manipulate the pencil and maintain endurance for writing and coloring.

    Work on fine motor skills with this heart Valentine's Day occupational therapy activity.

    More Fine Motor Heart Activities

    The Valentine’s Day Fine Motor Kit is here! This printable kit is 25 pages of hands-on activity sheets designed to build skills in pinch and grasp strength, endurance, eye-hand coordination, precision, dexterity, pencil control, handwriting, scissor skills, coloring, and more.

    When you grab the Valentine’s Day Fine Motor Kit now, you’ll get a free BONUS activity: 1-10 clip cards so you can challenge hand strength and endurance with a counting eye-hand coordination activity.

    Click here to grab your copy of the Valentine’s Day Fine Motor Kit.

    Valentines Day fine motor kit
    15 Must-Try Valentine Busy Bags

    Find even more amazing Valentine busy bags

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    Arrow Addition Matching Game // Mama.Papa.Bubba.

    Felt Heart Garden // Powerful Mothering

    LEGO Valentine’s Day Puzzle // Lemon Lime Adventures

    Letter Match Memory Game // The Educators’ Spin On It

    Printable Valentine’s Day Mix and Match Puzzles // Itsy Bitsy Fun

    Printable Conversation Heart Number Book // Playdough to Plato

    Conversation Heart Color Match // Preschool Inspirations

    Valentine’s Day Math Busy Bag // Still Playing School

    3 Low Prep Busy Bags // Lalymom

    Plant Heart Garden // Best Toys 4 Toddlers

    Tic Tac Toe // Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

    Valentine’s Day Number Matching // Coffee Cups and Crayons  

    Colleen Beck, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 2000, working in school-based, hand therapy, outpatient peds, EI, and SNF. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Read her story about going from an OT making $3/hour (after paying for kids’ childcare) to a full-time OT resource creator for millions of readers. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.

    Letter Formation Motor Planning Carpet Square

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    Teaching kids to write letters can be fun when you add creative ways to practice letter formation.  Adding feedback to letter letter formation when handwriting can help kids develop a motor plan that “sticks” when they write letters with paper and pencil.  This easy-set up activity is a creative way to add a proprioceptive sensory component to handwriting with small carpet squares.  This letter formation activity adds motor planning.  Because it’s such an frugal way to practice letters, it would be easy to set up an entire classroom with mini-carpet squares to practice letter formation and motor planning in handwriting.

    Try this letter formation activity to improve motor planning when teaching kids to write letters.

    Letter Formation Activity 


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    To set-up this activity, you’ll need just a couple of items.  We have a handful of small carpet squares that we’ve used for a few different activities.  These were remnants of other projects but many carpet suppliers provide excess carpet squares that can be used.  Becasue many teachers have access to carpet squares in the classroom for circle time, this activity can be especially frugal.

    Kids can work on hand strength, pencil grasp, and letter formation with this letter formation motor planning activity for helping kids learn to write letters.
    Cut a carpet piece into small, 4 inch by 4 inch squares.  You’ll want carpet pieces this size to allow kids to use the small motor muscles for forming letters.  This is essential for proper letter formation when progressing to paper/pencil.  

    Use a small piece of chalk to write the letters on the carpet pieces.  Using a small piece of chalk boosts many skills such as pencil grasp and hand strength.  We talked about using a small pencil to help with handwriting before.  

    And with that, start writing!

    For my preschooler, I wrote the letter on the carpet first with chalk.  This way, she would have a letter to trace and copy.  As she traced the letter, we talked about proper letter formation with simple verbal cues such as: “strait line down” and “line across”.  

    Adding the auditory component boosts retention along with the motor plan of forming the letter.


    Motor Planning Letter Formation Activity


    When they trace the chalk on the carpet square, kids get the feedback of proprioceptive input as they push and pull the chalk through the carpet.  It’s a great workout for the small muscles of the hand and is a nice way to address the motor plan of forming each letter.  Ask your child/student/client to continue tracing over the lines of the letter several times.  This boosts the motor plan needed for forming the letter and helps with carryover.  Read more about handwriting and motor planning activities here. 
    Kids can work on the motor planning needed for letter formation with this handwriting activity.

    My toddler got in on the writing with chalk on carpet action too. 


    Sensory Handwriting Activity


    Then, after writing the letter, have the child erase the chalk letter with a wash cloth.  This is a great way to add more heavy work through the hands! 

    The chalk and carpet texture add a nice bit of tactile sensory input to handwriting.  

    Use carpet squares to work on letter formation and motor planning in handwriting with sensory input.

    For more sensory handwriting activities, try these ideas.
    Use carpet squares to work on letter formation and motor planning in handwriting

    Fingerprint Art from A-Z Fine Motor Finger Isolation

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    Fingerprint art is a fine motor powerhouse.  These cute little Letter of the Week Alphabet finger print crafts don’t really show how many fine motor skills are bring addressed!

    Four kids in eight years make a lot of fingerprints. Fingerprints on the fridge, fingerprints on the sink, and fingerprints on the windows.  Then, there are the bins of artwork that I’ve got saved in the attic.  We all have a couple of those bins of memories that a mama has got to save.  The fingerprint and handprint Mother’s Day gifts, preschool crafts, and memorabilia.

    As an Occupational Therapist who spent years working with kids, I can now practice the finger isolation needed in fine motor skills with my own kids, while creating fun artwork!



    Finger isolation activities and fingerprint fine motor activities for kids to work on developing fine motor skills needed in functional tasks like handwriting, playing instruments, shoe tying, and typing.


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    It is not only fin to make fingerprint artwork, but educational too.  Use fingerprints in fine motor patterns, addition, multiplication, and so many more ways…all while working on finger isolation.


    What is Finger Isolation? 

    Finger isolation is using one finger to perform a task.  Pointing with the index finger, wiggling all of the fingers individually, and counting out the fingers on your hand are finger isolation.  This finger isolation is needed for many functional activities, like dexterity in managing pencils, paintbrushes, and other tools, typing on a keyboard, tying shoes, and many other skills.


    Fine Motor Fingerprints

    Many Occupational Therapists suggest fingerprint activities to their students for the fine motor benefits that the simple task allows.  To create a fingerprint, a child needs to isolate one finger and bend  (flex) the rest of the fingers into a fist.  This is refinement from the fisted hand and “raking” motion that babies and young toddlers demonstrate.  To create a fingerprint, the ulnar (pinkie side of the hand) are stabilized with the pinkie and ring fingers bent into the palm, or are positioned with the pinkie finger extended and abducted (spread apart). 
    This positioning allows the knuckle joints (metacarpals) to stabilize and allow the pointer and middle fingers to be used with more control. The separation of the radial and ulnar sides of the hand allows for more skilled fine motor manipulation.

    So, how can you use fingerprints in activities? 
    • Use fingerprints like you would a dobber.
    • Fingerprint math patterns.
    • Fingerprint pointillism art.
    • Draw circles and ask your child to add their fingerprints to each circle.
    • Fingerprint onto sight words, spelling words, or vocabulary words.


    Finger isolation activities and fingerprint fine motor activities for kids to work on developing fine motor skills needed in functional tasks like handwriting, playing instruments, shoe tying, and typing.


    Finger Isolation Activities to Improve Fine Motor Dexterity:

    Try these fine motor activities to work on finger isolation:
    • Fingerprints!  Make a whole alphabet of fingerprint artwork, using the guide below.  These are perfect for letter of the week letter learning or for just creating a A-Z art with fingerprints.  Each fingerprint represents a letter of the alphabet.  Simply show your child how to print in different colored paints.  When the paint dries, use a black permanent marker to add details.
    Finger isolation activities and fingerprint fine motor activities for kids to work on developing fine motor skills needed in functional tasks like handwriting, playing instruments, shoe tying, and typing.


    More Finger Isolation Activities

    • Squeeze a spray bottle using just one or two fingers.
    • Spin coins on their edges.
    • Roll small balls of play dough between the thumb and index finger.  Repeat between the thumb-middle finger and thumb-ring finger.
    • Try sign language.
    • Play finger games like “Where is Thumbkin” and “Itsy Bitsy Spider”.
    • Shoot Marbles .
    • Finger pattern games.  Ask your child to rest their fingers on the edge of a table.  They can copy your hands as you lift indivisual fingers, seperate, bend, and tap your fingers in patterns.  Ask them to copy using both hands at the same time, then work to copying patterns with just one hand at a time.
    • Play paper football.
    • Finger Puppets allow kids to imagine and pretend while working on finger dexterity and movement of individual fingers in isolation of others. This is a great precurser to typing. Play with these puppets as a hand warm-up before working on keyboarding tasks.
    • Finger Painting This is a sensory and messy texture and wonderful for sensory feedback while working on finger isolation.

      • Fold Oragami
      Squeeze a Bubble gun
      and pop the bubbles between fingers.

    • Practice tying knots and shoe tying.
    • Play a keyboard
    • Play mazes with the fingers. This Sensory Gel Maze
      is perfect for finger isolation.
    • Pick up stick games
    • Screw/Unscrew bottles, lids, nuts, and bolts
    Toy ideas for working on finger isolation Occupational Therapy tips

    Finger isolation activities and fingerprint fine motor activities for kids to work on developing fine motor skills needed in functional tasks like handwriting, playing instruments, shoe tying, and typing.
    Use the activities in this post to work on the skills needed for so many fine motor tasks.  Hopefully, you don’t end up with too many more fingerprints on the windows with all of this finger isolation practice!
    Finger isolation activities and fingerprint fine motor activities for kids to work on developing fine motor skills needed in functional tasks like handwriting, playing instruments, shoe tying, and typing.
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    This post is part of our 31 Days of Occupational Therapy series.  You can find more creative fine motor activities here:


    Pipe Cleaner Busy Bag

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    This pipe cleaner busy bag is a creative way to use pipe cleaners while helping preschoolers to develop fine motor skills and visual motor skills. Add this pipe cleaner busy activity to your list of preschooler activities!

    Pipe Cleaner Busy Bag

    I have been trying to think of activities to keep my 3-year-old son busy lately. He is a busy little guy a
     
    nd always wants to be involved in what we are doing in our homeschool. I typically have little busy-bag activities for him to do and needed to add in some new ones.
     
    We have lots of pipe cleaners so I decided to make a pipe cleaner shape matching activity. I created some simple pictures for him to use to create shapes with pipe cleaners or yarn. You could really do this with any shapes, but I thought it would be fun to make it a more creative picture with nature scenes.


    pipe cleaner shape matching
     
     
     
    pipe cleaner busy bag
     
    I made several different printable pages that can be used in a busy bag or just for anytime. 
     
    shape matching busy bag
     
    We tried doing the activities with yarn as well and it is a little easier to shape them for younger kids.
     

     

     

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    Check out the seasonal Fine Motor Kits that kids love:

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    Clay Rocks for Sensory, Outdoor, and Fine Motor Play

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    We’ve been having a ton of fun with clay recently.  One sunny afternoon, Big Sister and Little Guy got creative and covered a big rock with clay.  It sat out in the sun and got pretty soft.  


    It’s a great way to encourage development of fine motor skills and hand strength in a fun way! 

    This post has been sitting as a draft for weeks!  We made a clay rock a while ago and before this was published, I wanted to see what our rock would do in the rain.  It worked!! Check it out:


    Sensory Play with Clay and Rocks

    What great sensory play!  Pressing that clay around was such a neat sensation.  They could smear the clay around into such a pretty design!


    Fine Motor Play with Clay and Rocks

    Pressing the clay was a great fine motor strengthening activity.  They could isolate individual fingers, press and push the clay into the other colors.  The resistance of the clay worked their little hand and finger muscles.

    So, after the rock sat out in the HOT sun for a while, we noticed that the clay was becoming warmer.  We wondered what would happen if we baked the whole rock and clay. 

    Mom put the rock on a piece of aluminum foil and baked the rock on a cookie sheet at 350 for about 15 minutes.  When this rock came out, the color was spread all over the rock!  What a pretty rock for our yard.

    I wanted to wait and see what would happen to our rock after it was out in the rain and sun for a few weeks.  It is still looking very bright and pretty!  The clay hasn’t seemed to come off at all in the elements. 

    This was such a fun experiment.  Every time Little Guy sees the rock he says: “Hey Mom, Look at that rock, that was SO FUN!”

    Patriotic Craft Fingerpainting Fireworks

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    This finger painting fireworks craft is a great July craft for toddlers that can be used to celebrate the Fourth of July with toddlers and preschoolers! Add this one to our favorite creative painting ideas!

    Finger Paint Fireworks

    This weekend I had 5 kids (ages 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and I had to think of something to keep them all busy. Finger painting is a fun craft for kids all ages, the babies love feeling the different texture of paint on their fingers and playing with the paintbrushes. I pulled out the paper and let them go to town with the washable finger paints!

     

     
     
     

     

     
     I helped my little guy (2) make hand prints in red and blue.

     

     

     The big kids enjoyed mixing colors while my 2 year old enjoyed painting his hand…and mixing colors in the paint jars…ughh. I think every color is now brown. 
     
     This project kept the kids busy for about 30 minutes, enough time for me to put away the dishes and wipe down the table 🙂

     

     
    Once the paint was dry we gathered up some black construction paper, gold tinsel from a gift bag and scissors.  I folded the paper into a small square and helped the older kids cut out fireworks.
     
     

     

     
     We glued the fireworks onto the paper and made the tinsel stream down from the fireworks.  We talked a little about the 4th of July and I told my daughter it was the country’s birthday.  The best part was hearing
    my daughter recite the Pledge of Allegiance  (so cute)!
     

     

    Spider Web Obstacle Course

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    Spider web obstacle course activity for kids

    This spider web obstacle course is a gross motor activity that kids love. Not only will it get them moving around the life size spider web, but you’ll see tons of whole-body movements: crouching, lunging, leaning, bending, crawling, and motoring around string spider webs! Kids love spider activities and this web obstacle course is a great addition. This gross motor coordination activity is a great activity kids love!

    Spider web obstacle course activity for kids

    Spider Web Obstacle Course

    There are so many reasons why occupational therapy practitioners use obstacle courses in therapy practice. This obstacle course idea is a “spin” on our fine motor spider maze. Just like in that activity, participants will develop motor planning skills in order to get through the maze.

    The nice thing about this spider web course is that you can make it as easy or as difficult as you need, depending on the level of the child.

    By crawling over and under the string maze, kids are developing skills in:

    And, as a benefit, kids that participate in this spider web obstacle course also gain benefits of heavy work, vestibular input, and proprioceptive input. Each of these sensory systems result through play.

    How to Use a Spider Web Obstacle Course

    Above, we mentioned a few motor skills that can be strengthened by moving through the string spider web. Let’s dive into those gross motor skills a bit further:

    • Standing on one foot
    • Balancing while lifting one leg up high
    • Crawling
    • Arching the back
    • Creeping on the floor
    • Standing on tip toe
    • Lunging
    • Squatting
    • Reaching high
    • Stepping over
    • Reaching under

    By completing these movements to move through a web of string or rope, motor skills and strengthening develop.

    There are many ways to use a spier web obstacle course in an occupational therapy session or in the home. Use the course along with a visual schedule for the therapy session or even as part of a sensory diet.

    1. Set up the obstacle course as a transition activity by having the child move through the web to retrieve a visual card with the next motor or self-care task.

    2. They can then move through the course again to obtain another visual card on the therapy schedule.

    How to Make an Obstacle Course Spider Web

    One day last week, we decided to build a spider web in the living room.  Little Guy had a blast with this one!  

    To make the obstacle course, use a skein of yarn or thread. String the yard around the room. Go around chair legs, over toys, or other items. If you are wrapping the yard around household items, remember that the string will pull on the objects and the string may pull on the object, so only use heavy duty objects like furniture when planning out your spider web.

    Other items you can add to the spider web obstacle course include:

    • Spider web deep breathing exercise– Print off the deep breathing exercise and when kids get to the printable in the obstacle course, they can stop and do the deep breathing exercise.
    • Spider rings- Add a bunch to a small basket, along with tongs. Kids can pick of the spider rings and drop them into containers.
    Make a spider web obstacle course by stringing thread around the living room.

        He decided to put on his Spiderman costume.  

    Indoor spider web activity

    There was some great motor planning needed to go through this web! Motor planning is the ability to think of, organize, and carry out actions needed for a task.

    Kids with motor planning problems appear clumsy, disorganized, or inattentive.

    They may have problems with clothing management, shoe tying, handwriting, or any fine/gross motor task.

    Child in Spiderman costume moving through a spider web obstacle course.

    Big Sister had to make one too, using her preference of pink yarn.  

    Spiderweb obstacle course with pink yarn

        Even teddy bears can pretend to be Halloween spiders.  

    Colleen Beck, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 2000, working in school-based, hand therapy, outpatient peds, EI, and SNF. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Read her story about going from an OT making $3/hour (after paying for kids’ childcare) to a full-time OT resource creator for millions of readers. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.

    Pumpkin activity kit
    Pumpkin Fine Motor Kit

    Grab the Pumpkin Fine Motor Kit for more coloring, cutting, and eye-hand coordination activities with a Pumpkin theme! It includes:

    • 7 digital products that can be used any time of year- has a “pumpkins” theme
    • 5 pumpkin scissor skills cutting strips
    • Pumpkin scissor skills shapes- use in sensory bins, math, sorting, pattern activities
    • 2 pumpkin visual perception mazes with writing activity
    • Pumpkin “I Spy” sheet – color in the outline shapes to build pencil control and fine motor strength
    • Pumpkin Lacing cards – print, color, and hole punch to build bilateral coordination skills
    • 2 Pumpkin theme handwriting pages – single and double rule bold lined paper for handwriting practice

    Work on underlying fine motor and visual motor integration skills so you can help students excel in handwriting, learning, and motor skill development.

    You can grab this Pumpkin Fine Motor kit for just $6!

    Colleen Beck, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 2000, working in school-based, hand therapy, outpatient peds, EI, and SNF. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Read her story about going from an OT making $3/hour (after paying for kids’ childcare) to a full-time OT resource creator for millions of readers. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.

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