I am always working on interesting and fun ways to work on fine motor skills, and love using clothespins to work on the skills. The kids enjoy pretend playing with ice cream, but for some kids, the ice cream buttons are too hard for them to do. I want them to work on fine motor skills and strengthen their fingers as well as squeeze in some writing practice, so what are we going to play? We are going to play {Read More}
Fine Motor Skills – Why Ask Why?
May 29, by Leave a Comment
Today we hear from a seasoned Occupational Therapist named Stacie Erfle, MS, OTR/L. She is the creator of the Fine Motor ABCs book. A quick Google search will lead to endless possible activities to build fine motor skills. Pinterest is full of imaginative activities to get kids creating with their hands. In this digital world, there is definitely no lack of ideas of WHAT to do. However, in the focus on the WHAT, it can be easy to lose the {Read More}
Search and Find Fine Motor
May 15, by 2 Comments
Everyone has those days where you just need to pull an activity out of your bag that is simple and requires no extra preparation. I have quite a few of those types of activities lurking at the bottom of my bag, and a favorite is the alphabet search. It combines visual scanning, fine motor skill, and hand strength all in one simple task. I use alphabet beads and pom poms scattered together on the table to create a visually distracting {Read More}
New Scissor Skills Book
May 1, by Leave a Comment
Are you looking for some ideas and information to help children learn to cut? Do you struggle with helping your child use scissors? This is a wonderful new book written by a group of therapists that goes over all of the skills areas that are used when cutting with scissors. Written by a team of 10 pediatric physical and occupational therapists with years of experience in the field, The Scissor Skills Book is the ultimate resource for tips, strategies, suggestions, {Read More}
Scissor Cutting Shapes: Pizza
April 30, by Leave a Comment
When working on cutting skills, it is fun to create something out of what you cut. This week I had some of my students make some pizza. I made a template for the shapes needed to make the pizza, and they traced the shapes, cut them out and glued them on to their paper. I printed one sheet in color that I made as an example for them to follow. Once they had all of the toppings to their pizza {Read More}
