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Activities, bimanual, child, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, games, hand strengthening, Handwriting, OT

Fun Ice Cream Clothespin Game

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…

Activities, ADL, adult, buttoning, child, Craft, felt, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Motor Planning, OT, pipe cleaner, spring

Make Button Flowers

Flowers make a great spring time activity, and there are so many ways to incorporate flowers into therapy to work on fine motor, visual motor, and coordination. I have many flower activities, such as ones that use clothes pins, but today we…

Activities, activity printable, buttoning, child, Craft, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, Free Printable, OT, Paint, Paper, Pom Poms or cotton balls, Printable, spring

Rainbow Fine Motor Activities with Q-tip Painting

It is fun to do rainbow activities as you can include color sorting and matching along with working on fine motor skills. I have done many different rainbow activities over the years, and have also incorporated a Q-tip painting template into…

Activities, activity printable, ADL, buttoning, child, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, Printable

Using the Button Sandwich for Sequencing and Writing

I love using the button food for practicing buttoning and working on fine motor and visual perceptual skills. I made some order forms so that the kids can practice writing and sequencing their sandwich toppings as well. The kids can take…

Activities, Animals, bimanual, child, Craft, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, Fun Foam, OT, Paper, preschool, Recycled, recycled, toddler, visual perceptual

Feed the Animal Fine Motor Activity

I always love the fine motor activity of putting objects into a hole or slot, and it makes the task more fun and engaging when you are pretending to feed an animal. Plastic deli containers or yogurt containers are perfect to cut a mouth…

Activities, ADL, buttoning, child, dressing, elementary school age, fall, felt, OT, preschool, season, spring, summer, winter

Seasons Button Tree

I have added another button activity to my arsenal of fun things to button. This one is a seasonal tree, so you can button on the different seasons. It includes white snow for winter, green for spring, orange and red for fall, and fruit of red…

Activities, ADL, buttoning, child, christmas, elementary school age, felt, holiday, OT, winter

Button Felt Christmas Tree

Felt button activities are fun to use when working on buttoning skills, and a Christmas tree lends itself really well to buttoning. I made a button Christmas tree, and you can button the circle ornaments onto the tree. To make your own, you…

Activities, bimanual, child, christmas, Craft, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, holiday, in-hand manipulation, Materials, Motor Planning, OT, season, visual perceptual, winter

Felt Christmas Tree

Here is a fun little Christmas activity of decorating a Christmas tree with felt ornaments. I got a styrofoam cone from the craft store and wrapped green felt around it. I then cut out some ornament shapes from different colored felt. You could…

Activities, ADL, buttoning, child, dressing, elementary school age, felt, OT, winter

Make a Button Snow Man

Kids like buttoning different things like a pizza, sandwich, and ice cream. I am constantly working on new buttoning activities, and have just finished making a snow man. It is adorable, and perfect for buttoning since there are lots of parts…

Activities, ADL, child, dressing, felt, Materials, OT, preschool, toddler

A Button Snake With Lots of Buttons

Button snakes are a very simple way to practice buttoning. They have a ribbon and a button on the end and you string pieces of fabric onto the string. I made one with different types of fabric, and now have a new one that has multiple buttons…

Activities, ADL, bimanual, buttoning, child, Craft, dressing, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, Motor Planning, OT

A Fun Summer Buttoning Ice Cream Cone

I have been working on a bunch of different buttoning activities and thought I would share the ones that I made this week. I made some bananas that you can unbutton from the bunch, an ice cream cone to button the scoops on, some pancakes with…

Activities, activity printable, Animals, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, Free Printable, Motor Planning, OT, Pom Poms or cotton balls, Printable, scissor cutting, Scissor Cutting

Pom Pom Animals

When I was a kid, I spent hours making these felt and pom pom animals. I have had the pom poms in a box all these years, but could only find a couple of the hand made patterns that I used back then, so I made some new patterns. You print…

Activities, ADL, bimanual, buttoning, dressing, felt, fine-motor, OT, Product Review

I have Button Food and I’m ready to play

Kids love to play pretend, and playing with pretend food is one of the most fun pretend games. Felt food is fun to play with, but what if you could work on skills at the same time? It has been about a year and a half since I first posted…

Activities, activity printable, child, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, Free Printable, hand strengthening, OT, Printable, visual perceptual

Fabric Marble maze

I have seen fabric marble mazes in catalogs, and decided to make my own as I have a lot of fabric sitting around from other projects, and I am not too bad on a sewing machine. I was even helping with a children’s sewing class, so thought…

Activities, activity printable, bimanual, child, Clothespin Activities, elementary school age, felt, fine-motor, Free Printable, hand strengthening, OT, Paper, Printable, Scissor Cutting, spring

Frog clothespin animal for finger strength

I saw a picture of wooden frog pieces glued onto a clothespin on pinterest, and I thought that it was a great idea, and that I needed to make one for kids to play with when working with Clothespins and finger strengthening. I made the frog…