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Perler Beads

Perler beads are tiny plastic beads that you place on little spikes on a board in order to make a design. They are quite small, so they require precision and care to get them placed on the design board. Once the design is finished, you then…

Activities, child, elementary school age, equipment, OT, Sensory, sensory motor, teenage, tween - middle school

Make a weighted notebook

You often hear therapists make a recommendation to incorporate some heavy work into a student's day, and to make it natural. Most older students have textbooks that are heavy as a natural heavy work task, but you may have some kids that you…

Activities, child, elementary school age, Free Printable, Handwriting, OT, pencil template, Printable, teenage, tween - middle school

Handwriting Self Check

Kids make a lot of changes with their handwriting legibility when they are aware of the expectation and know that they will need to fix what the teacher can't read or that doesn't meet the teacher's expectation. For those kids, it makes sense…

Activities, child, elementary school age, OT, Sensory, teenage, tween - middle school

Make your own weighted lap pads

Jack is in Kindergarten and during circle time, he often gets up, wanders the room, and pulls things out of the bins. He has trouble staying seated in the group when he is not doing an activity. Jack is working on learning to wait and take his…

Activities, activity printable, child, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, Paper, pencil template, Printable

Using push pins to develop fine motor skills

Holding small objects is a benefit of good fine motor skills, and to work on developing and perfecting those fine motor skills, you can use small objects as a tool. Push pins or thumb tacks that you would use in a cork board are usually a perfect…

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Current Monthly Specials

July I see the time to eat ice cream so ice cream activities are on sale until the end of July. They are all super cute and fun to work with. You can find the sale items in the shops including here on therapy fun zone, and on therapy fun store. The…

Activities, child, elementary school age, Gait, games, gross motor, hand strengthening, lower extremity strengthening, Motor Planning, motor planning, OT, PT, Trunk strengthening, tween - middle school, upper extremity strengthening, visual perceptual

Using a Water Gun to Propel a Ball

Water guns are a great finger strengthening tool, and when it gets hot, water is a welcome part of therapy. I had used water guns to fill up a cup with water and make a ping pong ball rise. I was trying to think of other activities that use…

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, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, OT

Fine Motor Skills - Why Ask Why?

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…

Activities, bimanual, child, Chopstick activities, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Handwriting, Munchy Ball, OT, sensory motor, tween - middle school

Search and Find Fine Motor

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…

Activities, child, Craft, elementary school age, OT, Paper, scissor cutting

New Scissor Skills Book

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…

Activities, bimanual, Craft, Craft, fine-motor, Motor Planning, OT, scissor cutting, Shapes, visual perceptual

Scissor Cutting Shapes: Pizza

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…

Activities, activity printable, Animals, bimanual, child, Clothespin Activities, elementary school age, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, Paper, Printable

Fine Motor Pet Feeding

Animals are great fun for kids and can make it motivating to work on skills. I don't have any real animals to work with, so I made some pet store animals for the kids to feed, use clothespins, and practice some writing. The activity is simple…

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…

accessibility, ADL, adult, OT, Product Review, Range Of Motion

UnBuckle Me

At Therapy Fun Zone, we focus a lot on activities for children that develop their skills. However, I was recently contacted by an Occupational Therapist, who has invented a new product to help adults who struggle to unbuckle their child’s…

Activities, bimanual, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Motor Planning, OT, preschool, scissor cutting, visual perceptual

Slowing Down With Scissor Cutting

I recently was doing an evaluation, and the student was just snipping at the paper as fast and furiously as she could. When I tried to help her position the paper or the scissors better, she just pushed me away and kept snipping. She gave…

Activities, adult, bimanual, child, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, games, gross motor, lower extremity strengthening, Motor Planning, motor planning, OT, preschool, PT, Range Of Motion, Sensory, teenage, toddler, Trunk strengthening, tween - middle school, upper extremity strengthening, visual perceptual

Perler Beads

Make a weighted notebook

Handwriting Self Check

Make your own weighted lap pads

Using push pins to develop fine motor skills

Current Monthly Specials

Using a Water Gun to Propel a Ball

Fun Ice Cream Clothespin Game

Fine Motor Skills - Why Ask Why?

Search and Find Fine Motor

New Scissor Skills Book

Scissor Cutting Shapes: Pizza

Fine Motor Pet Feeding

Make Button Flowers

UnBuckle Me

Slowing Down With Scissor Cutting

Balloon Volleyball

Rainbow Fine Motor Activities with Q-tip Painting

Using the Button Sandwich for Sequencing and Writing

10 Fun Ways to Incorporate Writing into Therapy

Feed the Animal Fine Motor Activity

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