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Activities, adult, child, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, fine-motor, games, hand strengthening, in-hand manipulation, Motor Planning, OT, play dough, Reach and grasp, sensory motor, teenage, tween - middle school, upper extremity strengthening, visual perceptual

Play Doh Connect Four

Play Doh Connect Four is a fun activity that was created by Marie Logan, an Occupational Therapist with UAB Pediatric Neuromotor Clinic. This activity is a great way to combine the benefits of using play doh, and the fun of playing connect…

Activities, ADL, adult, bimanual, child, christmas, Craft, Craft, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, fine-motor, holiday, in-hand manipulation, Materials, Motor Planning, OT, ribbon, scissor cutting, season, teenage, tween - middle school, tying, visual perceptual, winter

Ribbon Christmas Tree

This ribbon Christmas tree activity is the most awesome therapy activity ever. It incorporates practicing tying into a nice craft that looks beautiful when it is done. The kids all loved it, and they were all very proud of what they had accomplished.…

Activities, bimanual, child, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, featured guest, fine-motor, games, hand strengthening, Materials, Motor Planning, OT, Paint, Paper, Range Of Motion, Reach and grasp, Trunk strengthening, upper extremity strengthening, visual perceptual

Sticker Squash Game

This is a game that was submitted by a therapist, Marie Logan, OTR/L. It is a simple game that is played on paper, and it is similar to the game Battleship. During the game, you work on eye hand coordination and hand positioning, challenge…

Activities, child, elementary school age, favorite toys, fine-motor, games, Motor Planning, OT, visual perceptual

Rush Hour Junior

I know that many therapists love and use the game Rush Hour to work on some skills. I have a tendency to dislike playing these types of games myself as I don't really like the challenge, but this Rush Hour Jr Game edition is easier to play,…

Activities, activity printable, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, pencil template, Printable, scissor cutting, visual perceptual

New Pencil Obstacle Courses

The Pencil Obstacle Courses are such fun, and are what spurred me on to create the Pencil adventures. Now there are new obstacle courses that include some hole punching and cutting with scissors. These are created by Jennifer Dodge, who…

Activities, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, Free Printable, Handwriting, OT, pencil template, Printable, visual perceptual

Stuck in The Mud Letter Sizes

School is just starting in my neck of the woods, so with the beginning of the school year, it's time to start my therapy kids off by making sure that they are on target with their letter sizes. I love using mud paper, and have several different…

Activities, activity printable, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, folding template, Free Printable, Handwriting, Materials, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, Printable, Scissor Cutting, tween - middle school, visual perceptual

Paper Helicopter

It is always fun for kids to be able to take home a fun item that they created, and the paper helicopters are a nice finished project. They are pretty quick to make, but you can have the kids do more things to them before they are finished.…

Activities, child, elementary school age, Handwriting, OT, Sensory, visual perceptual

A Cute Car Mat T-Shirt

I love having kids drive on roads on the ground to help them develop their sense of space and direction and to help with following lines, which is all a precursor for writing. I use road writing lines to help kids who love cars learn their letters,…

therapy fun zone - practice writing and cutting with flower petals

Activities, activity printable, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, Free Printable, Handwriting, OT, Paper, pencil template, preschool, Printable, scissor cutting, Scissor Cutting, spring, visual perceptual

Flower Writing Lines

Spring is here and it is time to brighten things up with flower activities. I created a craft to draw on the flower petals, cut them out, and then glue them onto a paper. The petals have light lines to trace with zig-zags, loops, lines, and…

Activities, child, elementary school age, OT, preschool, Sensory, toddler, visual perceptual

Sensory Search in Rice and Beans

An activity that uses the tactile and visual motor sensory systems is to search for items in a box of rice and beans. You get a small box (shoe box size or larger) and put in some dry rice and beans so that it is about half way full. Then…

Activities, bimanual, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, games, hand strengthening, Handwriting, Munchy Ball, OT, sensory motor, upper extremity strengthening, visual perceptual

Multi Position Writing Activity

This week I wanted to incorporate some targeted fine motor and hand strengthening in our sessions, and then follow up with some writing tasks. I used the foam letter squares that I made for the pool writing activity. I spread all of the foam…

Activities, child, Craft, elementary school age, fall, fine-motor, Motor Planning, OT, pipe cleaner, Reach and grasp, Recycled, recycled, spring, visual perceptual

Recycled Egg Carton Garden Games

Pinching small objects is great for working on fine motor skills, so when I saw this cute carrot harvest idea on Powerful Mothering. I immediately thought it would be perfect for some of the kids that I work with. I wanted to give it more of…

Activities, child, christmas, elementary school age, fine-motor, Free Printable, Handwriting, OT, Paper, pencil template, Printable, visual perceptual

Gingerbread House Decorating; real and pretend

I love decorating gingerbread houses, and it works on some great skills with spreading the frosting and placing the candy. I will often do a simplified version making graham cracker houses instead of gingerbread, and love to use it as a great…

Activities, activity printable, child, christmas, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, Free Printable, Handwriting, holiday, Motor Planning, OT, Printable, scissor cutting, Scissor Cutting, season, visual perceptual, winter

Snow Man Dressing

I saw a cute little snow man mentioned on a teacher’s site, and I thought it would be perfect to use in therapy. The original source of the picture was from here, but I have made my own to cut out, color, and dress your snowman. There…

Activities, activity printable, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, games, Halloween, Handwriting, OT, pencil template, Printable, visual perceptual

Creature / Monster Drawing and Writing

Lately I have been wanting to do my sentence memory copying activity with the kids that I am working with, and decided to modify it a bit to add monsters / creatures. I have used the monster drawing type of activity that I did in the Roll a…

Activities, bimanual, child, Craft, Duck Tape, elementary school age, fine-motor, Halloween, Motor Planning, OT, pipe cleaner, visual perceptual

Fun Fine Motor Spider Webs

I love the look of spider webs, and they are such a beautiful work of art. Here are some spider webs made out of pipe cleaner and popsicle sticks. You place the popsicle sticks (or other pipe cleaners) in cross patterns and duct tape them together.…

Activities, bouncy balls, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, games, hand strengthening, in-hand manipulation, Motor Planning, Munchy Ball, OT, sensory motor, visual perceptual

Fine Motor Coordination Speed

We talk a lot about doing fine motor activities and there are a lot of them available. Another aspect of motor ability though is the speed of the motor response. I can see a student’s motor response speed when we play the game with the balls…

Activities, activity printable, bimanual, elementary school age, fine-motor, Free Printable, games, hand strengthening, Handwriting, Motor Planning, Munchy Ball, OT, Paper, pipe cleaner, Printable, sensory motor, visual perceptual

Fishing for letters

To work on a combination of skills, I made some fish with letters on them, added some pipe cleaner to make it metallic, and made some fishing poles out of pipe cleaner and magnets. Fishing is a great way to work on bimanual hand skills, fine…

Activities, activity printable, child, Craft, Duck Tape, elementary school age, fine-motor, folding template, Free Printable, Handwriting, OT, Paper, pencil template, Printable, visual perceptual

Making Tents and Teepees with Writing Lines

When playing with the Munchy Ball with a young boy, we worked on making some houses. I tried to have him make a woven stick Teepee such as the one made by Timbernook, but our ground was too hard and we could not pierce it with sticks well enough…

Activities, adult, child, Clothespin Activities, elementary school age, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Handwriting, OT, teenage, Trunk strengthening, tween - middle school, upper extremity strengthening, visual perceptual

Can we practice handwriting without a pencil, please?

Let me start by saying that I'm probably one of the few pediatric occupational therapists who needs help with arts and crafts! No, seriously! I am so thankful for the many wonderful websites and blogs whose authors share some of the most…

Activities, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, games, Munchy Ball, OT, preschool, Recycled, visual perceptual

Munchy Ball's Adventures in Flight

Our Munchy Ball has been going on many adventures, and he is such a great toy to do so much different pretend play with. Recently, Munchy Ball wanted to go flying, which sounded like a great adventure and we just had to figure out how to make…