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Pencil Obstacle Courses from School-OT

To work on pencil control, I created some Pencil Adventures. When I started making the pencil adventures, I was inspired by the pencil obstacle courses that were created by another Occupational Therapist, Jennifer Dodge. I now have her obstacle courses available here on Therapy Fun Zone, and I am so excited about it. These ones are hand drawn, and are very creative. Some of them work on erasing skills as well as writing skills. There are 13 different obstacle courses to work on accuracy with a pencil while making all different shapes. Two of these target speed as well.

I think that the creativity in these ones are great, and make them very fun. I hate to say it, but they are probably better than mine (although I wish I could digitize them and add color because I am a bit obsessed with that).

The obstacle courses include:

Pencil Control

Amusement Park: Stay in paths, loops, x’s, copy words, visual scanning
Explore the ancient cave ruins: Stay in paths, color in a space, write words in
abc order
Circus: Stay in paths, lots of loops
Mars: Stay in path, plan out a path, write initials
Day at the un-races: Slow down while tracing
Time Warp: Stay in paths, X’s inside circles
Jungle: Slow down, speed up: compare which was more accurate. Draw clock hands
Pirates: Stay in path, retrace, count & make X’s
Playground: “Lazy 8’s” – good bilateral/diagonal practice, Stay in paths
Skateboard: Stay in paths, controlled circles, in-hand rotation, drawing

Scissors

Berserk Robot: Fairly easy cutting across a page, with curves
Fabulous Art: Much more difficulty cutting spiraling in from edge to center of
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