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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, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, fall, fine-motor, Free Printable, Handwriting, holiday, in-hand manipulation, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, pencil template, Printable, scissor cutting, Scissor Cutting, season, Shapes, Thanksgiving, visual perceptual

Scissor Cutting Turkey Template

Making Turkeys for Thanksgiving is a great time to incorporate a lot of skills into your therapy session. I love that the feathers are perfect for writing on and being able to create a thankful craft. Cutting with scissors is a skill that works…

Activities, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Handwriting, in-hand manipulation, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, scissor cutting, Shapes, visual perceptual

Coloring and Cutting Shapes for a Picture

For this activity, we are incorporating very simple coloring and cutting of easy shapes. Then you can put those shapes together to make a pretty picture to take home. Two simple designs to choose from are a flower or a butterfly. With…

Activities, child, christmas, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, holiday, OT, Paper, visual perceptual, winter

Cute Christmas Tree Crafts

I have had a sad lack of holiday crafts here, so here is a quick post to show some pictures of some cute Christmas tree crafts that I saw in a classroom today. The first one is made out of painted paper plates and then decorated. The…

Activities, activity printable, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fall, fine-motor, Free Printable, Handwriting, Materials, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, Printable, scissor cutting, Scissor Cutting, season, Thanksgiving, visual perceptual

Turkey cutting time of year

It is the time of year to cut out and make turkeys. I did a few turkeys last week, and will be doing more this week. Check out last year’s post on these Turkeys to get the templates. Save

Activities, activity printable, adult, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, folding template, Free Printable, Handwriting, in-hand manipulation, Materials, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, pencil template, Printable, scissor cutting, Scissor Cutting, Shapes, spring, teenage, tween - middle school, visual perceptual

Paper folded flowers

I like to work on many skills within the same activity, and these folded flowers definitely do that. I discovered these via pinterest, and they are originally on Whimsical World of Laura Bird. I often have kids that need to work on…

Activities, activity printable, bimanual, child, Craft, elementary school age, fall, fine-motor, Free Printable, Halloween, Materials, OT, Paper, Printable, scissor cutting, Scissor Cutting, season, visual perceptual

A cute skeleton activity

I found a blog post about printing out a skeleton onto magnet paper and then putting it together onto a magnetic door. Here is a cute Skelly the Skeleton from the toymaker.com, to print out and use in Halloween activities. I think that I…

bimanual, Craft, Craft, fine-motor, folding template, in-hand manipulation, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, scissor cutting, visual perceptual

Paper Toys Website

With higher level kids, I look for activities that will challenge them mentally as well as physically. Paper folding can be challenging visual-perceptually as well as the difficulty with fine motor and manipulating the paper in the right way. …

Activities, bimanual, child, christmas, Craft, Craft, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Handwriting, holiday, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, scissor cutting, visual perceptual

Making Christmas Trees with torn paper

I did this activity on Monday. I used the christmas tree cutting template that I made. We cut out the shapes and glued them in place on one side of a piece of paper. On the other side of the paper, I made lines to write on. My client…

Activities, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, Handwriting, in-hand manipulation, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, scissor cutting, Shapes, visual perceptual

Scissor cutting designs -- car

I have created more scissor cutting designs. Have the client color it in, cut out the shapes and glue it all together. Here is a car design. Here is the link to the PDF finished sample. here is the PDF for the cut out temp…

Activities, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fall, fine-motor, in-hand manipulation, OT, Paper, season, spring, visual perceptual

Tissue Tree

Start with drawing a tree trunk and some bare branches. You can do this beforehand, or you can have the client do this. You then need to have little squares of tissue paper cut. We used green, but you could use fall colors, or be creative…

Activities, child, Craft, Duck Tape, elementary school age, fine-motor, Motor Planning, OT, preschool, Sensory, visual perceptual

I Spy Bags

I spy bags are fabric bags with a vinyl see-through window in them. They are then filled with a filler such as plastic pellets, and small objects are placed inside and sealed up. A child then has to move around the inside pieces to find see…

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