feeding skills Archives - Therapy Fun Zone

Posts

The right bite feeding therapy tool

How many kids do you work with that try to stuff a whole huge cracker into their mouth? How many times have you been bitten when working on taking bites of food (never for me, but I have been bitten doing other oral motor activities). Ark…

Activities, ADL, bimanual, child, cooking, Craft, elementary school age, fall, feeding, fine-motor, Food, Materials, Motor Planning, Nature, OT, season, Sensory, sensory motor, summer, visual perceptual, winter

Pine Cone Bird Feeder and Spreading with a Knife

Spreading can be a challenge for many kids, so here is a fun activity that helps practice. You use a pine cone and attach a wire or string to the top of it so that you can hang it once it is finished. You then spread peanut butter all over the…

ADL, feeding, oral motor, OT

Vibration For Oral Motor Stimulation

I am seeing a little girl who enjoys eating, but she does not yet move her tongue to the side (tongue lateralization) in order to move her food around in her mouth. I will often use vibration in the mouth to stimulate more tongue and cheek movement.…

Activities, child, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, Food, OT, Paint, preschool, Reach and grasp, Sensory, sensory motor, toddler

Spaghetti Painting for Sensory Problems

I have a few kids that I see who do not like food. I like to use food as a play tool in order to help make food their friend because they need to accept being around food, so using spaghetti noodles as a painting tool is a fun activity. Some…

Activities, ADL, bimanual, child, Craft, elementary school age, feeding, fine-motor, Food, hand strengthening, OT, play dough, preschool, Reach and grasp, Sensory, toddler

Peanut Butter Playdough Recipe:

Playing with playdoh is fun, and if you can eat the playdoh when you are done, it can be even more fun. It is also a good way to play with food for kids that have problems with eating. Ingredients: 1 cup of smooth/creamy peanut butter 2…

Activities, child, feeding, oral motor, OT, toddler, Trunk strengthening, upper extremity strengthening

Why bouncing is good for eating skills

When talking about oral-motor skills and eating, you don’t usually think immediately of bouncing on a ball as a treatment technique. Well, think again. Bouncing on a large therapy ball, either supported or unsupported, stimulates muscle co-contractions.…