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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, child, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, favorite toys, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Handwriting, lower extremity strengthening, Motor Planning, motor planning, OT, PT, Range Of Motion, Reach and grasp, Trunk strengthening, upper extremity strengthening, visual perceptual

Using Sidewalk Chalk and Squirt Guns for Fine Motor

Playing with sidewalk chalk can work on and use a lot of different skills during therapy, and is a good activity. Using short pieces of chalk forces the fingers to use a tripod grasp, by using the index, second finger, and thumb. Writing on…

Activities, ADL, buttoning, child, Craft, dressing, Duck Tape, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Motor Planning, OT, preschool, Recycled, toddler, visual perceptual

Button Push Ins

When working on buttoning skills, there is a progression of skill mastery. Pushing buttons or coins into a container is the first step. Putting coins into a piggy bank slot is the easiest, and then pushing buttons or coins into a recycled butter…

Activities, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, fine-motor, holiday, Motor Planning, OT, Paper, scissor cutting, season, Shapes, spring, visual perceptual

Flower Bouquet

Here is an activity to make a paper flower bouquet. I created some flower templates, but my daughter said that they were too hard, so I simplified them, and these ones are much easier. You could print the template one time onto card stock and…

Activities, child, elementary school age, favorite toys, fine-motor, hand strengthening, in-hand manipulation, OT, preschool, visual perceptual

Foam Mosaic Pictures

I have been brainstorming to come up with fun activities that work on strengthening the fingers for fine pinch and tripod grasp. Using pinch clips with craft foam pieces was a natural direction to go as they worked well with the sentence copying…

Activities, child, Clothespin Activities, elementary school age, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Handwriting, OT, visual perceptual

Sentence Memory for Copying

I have a group of three students who have trouble copying sentences from the board in class. When we did some practice during therapy, it turned out that the kids could not remember the words that they were trying to copy, so they were copying…

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. This is the…

Activities, adult, child, Clothespin Activities, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, fine-motor, games, hand strengthening, Handwriting, OT, scissor cutting, teenage, tween - middle school, visual perceptual

Mancala played with pom poms

I wanted to play a game with a student that would use spring clips in order to work on finger strengthening. I got little pom poms at michael’s (a craft store), and we played the game of Mancala . Her hands were quite tired by the…

Activities, bimanual, child, Craft, Craft, elementary school age, fine-motor, hand strengthening, Motor Planning, OT, Reach and grasp, season, spring, teenage, tween - middle school, upper extremity strengthening

Confetti Eggs

Confetti eggs are one of the most fun and best selling games at the fall festival at my kids’ school. The confetti eggs are regular raw eggs that are emptied, filled with confetti, and the hole is covered with tissue, and then painted. The…

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