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In hand manipulation skills using broken crayons

In order to work on in-hand manipulation skills with some kids, I decided to use little pieces of broken off crayon. I had them hold two crayons at the same time, one in their palm, and one in their fingers. Then I had them draw a shape…

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Using Paper Battleship to Work on Pencil Control

Last week I posted about regular (and mini) battleship games to work on fine motor skills and visual scanning, but have you ever played paper battleship to work on fine motor and writing skills? Paper battleship is played the same way as regular…

Activities, activity printable, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, folding template, Free Printable, Handwriting, Materials, OT, Paper, pencil template, Printable, teenage, tween - middle school, visual perceptual

Cootie Catchers re-visited because I love them

Cootie catchers are great fun for kids to play, and they lend themselves very well to the learning environment. I use them in order to have kids work on writing within small designated spaces, and they can be used to work on counting and review.…

Activities, activity printable, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, Free Printable, Handwriting, OT, pencil template, Printable

New Writing paper, “Mud Paper” to get letters stuck in the mud

Karen over at Miss Awesomeness uses Lava Paper that she thought up and that I made for her. I have tried the Lava Paper with some of my kids as well, but many of my students had trouble with the “complex” concept of Lava. I know lava is…

Activities, activity printable, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, Free Printable, Handwriting, OT, pencil template, Printable

New Pencil Adventures with halloween, race car letters and more

I finally completed another set of pencil adventures. These have been partially done for ages, and I made a big push to finish them completely. There are 7 of them, and include: The Cafeteria, Hawaiian Vacation, Ski Vacation, Halloween Haunted…

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

Hang Man for writing practice

I love to play hang man in therapy because it motivates kids, and they can practice writing their letters and focus on getting the letters on the line, and forming them properly. I usually just play on a blank piece of paper, but I thought that…

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Lava Worm Paper a la (B)e(LO)n(G) OT

Karen over at (B)e(LO)n(G) OT has been drawing Lava paper and using it to practice writing, so I made some for her in photoshop, and have been using it as well. Karen has a couple of posts about using her paper, and I use it in the same way. When…

child, elementary school age, fine-motor, Handwriting, OT, visual perceptual

Pencil Obstacle Course

Very frequently, I draw a path for kids to follow with their pencil. I often draw animals beside the path to make it fun and tell them they have to stay on the path so that the lion won’t get them. I have wanted to have some fun ready…

Activities, adult, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, hand strengthening, OT, teenage, tween - middle school, visual perceptual

Coloring at a higher level

Coloring pictures is good for hand strengthening, and visual motor skills. I have some coloring pages that will challenge anyone’s fine motor skills and visual motor/visual-perceptual skills. These are called altair designs, and I have a book…

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