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Balloon Volleyball
Activities, adult, bimanual, child, Crossing Midline, elementary school age, games, gross motor, lower extremity strengthening, Motor Planning, motor planning, OT, preschool, PT, Range Of Motion, Sensory, teenage, toddler, Trunk strengthening, tween - middle school, upper extremity strengthening, visual perceptualBalloon Volleyball is such a simple game to play that is fun for young and old. It can be played standing up or sitting down, although when sitting down, someone will need to retrieve the balloon when it is out reach. I don’t think I need…

Using Sidewalk Chalk and Squirt Guns for Fine Motor
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 perceptualPlaying 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…

Kid-O-Bilibo
Activities, bimanual, child, elementary school age, equipment, favorite toys, hand strengthening, lower extremity strengthening, Motor Planning, OT, preschool, Sensory, toddler, upper extremity strengtheningThe Kid-O Bilibo is a toy that is the shape of a turtle shell. It reminds me of one of the large pieces of equipment that I use in therapy to balance on, but on a much smaller scale. It couldn’t be used exactly the same, but it has its own…

Toss Across
Activities, child, elementary school age, favorite toys, gross motor, Motor Planning, motor planning, OT, preschool, Product Review, PT, Reach and grasp, Trunk strengthening, upper extremity strengtheningToss Across is a tic tac toe game that is played by throwing bean bags at the squares which turns them over to reveal X’s and O’s.
You throw the bean bags, and if they hit the square on one side an X would be turned over, but if you…

Product Review: Bumbo Seat
equipment, gross motor, OT, Product ReviewHave you wondered if the Bumbo seat is useful enough to bother getting?
I can’t tell you specifically if it is worth it to you, but I can tell you how I have used it in therapy.
What it does:
It is a little bucket seat that holds…