Coloring and Cutting Heart Bugs and Caterpillars
Last year I made some really cute heart butterflies, and wanted to increase it by having other bugs to make too. They make cute little valentine love bugs. The bugs are very similar to the heart...
View ArticleMunchy Ball Motor Game
I have officially named my tennis ball head Munchy Ball, and I guess he is like a frog because he likes to eat little bugs. I made a little game to incorporate visual motor skills, motor planning, fine...
View ArticleDifferent sets of Munchy Balls
I posted a few weeks ago about the games that I have made to play with Munchy Balls (tennis ball heads). Most people make their own balls, but many people would rather have them ready to go, so I have...
View ArticleColor matching velcro block fine motor toy
I love all of the recycling activities that the Recycling OT does, but I am not as good at saving items to recycle. I used an empty tennis ball can, and put colored duct tape stripes on it in the...
View ArticleHome Made Infinity Loop Toy
An Infinity Loop is a ball run that goes around and around, and you have to keep moving it to keep the ball on the run. Its beginning is its end and it just keeps going. I have quickly and easily made...
View ArticleMore Kinetic Sand Fun
I posted about Kinetic Sand last year after I saw it at the AOTA conference and fell in love with how fun it was (you can read that post here). I did not have any of my own at that time, and it was...
View ArticleKeeping Active in the Summer: Tennis
It is Summer and the kids are out of school. During school, the kids have recess and P.E. most days so they stay relatively active and work on many skills during school. In the Summer, if left to...
View ArticleSwimming for Letters
I played with foam letters with the kids in school where we rolled the dice and then fed the letters to the Munchy Ball, and now that it is summer, we took the game to the pool so that we could swim...
View ArticleFishing for letters
To work on a combination of skills, I made some fish with letters on them, added some pipe cleaner to make it metallic, and made some fishing poles out of pipe cleaner and magnets. Fishing is a great...
View ArticleFine Motor Coordination Speed
We talk a lot about doing fine motor activities and there are a lot of them available. Another aspect of motor ability though is the speed of the motor response. I can see a student’s motor response...
View ArticleFine Motor Skills With Torn Paper Pumpkins
It is Autumn, so it’s time for us to make pumpkins. I love having kids tear paper because it really makes them work hard with their fingers and work on those fine motor skills. I have had kids cut out...
View ArticleFun Fine Motor Spider Webs
I love the look of spider webs, and they are such a beautiful work of art. Here are some spider webs made out of pipe cleaner and popsicle sticks. You place the popsicle sticks (or other pipe cleaners)...
View ArticleBuild a Catapult
We did a craft this week that was a build your own catapult. We made it from a catapult kit, and it involved placing pegs in holes and putting the pieces together. It would be a great activity for...
View ArticleCatapult Birds
Last week we made catapults out of clothespins, so this week we used those catapults to play a game and work on writing. I made a target to shoot pom poms at, and use the pom poms as birds that we...
View ArticleSnow Man Dressing
I saw a cute little snow man mentioned on a teacher’s site, and I thought it would be perfect to use in therapy. The original source of the picture was from here, but I have made my own to cut out,...
View ArticleRecycled Egg Carton Garden Games
Pinching small objects is great for working on fine motor skills, so when I saw this cute carrot harvest idea on Powerful Mothering. I immediately thought it would be perfect for some of the kids that...
View ArticleSugar Bugs Clothespin Game
I have been meaning to make a clothespin game with bugs and their legs (the clothespins) for a while, and have just finished it. It combines two of the kids’ favorite things, sugar and bugs. This game...
View ArticleFun foam on the Mirror
One of my absolute favorite activities with young kids is playing with fun foam shapes on a mirror. It works well in the bathtub, shower, or on a glass door too. You spay the glass surface with water...
View ArticleClothespin Flower Game
It is time for spring and flowers, so how about a new clothespin game where you have to build the flower petal by petal and use the clothespin to hold the petals onto the flower. There are several...
View ArticleMake Your Own Squishy Ball
Have you made your own squishy stress ball? You use a balloon (actually several) and fill them with different materials to squish and squeeze. You can fill them with flour, play dough, beans, beads,...
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