Stencils are fun and packed with fine motor skill building. We figured that you can make a heart, but if you wanted a shamrock it might be a bit tougher so we added it for your printable. OPTIONS: Clients often build more skills by learning how...
Rainbow handprints are always in style. With this activity, clients get to trace their hand (or foot),draw parallel lines across the page, and then color. It may sound simple, but it really does help with visual-perception, body awareness, visual motor, and cognition skills. OPTIONS: You can...
This is a fun way to get writing, bilateral integration, and thinking skills worked on together. SUPPLIES: White paper for a base, colored paper squares, glue stick, and a pencil. DIRECTIONS: Have clients take colored squares of paper and cut them into smaller squares by folding them...
Pool noodles are a wonderful accessory to any therapy gym program. They are bendable, bright colored the perfect size for balancing on. Here are some other ideas: =Split noodle down the middle and roll marbles down the center, make it a race and see visual skills...
Bowling outdoors or indoors can be fun for clients of all ages. A wonderful way to increase stamina, improve mood, positive energy, social skills, visual-motor and balance skills. You can try carrying a weighted ball and run weaving between the bowling pins. OPTIONS: You can tape lines...
The clients who love Monster's Inc., will enjoy this game. Speech therapists enjoy using it in classrooms and kids enjoy using the game at home while improving skills. Can you guess who might be behind the door? Mastermind (adult favorite) and Clue (pre-teen favorite) are two other...
This activity is rich with visual-perceptual and visual-motor skills. Look at how the kids are asked to continue the lines for the tree trunks. This alone makes this therapy craft tool worth the time. We had the tree tops already pre cut because we were...
This activity can be presented several different ways. You can read a book to get everyone in the spirit or have kids use a keyboard to write down words or phrases on the theme and print and cut them out to paste on to their...
This is a speech favorite! Clients enjoy placing the items into the correct pocket on the wall. This takes the "boring" out of therapy. You can do many different versions for different themes, such as love, patriotic, and real versus unreal. OT: This can be adapted to...
All you need is painter's tape and you can put down your Agility Ladder. This is a must with sports training or can be adapted between parallel bars. Paper and tape is all you need to create an obstacle course area in your gym. Here are...