Paper bags can be an easy way to get creativity rolling and keep the interest up. Fine motor skills and visual motor skills can be put to use decorating bags and then sharing what that animal or muppet might say. SUPPLIES: Bag and glue. All other...
Build-A-Square is a wonderful way to build skills with the pre-writing client. Line awareness is the key here. Visual attention to lines and understanding them along with visual-motor skills make this a solid task. OPTIONS: You can have colored paper strips that are parts of letters...
Fling them, flop them, step on them, balance them on your head or back of your hands and feet. Whatever you do, bean bags make you smile while you work on skills such as balancing, body awareness, strengthening, and ROM. OPTIONS: A bean bag activity that...
Butterflies, flowers, and flags are some of the easier art pieces to do with painters cards. Although this task is initially daunting, it can help develop cognitive and fine motor skills. SUPPLIES: Painters crards, glue, and paper for base. OPTIONS: For more complex pictures, try using a...
Painters cards can be used as lacing cards, book markers, or to make art with. This activity challenges the mind and is scary at first, but then clients get into it and can have fun. SUPPLIES: Painter cards, glue, scissors. DIRECTIONS: For doing a frog or other...
Being able to copy tasks such as drawing is a very important skill. Here are some ideas. Have your client duplicate what they are shown, this can be a calendar, pattern, or placing items in a row on a skewer stick. This can help with thought...
Make writing fun! When it is fun, the job gets done. SUPPLIES: colored paper squares, pencil, glue stick. OPTION: This can be a wonderful addition to an obstacle course. Other versions can be glueing flies to a web or strips on a tree. ST: Clients may glue down...
The bright colored paper encourages clients to try to cut circles without drawing them first. Imagining where a line should be, is a visual motor integration, visual perception, and memory task. SUPPLIES: scissors, bright colored paper, glue stick DIRECTIONS: 1. Cut and glue on grass. 2. Cut out...
These magic eggs are an inexpensive wonderful addition to any sensory room, reward for good behavior, or a comfort in the dark. They are durable and a great addition to my sensory summer camp. Special kids and adults need special things. These eggs are nice to...
This is an effective way to bring comfort to kids sensory systems as well as improve body awareness. Once you do it, they will most likely ask for it again. It is a very handy therapy tool in a therapy sensory summer camp setting. In...