We got the worms from the Dollar Store and placed them inside a empty water bottle. The worms move in and out of the water bottle with just the right amount of tugging. This is a clinic favorite! You can time a client or have...
This is a wonderful visual-motor activity. SUPPLIES: Fruit container (Costco has them), Acrylic paint or permanent markers to make the trail that you want the fuzz ball to travel on, and a fuzz ball. We just poured the paint trail on to the container, let it dry,...
This is an easy painting task to keep messes at bay. Two or three drops of paint is all you need to make a flower. This activity also helps with visual spacial planning and a better understanding of the shape of a circle. SUPPLIES: Fork, acrylic/craft...
Being resourceful is an important form on intelligence. Understanding how different colors can be put together to form a picture is scary at first, but then clients start talking more and become absorbed in the task. Before you know it, everyone has something that they...
Kids like to make animals and helping them understand how parts come together to make an animal have a great cognitive benefit. SUPPLIES: =Small cupcake bake cups =Construction paper for legs, ears, tail, and eyes =1 Fuzzball for a nose =Glue stick [you may want a drop of glue for...
Multi sensory activities are better activities for young and old. SUPPLIES = Bubble wrap, paint, colored pencils DIRECTIONS: With this activity, you place a small amount of paint in a pie tin and then take a piece of bubble wrap (these are free if you check with...
This is another fine tool for hand strengthening, communication, vision(better than a Brock string for those little guys), eye-hand coordination and cognition skills. If you are working on energy conservation have client punch holes and cut plate earlier, then thread and string beads later so...
This activity is a winner. As you can tell, it allows for individuality and skill building all in one shot. It can also work for grandparents day! Supplies: -1 Paper Plate -Green & White Paint (or just light yellow and/or light green paint) -scissors -1 marker (for writing) - pipe cleaner...
Play doh is a wonderful way to keep kids busy at the dinner table or as a way for grandparents to engage together with a wiggly one. Whatever setting it is used in, it helps build fine motor, hand strengthening, and visual motor skills. The texture...
Why not let kids do 1 leg balance stands on their own foot prints? Use spangles or fuzz balls and yarn to increase visual interest and sensory input to bare feet. Obstacle Course: For safety make sure the hand & foot prints are secured properly to...