Easy to make and a fun way to work on crossing midline, line awareness, drawing skills, and imagination communication. 3 options are shown. To cross midline, you can clip them (great for digital strengthening) and place them on another side of ones body, you can also...
These are definitely worth doing. Upper body strengthening (including digits), coordination, and visual motor skills get a workout and it is so much fun! SUPPLIES: cardboard(we used a discarded box), scissors, and a coin (penny, nickel, or quarter). Colored paper and glue is optional. DIRECTIONS: Using the...
Most clients like popcorn and associate it with something positive. They also like the smell, so here is a way to incorporate visual motor skills, communication, and hand strengthening. Just have clients take a hole puncher and punch out each popcorn popcorn cut out. OPTION: If you...
This is a great way to show how shapes combined together can make up more complex shapes. Understanding how parts can add up to a whole is part of what makes this worth while. Of course, this is also wonderful for fine motor strength and coordination,...
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...
Be creative when making your outdoor obstacle course. These can be for kids of all ages and wheelchair friendly. Items you might use are: tires, pool noodles, tape, cups, chairs, mats, bolsters, kiddie pools, exercise balls, animals, balloons, watermelons and cookie cutters, pastels and paper, paint,...
Washing hands is a part of life, so give clients what ever tools they need to get the job done! We hope that the colorful pdf will be helpful. OPTIONS: Make it more fun for the sensory avoiders or those that have memory challenges with colored foam...
Unscrewing caps can be a challenge that is part of everyday life, so make it fun to practice. A wonderful way to build patience, hand strength, and confidence. OPTIONS: Try turning it into a game such as see how many you can screw and unscrew in...
Fingers folding paper and scissors snipping make this a wonderful fine motor therapy tool. This tool also works on thought organization and patterning skills. It can be fun to have clients work together on one large picture or their own individual creations. SUPPLIES: Colored paper, glue...
Here are a few colorful and printer friendly cards that help you lend visual support. Our clients deserve every tool we can make available to help them. This just might do the trick. Enjoy! Download the PDF for Picture Cards: Wheelchair...