This routine is proven to work very well with kids. It is the perfect behavioral structure for any obstacle course. Any school therapist can have this posted in their motor lab as a guide for other support staff. Therapists often provide this to parents as a supportive...
Change it up for the New Year by sharing goals via rolling a ball with the message on it. Our kids had a blast with it, and they demonstrated increased visual tracking as well as writing and communication skills. Printer friendly version included. DIRECTIONS: Cut out the...
This is a wonderful crossing midline task along with reflex integration. Directions: Place the hearts in two vertical rows allowing space for a client to crawl between. Next have the client get on all fours and roll a medicine ball back and forth between the hearts...
This handout should give you many ideas as to what you can use to provide useful matching challenges. Tip: With car emblems, just grab pictures from the internet and then match them to pictures of cars or descriptions of them. I used the car emblems with...
Happiness is a smile surrounded by color. Making a circle and square fun to explore and a shape worth remembering is important and is often an OT goal. ST: You may choose to use this by finding items around the room that are shaped like a...
Locating letter's in a group of other letters is a good skill to work on. This can help the visually challenged, working memory skills, and visual-motor integration. Download the PDF for Circle.Trace.Count. a,b,o...
You never know when you need a set of footprints, so here they are. We included additional pictures to provide more footprint related ideas. Download the PDF for Footprints...
Balancing fun is what this is. Building body awareness and visual-motor skills and so much more. Speech Option: Place index cards on the beam and when the student walks on top of them, they will have to do a move, pose, read a word, that is...
Try introducing this like Follow The Leader. Kids love to imitate and learn to lead this way. Here are 21 ways to use a line for therapy. Brave summer camp OT: You can even trace your finger up the crease of a cactus. Go slowly. It is...
If you like Mr. Square we know you will like Mr. Circle as well. Bright motivating colors can spur on therapy imagination! Here are some ideas: PT: Make a square themed obstacle course or pick up as many squares as Mr. Square wants. Stack them and...