20 Sep Bubble Horizontal & Vertical Lines
Bubble Letters and Lines are fabulous especially when you make them into rainbows. Kids love how each color adds to the rainbow effect. Download PDF for Bubble Horizontal & Vertical Lines...
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20 Sep Apple Turkeys
These comical turkeys are fun to make and are wonderful for working on speech skills. Supplies: -Gum Drops -Tooth picks -Apple -Candy Corn Tips: Talk about how to plan where the feathers and eyes should go and then see how your client approaches the task....
20 Sep Sensory Bottles
Sensory bottles are fun to make and can be a calming tool. All you need is: 1. A clear empty bottle 2. Distilled water 3. Glycerin (available at pharmacy stores) 4. Glitter flakes, sequins, light plastic beads, or other sparkly things that are light enough to float around 5. Some lace,...
20 Sep Pin Poke Christmas Pictures
This is more fun than it looks! Kids do one picture, turn it over, feel the paper bumps, and then ask to do another one. SUPPLIES: A piece of cardboard or cork board to work on, and a push pin. Directions: Place your paper pattern on top...
20 Sep Gross Motor Mirroring
If you want a child to engage in challenging motor movements, it is important to demonstrate them as well as do it along with them so that they can experience the full understanding of the movements. Energy makes energy so enjoy the wonderful world of movement....
20 Sep iPAD: Runner Boy
Runner Boy is a great game for line awareness, visual-processing, and visual-motor skill building. OPTIONS: Letter School is another app that is highly recommended by therapists. WARNING: Beware that electronics should be limited especially for kids under 5 years of age....
20 Sep 8 Quick & Delicious Recipes
Cooking is wonderful for all age. It is sensory stimulating, fun, dangerous, and full of cognitive and physical benefits. Here are 8 quick recipes to hand out to clients who lose interest in cooking for themselves. NOTE: We did leave out some obvious ones such as a...
20 Sep Candy Cane Snowman
This task covers a multitude of skills and provides great sensory input (smell, touch, tip prehension, taste, visual, and auditory). Some of the skills it utilizes are grasp, proprioception, strength, problem-solving, impulse control, and it can work on sensory avoidance. SUPPLIES we used: marshmallows, red licorice...
19 Sep Ribbon Stick Ornament
This is what you want to do with kids that need to learn about tying their shoes. It is the first part of the task, tying a knot and it is wonderful because of the repetition component of this task. SUPPLIES: Ribbon pieces, tongue depressor stick...
19 Sep I Spy 3D
What a wonderful easy to make activity. This works on visual perception, visual processing, visual memory, cognition, grasp (if you time client placing them in front of themselves and picking them back up), visual attention to a task, writing (if they write down each object...