This therapy activity works on many skills including, visual-perceptual(several different areas including saccades), visual-motor, spacial awareness, patterning, and grasp skills. This therapy tool works for all ages and usually becomes one of the favorites. SUPPLIES: Black paper, colored paper squares, glue, and white/yellow crayon is optional...
Obstacle courses should be changed frequently to continue to build skills, use a variety of muscles, and build a variety of neurological pathways. If there is a particular challenge it is fine to keep it again in your next course until better mastery is achieved....
Directed drawing is a wonderful way to build skills. It can build visual attention, visual-perceptual, visual-motor, visual memory, thought organization, body awareness, attention span, social and grasp development skills. DIRECTIONS: Be slow and deliberate with presenting each line that is drawn. Demonstrate and say what you...
Just a reminder to keep on the lookout for creepy crawling creatures. Kids will give more visual attention to this than many activities that you come up with, and they can facilitate great conversations! OPTIONS: Earthworms, chickens, goats, miniature horses, guinea pigs, and bearded dragons are...
This game is always a hit with kids, especially the middle schoolers. Fine motor, turn taking, and visual motor skills are some of the great skill benefits of this game....
Obstacle courses are so much more appealing than just doing moves and counting from 1 to 10. Enjoy making your own course, and using some ideas from this one. If you like this you will definitely like the eBooks on obstacle courses found here at Brilliant...
This is a wonderful visual-perceptual and visual motor tool. Kids just love the colorful fanciful pieces. They are easy to put away and pull out, colorful, and have a nice proprioceptive touch element to them due to the magnetic pieces....
Here are 2 desert inspired coloring pages to help build visual-motor skills. OPTION: You can also do this as a directed coloring task. All you have to do is call out what color each item should be colored or not colored. This way you can help...
This is a fun social visual cognitive skill building activity. Some specific skills this addresses are: sensory discrimination, visual processing, thought organization, working memory, writing, body awareness, communication, receptive language, pragmatic language, and following directions (receptive). DIRECTIONS: Have clients sit around in a circle and have 2...
Folding Fish is a wonderful way to work on speech as well as fine motor strength, coordination, wrist AROM, and visual perceptual skills. Kids do better with a model (especially for drawing the fish body) and will improve dexterity and visual tracking up and down...