There are so many options with the Gumball Machine. OT: Use it like a craft and place stickers, spangles, dots, or write in it. You can use it for alphabet learning if that is what you are working on. You can make a themed gumball machine...
Clients love these colorful artistic illustrations. 3 other games that you can do with them are: 1. Cut out playing cards (pictures) and place them in a deck face down. Take turns picking up a card and using it in a sentence. Who ever cannot make a...
There are many ways to incorporate ribbons & yarn into therapy. They can also be run thru a laminator and kids can follow them with their fingers. Here are some options: Yarn, ribbon, and party streamers work well for wall or floor visual-perceptual motor skill building....
Use the pictures and Task Box Idea List to help you create fun and effective task boxes. These work real well in the home setting and parents will easily get on board once you give them a box or two to get started. Elderly populations enjoy...
With directed drawing, there is a picture or someone breaking down the picture that the client will draw into small increments. With this activity, you may start with drawing the bottom 4 horizontal lines, then keep adding on until the picture is complete. This picture...
If you like this you may like the Bubble Wrap Painting: Fish activity. We added a little angel fish for you to demonstrate with. OT & PT: You may have kids stand on balance beam with fish page taped to the wall and see if they can...
You may wonder how can this be used for social/emotional or writing goals. Here is an example: Have kids view all 4 pages and identify what they feel as if they were the person in the picture. Let them come up with descriptive words such as;...
OT: This is great for beginning coloring skills. Two colors with the colored outline suggestion. The slightly colored border will not compete with the visual interest , but suggest attention to the page. ST: This can be used to write or paste in words that have...
These numbers may be good for beginning writing skills, but they are a super neat tool to have for an obstacle course too! We included a decorative and printer friendly version. OT: You may also have kids write the numbers around the number form. Yes these are...
A picture is sometimes better than words. This quick glance at grasp development can save you time in explaining to parents what comes next. Download the PDF for Pencil Grasp Development Pictures...