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 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...
Pronoun Fun lets you make many fun sentences that you can say or write just by putting the picture cards together to help sentence generation. Options: Try making social stories with the colorful cards or have clients act out a card that they see on the...
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...
This activity can be adapted for a parent, grandparent, or anyone special. Supplies: Light blue paper (butcher paper), pastels or paints and brushes, water to rinse brushes. Directions: =Have kids type or write out all the words except "DONUT". =Draw out the rings. (donuts) =Color around the inside ring of...
Planning how space is used on a page is an important skill. This activity helps with learning how to plan, fine motor control, direction following, and visual motor skills. Activities that have purpose built into them are wonderful. Enjoy! Directions: -Draw out cup. (Trace a stencil to...
Stencils are wonderful tools to improve fine motor control, digital strength, while providing some proprioception. OPTIONS: To emphasize upper body strengthening, have client do it on a wall rather than using a table top. PT: Have client place paper on wall to do stenciling and have them...
Paper plate crafts are wonderful for folding, cutting, and color/painting skills. Owl SUPPLIES: Markers, orange paper, scissors, stapler DIRECTIONS: 1. Draw your chest feathers across the center of the plate. 2. Fold the two wing sides of the plate and simultaneously tuck in the very top of...
Too often educators do not have enough understanding of development and push writing skills too soon. Here is one way to adapt the page for the kids whose genetic make-up does not develop fine motor skills early. Start building writing foundational skills where it is...
Laminate your own custom board focused on your therapy goals. Here is one idea to get the creativity started. OPTION: You can also use file folders to place your sticker velcro strips on. OT: For writing goals you may have kids place alphabet letters in a row...