This is such fun, especially if you have super bright colored paper strips. Kids usually want to keep it and are motivated to do it several times until they can curl the paper on their own. Great for dexterity, finger strength, direction following, bilateral coordination...
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...
Here is a unique way to work on job skills, writing, and task attention. This client would not write, but loved to draw and liked cars. We got creative and let him look up car emblems and draw them and write about them. He was suddenly...
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...
There are many different yoga visual support sheets on your Brilliant Therapy site, so browse around and find what you want. We have included this printer friendly and colored version for you to get started. OPTIONS: As you can tell by the pictures, Yoga and Tai...
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...
Handprints are wonderful for making garland for many different occasions. From retirement parties to room decorating this activity ends up leaving an uplifting impression. Therapeutic benefits include: sensory, fine motor, visual motor, bilateral integration, task attention, and social skills. Supplies: Paint, construction paper, pencil, scissors, string. Option: Write...
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...