I love this recycled project to encourage fine motor skills, visual discrimination skills and letter recognition. It is inexpensive. Just save some bottle caps (these are all water bottle caps) and you need white circle stickers. Just make some word strips and match up the letters. This is a great make and take activity to […]
The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal published research on 240 grade 2 children. The researchers wanted to determine whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale […]
How cool is this project? It reminds me of a zentangle which I always find very calming to do. There are two ways to complete this activity to encourage visual motor skills, grading of movements and visual spatial skills. 1. Doodle Shape Stencils – Draw any random doodle all over a piece of paper with […]
Here is a freebie from the Finish the Picture Spring edition. You can download it at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/holidayspringfreebie.html
Here is a simple way to make vertical puzzles. By hanging up the puzzles on the wall or in an upright position you encourage an increase in upper extremity active range of motion, wrist extension and can sneak in some gross motor skills (ie squatting and reaching up high). Find an old poster or use […]
Check out the latest freebie from the What? Why? How? Series 4 on Visual Skills. This freebie is on Visual Motor Integration. You can download it at https://www.yourtherapysource.com/wwh4free.html.
This is a wonderful drawing card game called Pick and Draw. If you are looking for a compact, easy to travel with, learn to draw tool, you should check out this activity. I received a free copy of the card game and the book to review this product. The card game comes in a plastic case […]
Here is a super simple but super effective name recognition activity. Begin with writing the child’s name on an index card. Write it a second time on another index card. Cut the first letter of the name off of the index card creating a two piece puzzle to create the name. If the child can […]
Child Development published research on the importance of block play in over one hundred preschoolers. The children in the study who were better at copying block patterns were also better at early math skills. Copying block pattern consisted of knowing whether a block went above or below with the blocks properly aligned. The results also indicated that children from […]
I came across another idea on Pinterest about changing up puzzles. Basically, using any picture or text that you would like, you can create a twisting puzzle. For this example I printed out a picture on heavy duty cardstock that would wrap around this container with about an inch of overlap. Cut the paper into […]