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Paper Plate Drawing Game for Summer
This Summer paper plate drawing game is a super fun, kinesthetic, easy activity for a group. It encourages visual-spatial skills, visual motor skills, and body awareness. It is a definite challenge for kinesthetic awareness. How to play the paper plate drawing game: Give each player a pencil and a non-coated, white paper plate. If you […]
Self Regulation Checklist for Self Monitoring
Do your students struggle with refocusing after lunch? Perhaps after group activities it is difficult to return to independent work. Or maybe they need visual supports to help guide them to complete independent work. If you need to encourage students to improve self-regulation skills and maintain classroom expectations, then this free self-regulation checklist will help […]
Fun Handwriting Games Freebie
There is no doubt about it, children can get tired of practicing handwriting. Even more so when they need to improve their handwriting. Handwriting is a difficult task to practice over and over again. Why not add in some fun handwriting games? This freebie can be downloaded at the end of the post. How Do […]
Cat Activities for Preschoolers – 7 Free Printables
Young children seem to love cats – they are furry, cuddly and cute. Pete the Cat books and Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat offer wonderful opportunities for literacy with a cat theme. If you are looking to extend cat picture books to practice visual motor, fine motor, and gross motor skills here are 6 […]
Body Awareness Activities for Children
Body awareness definition is the ability to understand where our bodies are in space and how our bodies move. Body awareness activities for children help us to understand how to relate to objects and people at home, at school and outdoors. For example, proper body awareness tells us how far to reach for objects or […]
Positive Affirmations for Children
Positive affirmations for children (and mantras) are terrific tools that children can use to support themselves. They help them develop a healthy sense of self as well as a positive mental-social-emotional mindset. You can download FREE Positive Affirmations for Children Worksheets at the bottom of this post. If you want to learn more about Teaching […]
How to Increase Pencil Pressure
Do you work with students who have difficulty applying pencil pressure when writing? Students can start out writing lightly and then continue to get lighter and lighter. Sometimes teachers or therapists have had success using markers to write with instead of pencils. Here are a few additional ideas on how students can increase pencil pressure. […]
July 2019 Your Therapy Source Digital Magazine
The FREE July 2019 Your Therapy Source Digital Magazine has been published. You can sign up below to download the magazine. It is filled with research, activity ideas and more – all free to download the 34 page PDF. Table of Contents: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY GIFTS, PHYSICAL THERAPY GIFTS, AND TEACHERS GIFTS – TAKE YOUR PICK! […]
Free Directed Drawing and Writing Activity
Do you like to draw? Or maybe you want to learn how to become better at drawing. Step by step drawing activities are a wonderful idea to help children (and adults) learn how to draw. Children can practice their skills and gain confidence with these types of lessons. This FREE directed drawing and writing activity […]
Importance of Postural Control for Reaching in Children with CP
Recent research examined the importance of postural control for reaching in children with cerebral palsy. The authors wanted to determine why children with cerebral palsy exhibit small displacements during forward reaching in standing: is it because it is difficult to stabilize the lower limbs or is it because they can not control the movement of […]