Use these 10 games for handwriting practice, allowing kids to improve legibility, sizing, placement, and more as they play.
Use these emotional regulation games to teach the Zones of Regulation or any emotional regulation curriculum.
I am always looking for ideas to shake up my OT treatments and try to get creative with activity tolerance activities, because it is just NOT functional or
Use these 10 board games to boost handwriting development for your preschool to early elementary aged child.
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Crossing the Midline Activities for Preschoolers highlights games and activities for children age three to five to cross midline through play
Use these 10 games for handwriting practice, allowing kids to improve legibility, sizing, placement, and more as they play.
Today, we're going to take you on a fun journey of creativity and entertainment with dominoes. Dominoes have been a source of amusement and education for generations, offering endless possibilities for games, learning activities, and even artistic projects. In this post, we're excited to provide you with a treasure trove of Printable Blank Domino Templates that will unlock your imagination and keep you engaged for hours.
Squigz are a fun toy to use in your Occupational Therapy sessions. I share my top 5 favorite ways to use them and have a freebie with 20 more!
Crossing the midline activities for kids. What on earth are those? Sometimes in the educational world we start speaking a slightly different language than 'normal' people. Not that teachers aren't normal ... though ... you do need to be a little insane to work with small children all day long, don't you? Anyways. I had
Toy and game ideas that help kids develop visual perception.
If you're an occupational therapy practitioner or student looking for cognitive intervention ideas, check out our article covering the all the basics here.
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Simple Maze Printables To Stimulate Little Minds Welcome to the wonderful world of simple maze printables and activities. Get your little one started early! Mazes are great for developing those little minds. It keeps kids mentally stimulated while they are having fun. Below are some simple maze printables. They are mildly challenging for little ones. Each maze is unique, with fun illustrations to keep your little one engaged. To print, click on the link below any maze you like. All our printables are for personal use. Print as many as you like. Feel free to come back often to get
FREE printable Symmetry drawing activity for preschool and kindergarten kids. A fun art and math activity in one! Kids will complete the symmetrical pictures by drawing the other half.
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These cross crawl exercises and activities support movement and self-regulation needs. Check out the cross crawls for all ages (birth-adult).
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I have found some great teletherapy resources in the last few months but I am still missing all the games from my speech room. Now that I have figured out how to use my Osmo as a document camera I thought this would open up the possibilities of using some of my games during teletherapy! I went through my games and came up with six games/activities that I can play while screen sharing. I have tweaked some of the instructions just a little to make it work and some I changed up the rules to help be more specific in targeting goals. Here's a collection of six games to screen share during teletherapy! Rory's Story Cubes These little cubes are great for so many language and articulation goals! You can target naming/identifying pictures, using verbs, self-monitoring articulation skills, producing grammatically correct sentences, generating a narrative, and telling a story using sequencing skills just to name a few. While I was sharing about these cubes Hanna from My Literacy Space commented letting me know there is an awesome app too! I think the app is probably a better option to share during therapy as the dice are bigger. When I share the app I don't need to use the Osmo, but I just didn't take it apart. I followed the same steps as I would if I were screen sharing the Osmo (just opened the app I wanted instead of the Osmo document camera app). Kids on Stage This game can target understanding categories (animals, objects, and actions), following directions, and making inferences. First, spin the spinner, and then choose a matching card to act out. The other players in the game aren't supposed to see the card so I usually just have them turn around, or cover/close their eyes. First player to guess correctly gets a point and first player to 5 points wins! HedBanz Junior This one is played a little differently over teletherapy. We don't wear the headbands instead, we take turns flipping over a card and the other players in the group have to ask questions to figure out what the card may be. I like the junior version for my younger kids because all the cards are animals. With this game, we can target naming animals, following directions, taking turns, asking/answering questions, using articulation skills in conversation, and making inferences. Pickles to Penguins This fun card game is the best for practicing comparing and/or contrasting which is what it's all about! You flip over two cards and someone has to tell what the two objects have in common. I usually challenge my kids to see who can find the most similar characteristics (or differences depending on what we're targeting) between the two objects. Pictionary My drawing skills are not the best but this game is always a fun one! Pictionary is so easy to change depending on what you are targeting. I rarely use the cards that come with the actual game. Instead, if we're working on articulation skills I flash cards that contain the targeted sound (you also need to tell the other players to turn around during this part too). If we're working on verbs I use pictures of verbs and so on. We keep score by who can shout out the name of the picture fastest. When playing with kids over the computer we just use a marker and notebook paper but I do like that the game now comes with a dry erase board and marker! Spot It Spot It is one of my favorite games to play when we have a few minutes left in a session. Over teletherapy, I put down one card face up and then a pile of cards face down. I flip one card from the pile over at a time. I usually only change one of the cards each round. The person who can shout out the match first gets a point. First player to 5 points wins! I hope that gave you some ideas of how to can use games you already have during teletherapy. If you are unable to use the Osmo as a document camera or don't have a document camera/Osmo you could easily adapt most of these games by just showing the cards using the built-in web camera. Just be sure to tell any other players in the group not to peek when flashing the cards or dice.
Easy and fun crossing the midline activities kids love. Plus strategies Occupational Therapists use for success and FREE PRINTABLE!
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These engaging circle time activities focus on multisensory learning, incorporating age-appropriate attention and self-regulation strategies.
Print out the I Spy Summer printable and find the 14 summer items. A great activity page for road trips and keeping kids busy on summer days.
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These bilateral coordination activities are bilateral movement strategies to help kids demonstrate bimanual coordination skills.
This printable matching socks game is the perfect activity to keep your toddler entertained and learning through play. Download it for FREE!
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This free printable Battleship board game template is loads of fun to play with friends and family. Use pencil and paper so you can play anywhere!
Kindergarten Math Made Fun Unit 9 is here, and it's all about SHAPES! This hands-on, engaging and FUN unit will get kids excited about basic shapes! Not
Use these 10 games for handwriting practice, allowing kids to improve legibility, sizing, placement, and more as they play.
