Easy and fun crossing the midline activities kids love. Plus strategies Occupational Therapists use for success and FREE PRINTABLE!
These crossing midline activities support development of crossing the midline plays in functional tasks like learning and self care.
Over 80 amazing, simple proprioceptive activities for kids. Learn benefits of proprioceptive input to calm, focus, and alert.
Scissor salad is a fun way to practice how to use scissors and build fine motor scissor cutting skills. Get free labels and worksheets!
Common handwriting problems like spacing, letter formation, sizing, illegible writing impact learning for students. Here's how to help.
Proprioceptive input activities throughout the day improves sensory integration, self-regulation, and also prevents inappropriate sensory seeking behaviors.
Your baby is growing up quickly and is having a whale of a time making discoveries and exploring new things. Of course, your excitement to knows no bounds. However, for your child to master important motor skills, it’s vital that she has good bilateral coordination.
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
Easy and fun crossing the midline activities kids love. Plus strategies Occupational Therapists use for success and FREE PRINTABLE!
Ideas for bilateral coordination activities in standing, seated, and quadruped. Lots of videos to see the activities in action!
Discover over 45 vestibular activities that can calm, regulate, and improve attention in your child. Plus, get vestibular exercises for...
This resource covers information on the proprioceptive sense and includes proprioception sensory activities for kids.
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
Your kids or students will love coloring and cutting out our free Squishmallow scissor skills activity pages. Kids will have fun learning, great for homeschooling, teachers, road trips, and more!
Grab your FREE hair salon scissor skills printable to use with your preschool and kindergarten students! Use at home and at school!
If you're looking for interoception activities for kids to improve internal body awareness and self-regulation, these ideas will inspire you!
Looking for occupational therapy activities using free or household materials? This list of OT activities supports development of OT goals.
The Z axis As therapists, we recognize the importance of mid-line crossing to help with primitive reflexes. Reaching lateral outside…
Kids learn about the alphabet from a young age! Whether they are singing the ABC's or identifying letters of their name, it is one of the first things kids learn about! Including fine motor and
This Blog and Infographic will review tonic reflexes, their significance if the reflex persists beyond the typical age range, and the possible impact on a child’s functioning and role performance. Last but not least, this blog will suggest therapeutic interventions that are known to help inhibit the activation of tonic reflexes and advance postural control as a foundation for optimal functioning.
Does your child struggle with auditory attention? Find tons of fun and easy activity ideas to help improve the attention, processing speed and memory.
The Z axis As therapists, we recognize the importance of mid-line crossing to help with primitive reflexes. Reaching lateral outside…
These bilateral coordination activities are bilateral movement strategies to help kids demonstrate bimanual coordination skills.
Download this free ghost craft printable and create your own cut and paste activity with eight pages of ghosts plus features and accessories.
When something is off with the vestibular system it often presents itself as behavioral issues. These vestibular input activities support sensory needs and improves behavior
Help your child to isolate finger movements - vital for fine motor skills, playing musical instruments and keyboarding!
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
10 Everyday Core Strengthening Activities for Children - when children move, play and work throughout the day they can strengthen their core muscles.
Discover over 45 vestibular activities that can calm, regulate, and improve attention in your child. Plus, get vestibular exercises for...
A bundle of free zones of regulation printables that you can download and use as a supplement to the Zones of Regulation curriculum.
One of our OT’s was so excited last week to show us the new activity she was doing with a few of her kiddos. She had just started it so she hasn’t had time to embellish it for pictures…
These bilateral coordination activities are bilateral movement strategies to help kids demonstrate bimanual coordination skills.
Your 18 to 24-month old baby is growing and learning new skills quickly. He is likely knows the meaning of simple objects, names items in a book, understands simple verbs. The following developmental milestone chart will give you an idea of what do expect during the next few months. The project above was completed by Master of Occupational Therapy students at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and posted with permission.
Free printable fine motor skills worksheets and activities. Ways to develop and practice fine motor skills for preschool and kindergarten kids