This article runs through how to run a handwriting camp or handwriting tutoring sessions. This is great for occupational therapy side gigs.
This article explains how to start and run a handwriting club for kids, so they can work on handwriting skills, in fun ways!
This article covers handwriting and sensory issues including paper sensitivities that impact handwriting in school or at home.
Recently, I had the opportunity to try a set of adaptive grip crayons and I had to share this therapy tool. Below, you’ll find information on the adapted grip crayons created by Effortless Art and strategies to impact carry over of handwriting goals, or just specifically pencil grasp and crayon grasp when writing or coloring. ... Read more
It can be a tricky thing to teach kids how to write their letters. They learn a letter a week in preschool or at home. When a child is just not interested in coloring, writing, and fine motor tasks, teaching letters can be difficult. I am all about creative and playful learning and when it ... Read more
These line awareness activities include strategies for using writing lines in handwriting and resources for alignment in handwriting.
Handwriting legibility and hand strength are closely tied. You might say they go hand-in-hand. (I had to go there!) This easy fine motor tong activity is designed to build some of the muscles needed for managing a pencil. The intrinsic muscles are the muscles in the hand that define the arches of the hands, bend the ... Read more
Adding movement and sensory input to teaching letters and handwriting is key for learning the motor plan, identifying letters, and carryover of learned skills. This cursive slime activity is a fun way to encourage letter formation, letter identification, and letter matching using slime as a fine motor and sensory medium to make the activity fun ... Read more
Common handwriting problems like spacing, letter formation, sizing, illegible writing impact learning for students. Here's how to help.
Smooth pursuits, or visual pursuits are visual tracking skills needed for reading and daily functional tasks. Here is more information and ideas.
Use this sensory processing Spanish resource to help explain sensory processing to Spanish-speaking clients, teachers, and occupational therapists.
These eye hand coordination activities using paper are fun ways to build visual motor skills and hand eye coordination.
Use broken crayons to make crayon play dough! This is the ORIGINAL crayon play dough recipe. You'll love the vivid colors of this recycled crayon dough.
These recess sensory diet activities are sensory processing strategies to incorporate into a sensory diet at school recess.
Tactile defensiveness or tactile sensitivity can impact children in many ways! Use this fake snow activity to explore tactile sensory play.
Great activities with Sensory Crash Pad to build your child's motor planning skills, improve attention and focus, and help with a sensory disorder.
Have you done an Easter Egg hunt yet this year? I'm so excited that we have an actual yard to do an Easter Egg hunt in this year! While we wait to do our real Easter egg hunt, we are playing with this fun Matching Easter Eggs sensory bin. Just like our very popular, Farm
Zero Sensory Bin is named Zero because the activity was a Zero Set Up and it contains actual zero. Great for fine motor practice and counting.
A thumb wrap grasp can look awkward and lead to slow handwriting. But is it functional? Here's what you need to know.
Working on pencil grasp doesn't need to be boring! Kids can use slime for a pencil grasp activity that builds hand stregth and a functional pencil grasp.
These hand dominance activities help with laterality and hand preference in kids. Kids who switch hands during activities can work on hand dominance.
Writing with a small pencil is a fine motor strengthening power tool. When kids use a small pencil to write (or small crayons to color), they are building the strength in their hands, allowing for increased endurance in writing and coloring tasks. The positioning of the hand on the pencil promotes a tripod grasp and ... Read more
This massive resource on visual motor skills includes visual motor activities and a breakdown of all things visual motor integration.
We are nearing the end of our color themed baby bins and this week was all about BLACK! Not the most exciting color, but I promise we had lots of fun thinking of creative ways to play with black. Here is a look at what we have planned for our second set of 6 color […]
Every weekend I try to make a plan of activities for the coming week to start on Monday. I start with the gauging what my child is interested in (using
This month’s sensory dough is Fizzy Dough! This was a fun one for us, because we combined one of our favorite doughs (baking soda dough!) with sensory science AND cursive handwriting….Whaaaa? Yep! We got them all in here on this post for you, and it was a fizzy blast! This is a great hands-on activity that can help with ... Read more
How to teach handwriting skills in your Preschool or Pre-K classroom. What's developmentally appropriate? What about worksheets?
This summer let your child continue to build writing muscles as well as core muscles while having a good time with vertical writing.
A sensory activity can be done with almost anything! As the simplify part of the Seventh Generation 7 day Journey to Natural Beauty, I did some spring
Simple ideas for sidewalk chalk gross motor activities. Use these sidewalk chalk gross motor activities today to challenge your kids gross motor skills!
Support your child's fine motor skills development with the photographed activities, tips and ideas in this awesome e-book!
This massive resource on visual motor skills includes visual motor activities and a breakdown of all things visual motor integration.
Bilateral integration information and ideas to build bilateral coordination skills in kids. These occupational therapy activities are so fun!
Sometimes, it’s fun to make handwriting practice a little bit different. This magnetic letter activity was a fun way to work on letter identification and letter formation in handwriting. For young children, becoming more familiar with letters and the alphabet is key to age-appropriate literacy. This refers to knowing a letter’s name, the letter’s sound, and the ... Read more
This s'mores sensory bin combines graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate chips to create a fun and tasty edible sensory bin perfect for toddlers. Sensory play is so much fun! It can often be difficult to find sensory bin materials that are appropriate for young children, particularly those who
Learn with Playdough I don’t know about you, but I have fond memories of playing with playdough as a child. I was having so much fun engaging in playdough activities that I didn’t even realize that I was learning. Learning?….Yes! Playdough activities provide some of the best opportunities for learning and development in the early childhood years. Here you will find everything that you need to know about playdough from benefits to recipes to creative activity ideas. This post contains affiliate links for your shopping convenience. I receive a small commission each time someone makes a purchase through one of
These pencil control exercises use colored pencils to help children establish pencil control in handwriting and fluid pencil motions.
Therapists wish all parents knew these important facts about pencil grasp. These pencil grasp recommendations are strait from the occupational therapist.
This simple icy ocean sensory bin is perfect for under the sea learning. Fun summer ice melt activity for kids learning about the ocean.
If you’ve ever tried to teach kids how to cut with scissors, you may have ended up with a snipped finger or two. Teaching kids how to cut on lines can be a tricky thing. When children with attention or behavior difficulties are learning to cut with scissors, it can be quite difficult to hand ... Read more
Below, you will find a blog post on a bilateral coordination activity using Pop Toobs. This fine motor bilateral coordination activity can address a variety of fine motor skills in kids including those bilateral coordination skills needed for tasks like handwriting, scissor use, shoe tying, and much more. This article was written by The OT Toolbox ... Read more
Common handwriting problems like spacing, letter formation, sizing, illegible writing impact learning for students. Here's how to help.
You'll only need a few simple kitchen ingredients to create your very own taste-safe moon sand at home!
Over 20 simple sensory play ideas for #100daysofplay
This handwriting activity helps with direction change in letter formation for legibility in handwriting of letters and words.
