Common handwriting problems like spacing, letter formation, sizing, illegible writing impact learning for students. Here's how to help.
This massive resource on visual motor skills includes visual motor activities and a breakdown of all things visual motor integration.
Visual discrimination is an important skill for children to develop to assist with reading, writing and math skills.
This massive resource on visual motor skills includes visual motor activities and a breakdown of all things visual motor integration.
These occupational therapy midline crossing activities are quick and easy to use. They're great for all young brains, bodies and eyes!
These visual motor integration activities will help your child to learn skills needed for handwriting.
These occupational therapy midline crossing activities are quick and easy to use. They're great for all young brains, bodies and eyes!
Whether your child has sensory sensitivities, struggles with fine, gross, and/or visual motor skills, or needs help with handwriting, these occupational therapy activities will not disappoint!
Visual discrimination is an important skill for children to develop to assist with reading, writing and math skills.
Visual tracking activities are important for school skills. Using the infinity loop with learning activities is an added bonus for strengthening the eye muscles… it helps them to smoothly cross midline.
Here is a FREE ultimate visual motor challenge with two difficulty levels. Can you copy the lines and shapes exactly onto the blank grid? T...
These activities to improve convergence skills are easy ways to support visual processing needs, especially convergence insufficiency.
What is visual motor integration? Visual motor integration is the ability for your child’s hands and eyes to work together to guide their movements. Their eyes tell their brain how to move, and then their brain tells their hands to move there. Visual motor integration is the ability to incorporate visual information that we perceive
These fine motor skills activities could work with older kids who find other tasks too childish.
Whether your child has sensory sensitivities, struggles with fine, gross, and/or visual motor skills, or needs help with handwriting, these occupational therapy activities will not disappoint!
Vertical surface activities are an easy way to work on core strength and postural stability needed for fine motor skills development in kids.
Visual discrimination is an important skill for children to develop to assist with reading, writing and math skills.
Free printable fine motor skills worksheets and activities. Ways to develop and practice fine motor skills for preschool and kindergarten kids
These creative writing practice ideas support letter formation and automaticity in written work. OT ideas for working on writing skills.
Our team of therapists created Shape Book Activity Worksheets that target individual occupational therapy goals and incorporate unique learning style.
Here are 10 free visual motor printables – just print, grab a pencil and you are all set!!! 1. Visual Motor Exercise – http://yourtherapysource.com/vmefree.html 2. 2 Pages from Visual Motor Workbook – http://yourtherapysource.com/files/visual_motor_free_sample.pdf 3. Follow the Path – http://yourtherapysource.com/followfree.html 4. Letter and Shape Maze – http://yourtherapysource.com/lsmazefree.html 5. Connect Puzzle – http://yourtherapysource.com/connectfree.html 6. Graph Paper Drawing – http://yourtherapysource.com/graphdrawfree.html 7. Crossing Path Puzzle – http://yourtherapysource.com/crossingpathsfree.html 8. Frog Grid Drawing – http://yourtherapysource.com/griddrawingfreebie.html 9. Patterns Freebies – http://yourtherapysource.com/patternsfree.html 10. Lines, Lines and More Lines Freebie – http://yourtherapysource.com/linesfreebie.html Visit Your Therapy Source for more visual perceptual activities at http://yourtherapysource.com/visualdownloads.html
Visual tracking activities are important for school skills. Using the infinity loop with learning activities is an added bonus for strengthening the eye muscles… it helps them to smoothly cross midline.
This massive resource on visual motor skills includes visual motor activities and a breakdown of all things visual motor integration.
How cute are these trolls? Since I grew up in the 80’s, perhaps I am finding them even more adorable! This is a 5 page freebie from the Trolls Pencil Challenges packet. Children can practice visual motor skills with this fun troll themed activity. Download the Trolls Pencil Challenges Freebie Trolls Pencil Challenges download includes a HUGE collection of visual motor practice worksheets. Practice pencil control for vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved lines. Most of the 40+ visual motor worksheets are available in easy or more difficult versions – great for differentiated instruction in group settings. The worksheets are in color. The worksheets progress in difficulty. Also included are 12 mazes that progress in difficulty and 5 Follow the Dot activities. The pencil challenges are provided as full page worksheets and also as smaller worksheets (4 to a page) to increase the difficulty of the task. This download is an excellent choice for: fine motor centers in the classroom, visual motor skill practice, special education classrooms and/or handwriting warm ups. Find out more information. The post Trolls Pencil Challenges – Free! appeared first on Your Therapy Source.
Before a child learns to write letters in cursive, connect letters together, and recall the formation of cursive letters, it is helpful to build the skills needed for controlled pencil movements. When writing in cursive, we keep the pencil tip on the paper for a longer period of time compared to printed handwriting. When writing ... Read more
This massive resource on visual motor skills includes visual motor activities and a breakdown of all things visual motor integration.
This massive resource on visual motor skills includes visual motor activities and a breakdown of all things visual motor integration.
This resource on development of visual motor skills includes progression of visual motor skills by age, and includes therapy activities.
Visual Motor Integration is also known as eye hand coordination. Essentially, this skill is the ability to coordinate the hand in an effective manner directed by vision. When relying on visual motor skills, a person coordinates their movements based on what they see. A child requires effective visual motor skills in order to do so many ... Read more
Today, I’ve got a super fun fine motor activity that not only will be a hit with the kids, it will work on a few very important skills. This fine motor fidget toy is fun for kids to make and works on visual scanning at the same time. Then, when they are done, you’ve got ... Read more
I kind of love to share tricks for improving handwriting. There are so many “parts” to written work. There’s fine motor dexterity, pencil grasp, strength, endurance, visual perceptual skills, cognitive skills among other parts to handwriting. You can see more about these topics on our Handwriting page. One big way to develop the skills needed ... Read more
Use this FREE printable visual-spatial reasoning resource to help improve visual-motor skills in your kids.
These visual tracking games and toys support development of visual tracking skills and the visual processing skills needed for function.
Vision activities for every need! These fun ideas develop visual perception, visual motor skills, eye-hand coordination, and more.
Visual Motor activities that work well in online virtual teletherapy occupational therapy sessions!
Toy and game ideas that help kids develop visual perception.
Here is a fun FREEBIE to challenge visual perceptual and fine motor skills - find and color marine life visual motor. Students need to find the marine life and color it according to the key on the activity page. Download a FREE copy of the Find and Color Marine Life visual motor activity page at the end of this post.
Get your kids excited about learning with these FREE cut and paste worksheets for kindergarten and preschoolers filled with fun math and literacy activities.
You won’t want to miss these FREE Printable Lazy 8 Train Tracks to practice self-regulation skills, visual motor and fine motor skills.
These mini eraser activities are OT-approved! Head over to the Target Dollar Spot, grab yourself some mini erasers, and give these a try.
