Picnic Activities for Sensory Development April is a great month to get out in nature and explore! Have a picnic outside with your child and explore eating an apple (or another fruit containing seeds) with your child. You can talk about the texture, the taste, and how it makes our bodies [...]
Paint By Numbers - Dr. Seuss Activity for Fine Motor Skills You can start out by watching a short video clip, listening to a song, or reading a Dr. Seuss book with your child. Great materials can be found here! Print off one of the color/paint by numbers and have your [...]
Star Wars Carbonite Cubes Experiment - Autism Sensory Activity Hide a few of your child’s favorite star wars lego toys (or other small toys) in an ice cube mixture. Mix together the baking soda and water in a bowl. Once mixed, pack the baking soda mixture around the star wars lego toy [...]
Eric Carle Activities for Fine Motor Skills! We often introduce the activity by watching the Brown Bear Brown Bear video (link provided below). This helps increase motivation for task completion! First, complete the dot to dot! Then, color the formed picture (at this step you can address coloring in the lines and [...]
Practice OT Exercises ast Home with our December Tips Theme: Winter/Snowmen and Friends/Family Gross Motor: Balance beam Crossing a balance beam is an excellent way to build core strength and increase balance and coordination. Our kiddos love balance beam tasks! Using the beam within an obstacle course or as part of a multi step [...]
November's Occupational Therapy Workouts for Kids November's Occupational Therapy Workouts for Kids Occupational Therapy Workouts # 1 - Fine Motor: Color by number- this activity is both fun and an excellent way to address many fine motor and attention skills. It will help increase grasp strength, fine motor endurance, and gives the opportunity [...]
October's Kid-friendly Exercises from Occupational Therapy October's Kid-Friendly Exercises from Occupational Therapy Theme: Super Heroes and Monsters Kid-Friendly Exercises #1: Prone Extension. This position can also be known as the superman pose. When laying on your stomach, lift arms overhead and hold arms, head, and legs off of the ground. This is great [...]
September Occupational Therapy Drills September Occupational Therapy Drills Theme: Dinosaur and Bugs Occupational Therapy Drills # 1: Gross motor: Jumping. Jump on spot Jump forwards from a line two feet together Jump down from a progressively higher height Jump from hoop to hoop, circle to circle, over a rope. Jump sideways, back and forth, forwards and back Occupational [...]
August Occupational Therapy Tips August Occupational Therapy Exercises Gross Motor: Ball skills (dribbling, catching, throwing). Ball skills are good functional age appropriate play skill. They require body coordination, visual motor skills, as well as grading of force/pressure. Fine Motor: Paper clips. This bimanual task is an excellent fine motor activity because it requires that [...]
4 Occupational Therapy Activities for Kids With Autism Gross motor: Wheelbarrow walking: Wheelbarrow walking is a skill that encourages upper extremity coordination and strength. This helps to increase fine motor skills (cutting, manipulating fasteners on clothing, handwriting, etc.) by increasing stability at the shoulders. Fine/Visual Motor Skills: Mazes. Mazes are great for [...]
