Enjoy a collection of Montessori inspired fine motor and sensorial work. Also, please join our Thursday Learn & Play link up!
You know we loooooove us some sensory play time for our kiddos🙌🏼 If you're new here OR are unfamiliar with the idea of sensory play, read below!1️⃣ What is it? Sensory play is anything that engages the senses (taste, smell, sight, touch, and sound). Additionally, it includes lesser known senses such as balance, movemen
This musical scale activity is easy to provide with mason jars. The activity will engage listening skills and fine motor skills, while providing sensory play.
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!
Autism activities to help increase communication, fine motor skills, sensory play skills, interaction & more in your home or autism classroom!
This magnet activity inspired by Herve Tullet‘s popular children’s book, Let’s Play, is super fun to use and really fun to make! Kids will love creating different scenes and paths for their magnets to travel on- gaining fine motor practice, while also exploring the science of magnetism. I received the book Let’s Play! and Do-a-Dot markers …
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!
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Sensory play with Indian Food and creative ways you can get your child engaged with things from your pantry!
Let your preschoolers explore with this simple mortar and pestle montessori activity that‘a sensory, fine and gross motor, and an experiment.
Pull out that deck of cards! You can use them to help kids improve fine motor skills using these fine motor activities with playing cards.
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Autism activities to help increase communication, fine motor skills, sensory play skills, interaction & more in your home or autism classroom!
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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!
These are great portable sensory activities for autism! They are small enough to take in your purse, and provide great sensory input...
100 sensory play activities for babies, toddlers, preschool and school.
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!
Fairy playdough recipe smells amazing and uses only 3 ingredients. Great for sensory and fine motor development and imaginative play.
101 sensory play activities for kids with autism to help strengthen the brain’s neural pathways by stimulating the 5 senses to facilitate learning!
Resistance bands activities to help your child with sensory integration, proprioception, motor planning and crossing the midline.
This paper crumpling activity is a fine motor workout for the hands. Work on finger strength, hand eye coordination, pinch, and grasp!
These fine motor play ideas are FUN pencil grasp activities that build fine motor skills, perfect for addressing pencil grip in occupational therapy.
For children needing gross motor practice and outlets, grab these gross motor toys and tools for a sensory diet outlet at home.
Help your child to isolate finger movements - vital for fine motor skills, playing musical instruments and keyboarding!
Fun and engaging for kids ages 3-8, Songames are musical activities for improving fine-and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. Songames for Sensory Processing: 25 Therapist Created Musical Activities for Improving Fine and Gross Motor Skills, Muscle Strength, and Rhythmicity These 25 therapist-created Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Plus, the 53-page companion...Read More »
These super fun crossing the midline exercises can be used in the classroom, in OT, and at home to improve brain communication and fine motor skills!
19 therapy toys for kids with autism and sensory processing disorder that help develop gross and fine motor skills, language, and cognitive skills.
Cactuses (Cacti?) seem to be all the rage right now! Those and llamas. I don’t really know why either is so trendy, but I think do cacti are pretty awesome, especially after seeing saguaro cacti in Arizona on our road trip to California. Here’s a fun cactus activity – create a make-your-own cactus play dough […]
Kids need movement to learn. The connection between a fidgeting body and the brain are quite remarkable! Get your kids the sensory input they crave!
These occupational therapy interventions are OT activities for kids to help with child development of functional skills.
Channel your child’s enthusiasm for the night sky with these 30+ learning through play, constellation activities for kids. “Mommy, look – I see stars!” There’s something truly magical to kids about the night sky. Maybe it’s because they aren’t often out after dark. Or maybe it’s because the night sky…
20+ Simple Hands-On Activities That Help Build Fine Motor Skills - with fine motor skills going missing at preschool, try some of these hands-on invitations to help strengthen fine motor skills | you clever monkey
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
Pirate Treasure Hunt sensory bin with kinetic sand! Keep kids entertained for HOURS! Takes MINUTES to put together!
Check out this massive list of 109 occupational therapy activities for kids stuck at home.
This fine motor activity is one that works on the super small motor skills of the hands. We’ve shared tips and ideas for building precision of grasp and release before, and this is one more way to build those skills, with a math and engineering twist. This is a fine motor math activity with major ... Read more
Get 9 Core Strengthening Activities your kids can do at home that will improve their fine motor skills while still having fun!
These occupational therapy interventions are OT activities for kids to help with child development of functional skills.
The best bean bags for developing your child's motor planning, proprioception, visual motor and sensory integration.
Do you ever find yourself spinning your pencil, tapping your leg or twirling your hair while trying to do work? These are all ways we subconsciously provide our bodies with sensory input in order to be focused and productive. Many children do not know how or when to provide their bodies with the appropriate input they need. (Scroll to the bottom for a printable sensory diet template!) This is where a Sensory Diet comes into play. What is this new diet everyone is talking about? A sensory diet is a personalized action plan that gives your child the unique sensory input...
Playdough is always a favourite in my classroom. It's ideal to use that interest for reinforcing educational skills and concepts. That’s the beauty of a play-based classroom. You can teach phonics and consolidate phonemic skills through the provocations and learning invitations you provide. Playdou
These occupational therapy midline crossing activities are quick and easy to use. They're great for all young brains, bodies and eyes!
Autism activities to help increase communication, fine motor skills, sensory play skills, interaction & more in your home or autism classroom!
