The school year will be starting shortly for many of us. Start the school year off with fun, purposeful activities that combine movement with math skills. Not only will children benefit from the physical activity, moving while learning can help with memory skills, attention and focus. Here are three fun math activities that can be […]
Download this freebie Firetruck Game to encourage fine motor and visual motor skills. It is available in color and black and white. Give each player a board. Roll one die. Trace over the number of ladder rungs that you roll. The first player to trace all the ladder rungs is the winner! Download the Firetruck […]
The Journal of Pediatric Urology published research on interviews regarding 346 children with bilateral cerebral palsy (BCP) to describe the age of bladder and bowel control, intellectual impairment and severity of motor disability. The results indicated the following: median age for daytime bladder and bowel continence in BCP children was 5.4 years compared with 2.4 […]
Practice scissor skills, sequencing, glueing, following directions and drawing all with this one activity – Cut, Sequence, Paste and Draw Transportation. Download this truck freebie to get started with this no-prep activity. Find out more information on the complete Cut, Sequence, Paste and Draw Transportation Packet. Looking for different themes? Check out Cut, Sequence, Paste […]
The Journal of Attention Disorders published a meta-analysis on the possible beneficial effects of exercise in alleviating ADHD functional outcomes in children. After searching various databases, 10 studies for a total of 300 participants on the effects of physical exercise on motor skills and executive functions in children with ADHD were included. The analysis revealed the […]
Handwriting Heroes is a new handwriting app developed by Cheryl Bregman who is an occupational therapist. You may be familiar with her from another amazing app she created Abilipad which is a customizable keyboard and adaptive notepad, with word prediction and text-to-speech. I asked Cheryl to answer a few questions about her career and her development […]
The Summer Olympic Games are only a few weeks away! This Summer Olympic games freebie activity, Find and Color is a fun way to encourage visual discrimination and visual motor skills with a Summer Olympic theme. You can download it for FREE at the bottom of the post. HOW TO COMPLETE THE FIND AND COLOR […]
Pediatric therapists, parents and teachers use homemade play dough recipes daily. Here is a collection of fun ones from the Internet to explore. 1. Recipes for Sensory Fun: This is a nice 5 page download created by a therapy company to hand out to parents. 2. Nuture Store – Let’s Play with Dough – includes […]
Can you use your visual discrimination and visual scanning skills to find and circle the five differences in this picture? Download this freebie from the Find the Differences Packet. The best thing about this puzzle is that it is not too difficult. Some of the puzzles that are available for children to spot the differences […]
Keep calm and do yoga. No one can deny that yoga helps to calm children. Hang up this reminder in your therapy room, classroom or yoga studio. You can print it in color or choose 2 different black and white posters that the children can color for you to hang up. Try using it as […]