Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Children will enjoy these Mother’s Day movement activities as they move like the baby and mama animals. Below are some ideas from the Mother’s Day Movement Cards and Games complete packet. You can download three sample pages for the full color posters. Encourage the children to make small […]
Do you ever ask yourself if you are the best therapist for the job? For any children who receive related services, hopefully this question is asked frequently. When teachers create class lists for the following school year, they usually make a recommendation based on the student and the teacher’s style. The students move from grade […]
Do you have loads of plastic Easter eggs from the holiday? Here are 10 games to play with plastic Easter eggs: 1. Sensory Table Accessories: Separate the plastic eggs. Children can use them to dig in sand, beans or other tactile items. Put them in the water table. Some of the eggs have holes in […]
Can you find and count the correct number of bees? This is a perfect puzzles to get in a brain workout. Challenge visual discrimination skills, visual motor skills and counting skills with this freebie. DOWNLOAD THE FIND AND COUNT THE BEES ACTIVITY Brain Workouts Volume 1: This digital document encourages children to have fun, be […]
Here are two easy mazes (freebie!) from the Big Book of Easy Mazes. Mazes are excellent visual motor practice for children. The only problem is sometimes they are just TOO hard. These simple mazes are easier to complete helping to build a child’s confidence level. Complete the piggy bank maze or the butterfly maze. They […]
Early Childhood Education Journal published research on 68 preschool children (34 low socioeconomic (SES) background and 34 typically developing) to compare the motor skill performance using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales-2 (PDMS-2). Standard scores from each subtest (i.e., stationary, locomotion, object manipulation, grasping, and visual-motor integration) and three quotient scores were calculated for all the […]
The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders published research investigating the connection between motor skills (oral-motor, manual-motor) and speech and language deficits. Data analysis was performed examining a registry from children with autism spectrum disorder (n = 1781), 2–17 years of age, who completed a multidisciplinary evaluation that included diagnostic, physical, cognitive and behavioral assessments. After adjusting for […]
This blue bird color, write and draw freebie is from the latest digital download, Bird Color Packet. This activity is perfect for Spring time! Print out the black and white worksheet and ask the child to color the word blue, color the bird blue, write the word blue and draw something that is the color […]
Here is a fun freebie – 6 Body Part Awareness Activities and Printables. You can download your FREE copy at the bottom of the post. Directions Body Awareness Activities and Printables: Print the following two pages. Laminate for durability. Activity #1: Point to different body parts on the boy or the girl. Ask the child […]
Pediatrics published a meta-analysis on the association of children’s physical activity levels in childhood and adolescence with depression. Fifty studies (89,894 participants) were included from 2005-2015 that measured physical activity in childhood or adolescence and examined its association with depression The results indicated that stronger effect sizes were seen in studies with: cross-sectional versus longitudinal designs […]