Animals Archives - Therapy Fun Zone https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/category/craft/animals/ Where Play is FUNctional Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:35:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-tfz-icon-copy-copy-32x32.png Animals Archives - Therapy Fun Zone https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/category/craft/animals/ 32 32 cutting out bats https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/#respond Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:14:18 +0000 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=22724 This post may contain affiliate links.A couple of weeks ago, I spontaneously needed to run a preschool group center and had to come up with an activity to have at my table, so I quickly drew a spider that the kids could cut out an glue onto a spider web. I did it with my...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/cutting-out-bats/feed/ 0 Fine Motor Pet Feeding https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-pet-feeding/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-pet-feeding/#respond Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:20:02 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=10075 This post may contain affiliate links.Animals are great fun for kids and can make it motivating to work on skills. I don’t have any real animals to work with, so I made some pet store animals for the kids to feed, use clothespins, and practice some writing. The activity is simple and cute. First you...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-pet-feeding/feed/ 0 Feed the Animal Fine Motor Activity https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/feed-animal-fine-motor-activity/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/feed-animal-fine-motor-activity/#respond Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:00:51 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=9993 This post may contain affiliate links.I always love the fine motor activity of putting objects into a hole or slot, and it makes the task more fun and engaging when you are pretending to feed an animal. Plastic deli containers or yogurt containers are perfect to cut a mouth or slit into and draw on...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/feed-animal-fine-motor-activity/feed/ 0 Visual Motor Skills and Cutting With Scissors https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/visual-motor-skills-cutting-scissors/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/visual-motor-skills-cutting-scissors/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:00:48 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=9636 This post may contain affiliate links.Being able to cut with scissors requires many skills, starting with the physical motor ability to sit at a table, the fine motor ability to hold the scissors, and the strength to open and close the scissors. In order to follow lines and shapes and to cut them out with...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/visual-motor-skills-cutting-scissors/feed/ 3 Coloring and Cutting Heart Bugs and Caterpillars https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/coloring-and-cutting-heart-bugs-and-caterpillars/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/coloring-and-cutting-heart-bugs-and-caterpillars/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=6829 This post may contain affiliate links.Last year I made some really cute heart butterflies, and wanted to increase it by having other bugs to make too.  They make cute little valentine love bugs. The bugs are very similar to the heart butterflies with the same template shapes, but changed in order to look more like...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/coloring-and-cutting-heart-bugs-and-caterpillars/feed/ 0 Pom Pom Animals https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/pom-pom-animals/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/pom-pom-animals/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=6023 This post may contain affiliate links.When I was a kid, I spent hours making these felt and pom pom animals. I have had the pom poms in a box all these years, but could only find a couple of the hand made patterns that I used back then, so I made some new patterns. You...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/pom-pom-animals/feed/ 0 Bugs In a Jar Craft https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bugs-in-a-jar-craft-4/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bugs-in-a-jar-craft-4/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=4421 This post may contain affiliate links.I started this craft thinking it would be so cute to cut out bugs and glue them onto a bug box like you caught the bugs.  This morphed into a jar, because a jar is see through, and a bug box is not.  It then morphed into a full game...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/bugs-in-a-jar-craft-4/feed/ 2 Making heart butterflies https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/making-heart-butterflies/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/making-heart-butterflies/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=4320 This post may contain affiliate links.For a fun craft this year, I had the kids color hearts, cut them out, and make butterflies out of them.  I think that they made adorable little love bugs.  Maybe next I will create different bugs to be cut out, but for now it is butterflies. I had the...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/making-heart-butterflies/feed/ 3 Big Mouth Creature with clothespin to open the mouth https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/big-mouth-creature-with-clothespin-to-open-the-mouth/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/big-mouth-creature-with-clothespin-to-open-the-mouth/#respond Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=3461 This post may contain affiliate links.I saw these Big Mouth Critters on a blog called Whimsical Publishing, and thought that they were so cute, and that it would be a great activity for some of my students to do. Some kids need the challenge of following the folding directions and trying to make the creature...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/big-mouth-creature-with-clothespin-to-open-the-mouth/feed/ 0 Building Animal Faces With Shapes https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/building-animal-faces-with-shapes/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/building-animal-faces-with-shapes/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/2011/04/building-animal-faces-with-shapes/ This post may contain affiliate links.I have been working with several kids who have visual perceptual problems, and they have a hard time with some of the simple tasks. I am working on getting back to basics with them so that we can build on it. I wanted to have them put together shapes to...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/building-animal-faces-with-shapes/feed/ 4 Caterpillar https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/caterpillar/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/caterpillar/#respond Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:58:33 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=2054 This post may contain affiliate links.Here is a post submitted by a reader: This is a good activity for drawing circles, handwriting, and cutting, as well as pattern recognition.  I created a “caterpillar head” print out and have the kids each color and cut out the head. Then, they choose three colors of construction paper...

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