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spiral christmas tree cutting

Therapy Fun Zone — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:31:02 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have some kids that really benefit from cutting spirals because it makes them slow down with their cutting and really pay attention to their cutting. I made these great spirals with greenery so that it will look like a christmas tree when it is cut out. It has a...

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Christmas activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:59:55 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Christmas is rushing up to us, and all of the christmas activities lend themselves so perfectly to all of the therapy stuff. This time of year it is so easy to sit down with a student and pick an activity out of thin air to do. You have christmas trees,...

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Wrapping and Taping

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:33:30 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Wrapping a package is something that many kids really struggle doing, and often don’t get a chance to practice it because they don’t have the skill to do it so their wrapped packages look messy. When I bring out wrapping paper and a little box (usually empty) the kids get...

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Writing Lines Cookie Decorating

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:43:21 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Getting back to basics today with coloring, cutting, gluing and writing. Decorating cookies is a fun activity but I can’t carry cookies around with me, so I made some cookies to decorate on paper. I made some cookies that you can color and practice writing lines on. Then you cut...

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Button Felt Christmas Tree

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:28:38 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Felt button activities are fun to use when working on buttoning skills, and a Christmas tree lends itself really well to buttoning. I made a button Christmas tree, and you can button the circle ornaments onto the tree. To make your own, you just need some green felt for the...

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Felt Christmas Tree

Therapy Fun Zone — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:55:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Here is a fun little Christmas activity of decorating a Christmas tree with felt ornaments. I got a styrofoam cone from the craft store and wrapped green felt around it. I then cut out some ornament shapes from different colored felt. You could glue the green felt onto the cone,...

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Ribbon Christmas Tree

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:45:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.This ribbon Christmas tree activity is the most awesome therapy activity ever. It incorporates practicing tying into a nice craft that looks beautiful when it is done. The kids all loved it, and they were all very proud of what they had accomplished. Most of the kids started the activity...

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Gingerbread House Decorating; real and pretend

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:00:33 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love decorating gingerbread houses, and it works on some great skills with spreading the frosting and placing the candy. I will often do a simplified version making graham cracker houses instead of gingerbread, and love to use it as a great take home Christmas activity. Working in the schools,...

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Snow Man Dressing

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 19:50:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I saw a cute little snow man mentioned on a teacher’s site, and I thought it would be perfect to use in therapy. The original source of the picture was from here, but I have made my own to cut out, color, and dress your snowman. There is a plain...

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Finish the Holiday Pictures – December Edition

Therapy Fun Zone — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:09:13 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.There is a new item in the store from Your Therapy Source. It is called Finish the Holiday Pictures – December Edition, and it is an activity to work on visual perceptual skills and copying pictures, with a December theme. It includes 20 pictures of patterns to copy with a...

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Cute Christmas Tree Crafts

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have had a sad lack of holiday crafts here, so here is a quick post to show some pictures of some cute Christmas tree crafts that I saw in a classroom today. The first one is made out of painted paper plates and then decorated. The next one is...

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Marshmallow Men

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.We made some men out of marshmallows and toothpicks, and they were delicious. We used multiple sizes of marshmallows for the different parts, and connected the parts with toothpicks. Some of these men were looking very funny, but they all tasted good in the end. This is a fun food...

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Ice Cream Cone Christmas Trees

Therapy Fun Zone — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:40:10 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.One of the Kindergarten classes that I visited today was making Christmas Trees out of ice cream cones. First you get a sugar cone, the kind with the pointy tip. Then you spread green frosting all over the cone. You can use red licorice strings as garland, and sprinkle it...

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Making Christmas Trees with torn paper

Therapy Fun Zone — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I did this activity on Monday. I used the christmas tree cutting template that I made. We cut out the shapes and glued them in place on one side of a piece of paper. On the other side of the paper, I made lines to write on. This is the...

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Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When I used to work in an outpatient clinic environment, I used to have the kids make these gingerbread type of houses out of graham crackers. It was a fun, christmasy activity that was good therapy at the same time. It was also out of the ordinary, and the kids...

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Scissor Cutting: Snow Man Template

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Here is a snow man template to color and cut. The client has to draw the face and add any extra accessories. Here is a picture of the template. Here is a PDF file for the snow man template.

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Scissor Cutting: Christmas Tree

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Here is a Christmas tree template for coloring, cutting and putting together. First the finished product. Next, the template. I have the template both plain white, and in colors. Here are the pdfs. Save Save

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scissor cutting: gingerbread man

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:05:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have been working on some new printables to cut out with scissors and paste together. It is time to get into the winter and holiday spirit, so here is my gingerbread man. First is the finished product. Here is the template to color and cut. Here is the PDF...

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