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Pizza Delivery Game For Following Directions

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:12:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I wanted to do some direction following and learning right and left, as well as memory, so I created a pizza delivery game. This game uses a floor road map that I made, and writing out and following the directions to get to different houses on the map. I made...

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Fun Fine Motor Spider Webs

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:00:23 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love the look of spider webs, and they are such a beautiful work of art. Here are some spider webs made out of pipe cleaner and popsicle sticks. You place the popsicle sticks (or other pipe cleaners) in cross patterns and duct tape them together. Then you wind the...

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Munchy Ball Dress Up and New Colored Balls

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:00:56 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.It is fun to have a toy that is personalized and not the same as all of the others. We spent some time last weekend dressing up the Munchy Balls and making them unique. On some of them we used colored sharpies to draw on some permanent changes such as...

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Making Tents and Teepees with Writing Lines

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:00:42 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When playing with the Munchy Ball with a young boy, we worked on making some houses. I tried to have him make a woven stick Teepee such as the one made by Timbernook, but our ground was too hard and we could not pierce it with sticks well enough for...

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OT Life Hacks: #OTtips

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.In Occupational Therapy, our whole job is centered on making life a little easier and making sure that people can be successful. Most of what I post about are activities to work on specific problem areas, but I have posted a few things that could be considered general life hacks. ...

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Home Made Infinity Loop Toy

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.An Infinity Loop is a ball run that goes around and around, and you have to keep moving it to keep the ball on the run. Its beginning is its end and it just keeps going. I have quickly and easily made an infinity loop toy out of two sturdy...

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Color matching velcro block fine motor toy

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love all of the recycling activities that the Recycling OT does, but I am not as good at saving items to recycle. I used an empty tennis ball can, and put colored duct tape stripes on it in the colors of the items that I wanted to attach to...

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Home Made Table Ice Hockey Game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.This game takes a bit of time to put together, but it isn’t hard, and the materials are quite cheap. I made the game originally to play in the pool, but I think that it actually works better played on a table, and I think that it would be fun...

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Make Your Own Zoom-Ball

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Every clinic needs to have a Zoom Ball since it is so great for working on so many skills. You hold the handles and pull them out wide so that the zoom-ball moves along the two strings to the person holding the other handles. In order to make your own...

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Pool Noodle Visual Motor Ring

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I had a lot of pool noodles lying around, so I made a visual tracking ring to use with a marble. To make the ring, I bent a regular pool noodle into a circle and duct taped the ends together. Then I took scissors (but an x-acto knife would work...

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Pool Noodle Ball Run

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I saw these pool noodles at the grocery store, and they had extra large holes in the middle. I just knew that they would work for an activity. I made a frame out of four pvc pipes, using duct tape to hold them together at the top. I then attached...

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Button Push Ins

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When working on buttoning skills, there is a progression of skill mastery. Pushing buttons or coins into a container is the first step. Putting coins into a piggy bank slot is the easiest, and then pushing buttons or coins into a recycled butter tub is the next. One reason using...

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I Spy Bags

Therapy Fun Zone — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:00:14 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I spy bags are fabric bags with a vinyl see-through window in them. They are then filled with a filler such as plastic pellets, and small objects are placed inside and sealed up. A child then has to move around the inside pieces to find see all of the objects...

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Squishy Marble Maze

Therapy Fun Zone — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:00:58 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have seen this Marble Maze where you have to manipulate the marble through a path, and I made my own. I used duct tap, a zip-lock bag, some dish soap, and a marble. First I folded a strip of duct tape on itself, topsides together, so that I had a...

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Foam and duct tape pencil case

Therapy Fun Zone — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:00:24 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.This craft is to make a pencil case out of a sheet of craft foam and duct tape. It is very quick and easy to do, and it is not messy. It does take some skill to put the duct tape in the right places. We used colored duct tape...

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