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Cute flower craft for earth day

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:38:54 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love flower crafts, but I have done that so much, and I have done so many rainbow crafts that I was trying to come up with something that I haven’t done before. Most of my kids are working on cutting circles, and a few are working on just snipping....

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Cute Button Bugs

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:54:29 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love bugs as manipulatives and had to make some cute little bugs to work on buttoning. There are three little bugs that you have to button their heads and wings onto the bodies. I really like dragonflies and bees, so had to make those ones. I made a dragonfly,...

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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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cutting out bats

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:14:18 +0000

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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Fun October Halloween activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:23:13 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.One of my absolute favorite activities, (and the kid’s favorite) is the roll a monster (creature) game. It is also the perfect time of year to play the game as Halloween is right around the corner. We are into October and it is the time of year for fun fall...

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More ways to use Wikki Stix

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Making two dimensional pictures three dimensional is the power and beauty of Wikki Stix. I work with some kids that really struggle with the visual perceptual ability of figuring out where to place lines on the paper, and it helps to use Wikki Stix to physically build those lines. I...

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Valentines day activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:32:18 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I like valentines day activities because they lend themselves well to coloring, writing, painting, cutting, and gluing. My favorites are the heart butterflies and the heart bugs, but just drawing hearts and coloring and cutting them are great too. Making flowers out of hearts is a really simple way to...

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A cute button penguin

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:51:57 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.As the weather is cold, what better animal to work on buttoning than a penguin. I made this cute little felt penguin to have the kids practice their buttoning skills. The kids are always much more willing to practice fastening buttons when there is more interest to it that a...

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Tack-it in place of velcro

Therapy Fun Zone — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:29:45 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I found a new glue that is great for sticking pieces of laminated paper together. It’s called tack it and it is a great replacement for velcro. You brush it on the back of a piece of laminated paper and let it dry. You can then stick it on to...

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Back to school activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:40:56 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.It is time to head back to school and I have been working on getting files organized and figuring out the best way to do notes and activities. I am starting out simple this year and have used the paper tearing crayon to have kids color the crayon, write their...

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connecting the bottom of a zipper

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:01:08 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When kids are learning to fasten zippers, they first learn to move the zipper back and forth on items such as a purse or little zippered bag, or the little pig bank that I made. This is an activity that uses two hands and good hand positioning, and is linear...

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Summer button sunflower

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:57:23 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have been on a button activity kick for the past couple of months, and I just made a cute sunflower and a little blue forget-me-not flower. The sunflower has 10 buttons on the back to button on the flower petals, so it can be more of a challenge, but...

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Button challenge levels and an octopus buttoning activity

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:26:16 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love octopuses and think that they are really fascinating animals. Because of all of their many legs, they lend themselves well to being a buttoning activity. I love buttoning as a skill builder because it works on so many skills all rolled into one activity, and some of the...

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New button Ladybug

Therapy Fun Zone — Tue, 30 May 2023 03:05:26 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have not made any button activities for almost a year, and as the school year winds down and I see a light at the end of the tunnel with the potential for extra time on my hands during the summer, I decided to work on button activities. I made...

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Painting as a functional skill

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:05:50 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When you think of painting, you don’t immediately jump to using it as a functional ADL skill, but it can be. In my painting activity, I used plastic bowls to hold the paint, so the kids had to squeeze out the right amount of paint into the bowl. They then...

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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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Making button letters and names

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:07:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love working on skills while working on skills, so using letters and buttons together is a perfect combination. We can work on fine motor and motor planning skills while talking about letters and the letters of the child’s name. First you make a strip with buttons about 1 1/2...

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Clay Writing Board

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:25:27 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links. Have you ever wanted to add resistance for strengthening the writing muscles of the hands? Writing in clay is a perfect way to do this. This week we made letters out of clay/playdoh, and had the kids write letters on a clay tracing board. I used a little chalkboard...

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OT Flower Coloring Page

Therapy Fun Zone — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 02:45:38 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.It is always a good time to show your love of Occupational Therapy. I created a lovely flower around the shape of OT. You can print out the flower and color it yourself or have your patients color it. Coloring works on many skills such as fine motor, and visual...

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Bimanual Task Stencil Tracing on a Board

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 03:48:54 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Getting both hands to work together can be fun, and if you add a vertical surface, then you are able to really get some good bimanual practice. A great way to work both hands is to trace around a stencil on a vertical chalk board or white board. You have...

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