Fun Foam Archives - Therapy Fun Zone https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/category/craft/materials/fun-foam/ Where Play is FUNctional Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:05:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-tfz-icon-copy-copy-32x32.png Fun Foam Archives - Therapy Fun Zone https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/category/craft/materials/fun-foam/ 32 32 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 Practicing Letters and Finger Strengthening https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/practicing-letters-finger-strengthening/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/practicing-letters-finger-strengthening/#respond Sun, 15 May 2016 17:36:47 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=9589 This post may contain affiliate links.Resistance keeps your muscles strong, and the little muscles in the fingers need to work and get strong along with the rest of the muscles of your body. I love having kids get letters randomly in order to practice writing the letters and words, since the randomness is somehow more...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/practicing-letters-finger-strengthening/feed/ 0 Fun foam on the Mirror https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-foam-mirror/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-foam-mirror/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2015 09:00:57 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=8744 This post may contain affiliate links.One of my absolute favorite activities with young kids is playing with fun foam shapes on a mirror. It works well in the bathtub, shower, or on a glass door too. You spay the glass surface with water (great squeezing activity) and then the foam shapes will stick to the...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fun-foam-mirror/feed/ 0 Munchy Ball Dress Up and New Colored Balls https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-dress-new-colored-balls/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-dress-new-colored-balls/#respond Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:00:56 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=8078 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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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/munchy-ball-dress-new-colored-balls/feed/ 0 Fine Motor and Letters With Munchy Ball https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-and-letters-with-munchy-ball/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-and-letters-with-munchy-ball/#respond Mon, 19 May 2014 08:00:05 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=7443 This post may contain affiliate links.I wanted to use the Munchy Ball in a new game with letters so that we could practice writing and build fine motor skills and hand strength at the same time. I started with just cutting foam squares from different colors and writing letters on them.  I also made a...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/fine-motor-and-letters-with-munchy-ball/feed/ 0 Craft Jack-O-Lantern using pins and face parts for fine motor skills https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/craft-jack-o-lantern-using-pins-and-face-parts-for-fine-motor-skills/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/craft-jack-o-lantern-using-pins-and-face-parts-for-fine-motor-skills/#respond Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=4061 This post may contain affiliate links.I was in a speech therapist’s room this week and she had a foam craft pumpkin with foam jack-o-lantern face parts stuck on using velcro.  This was cute, and I was just going to show pictures of her pumpkin, and then I found some foam face parts at Michaels.  I...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/craft-jack-o-lantern-using-pins-and-face-parts-for-fine-motor-skills/feed/ 0 Pool Writing Using Sponges https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/pool-writing-using-sponges/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/pool-writing-using-sponges/#respond Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:00:00 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=3771 This post may contain affiliate links.The pool is a fun and important place to spend time in during the summer months. You can add some fun word activities and even incorporate some writing to the fun of summer. I cut up some packs of sponges (but you could use craft foam just as easily) into...

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]]> https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/pool-writing-using-sponges/feed/ 0 Foam and duct tape pencil case https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/foam-and-duct-tape-pencil-case/ https://therapyfunzone.net/blog/foam-and-duct-tape-pencil-case/#respond Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:00:24 +0000 http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/?p=657 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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