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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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Easter Egg Writing Lines

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:44:10 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Easter is almost here so here is an Easter activity. It includes practice writing lines, coloring, cutting, and writing. You can choose a simple grouping of eggs to practice lines on and then color. It also has a place at the bottom of the picture to write some sentences. The...

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Make Button Flowers

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:58:02 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Flowers make a great spring time activity, and there are so many ways to incorporate flowers into therapy to work on fine motor, visual motor, and coordination. I have many flower activities, such as ones that use clothes pins, but today we are using buttons in our flower activity. It...

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Rainbow Fine Motor Activities with Q-tip Painting

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 05:19:02 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.It is fun to do rainbow activities as you can include color sorting and matching along with working on fine motor skills. I have done many different rainbow activities over the years, and have also incorporated a Q-tip painting template into my latest activity. Use a q-tip as your paint...

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Seasons Button Tree

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:46:17 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have added another button activity to my arsenal of fun things to button. This one is a seasonal tree, so you can button on the different seasons. It includes white snow for winter, green for spring, orange and red for fall, and fruit of red or orange for summer....

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A Bunch of Bee Themed Activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 02 May 2016 12:01:22 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.To work on pencil control, it really is great to do activities where you are having to control your pencil. For this I use pencil paths, pencil adventures, circles, and coloring. I really enjoyed using the flower honeycomb activity that I made for doing circles, and I wanted to have...

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Flower Pollen Honeycomb Fine Motor

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 03:59:48 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I was working with some kids the other day, and we were coloring flowers, working on holding the pencil in a good grasp, and getting some good strokes of the colored pencils, and one little guy was not able to move his fingers independently while he was coloring. I had...

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I Love Bugs in Activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 03:15:58 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love using bugs in my therapy activities, and the kids seem to like them too. We use them a lot in fine motor activities, and work in some larger muscle groups during our activities as well. Here are some of my favorite bug activities that I have done, and...

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Clothespin Flower Game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 05:12:18 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.It is time for spring and flowers, so how about a new clothespin game where you have to build the flower petal by petal and use the clothespin to hold the petals onto the flower. There are several different ways to play the game. The most simple way is to...

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Flower Writing Lines

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:33 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Spring is here and it is time to brighten things up with flower activities. I created a craft to draw on the flower petals, cut them out, and then glue them onto a paper. The petals have light lines to trace with zig-zags, loops, lines, and circles. I also included...

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Recycled Egg Carton Garden Games

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:00:03 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Pinching small objects is great for working on fine motor skills, so when I saw this cute carrot harvest idea on Powerful Mothering. I immediately thought it would be perfect for some of the kids that I work with. I wanted to give it more of a purpose for the...

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Raindrops Clothespin Fine Motor Game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.The raindrop clothespin game has a full game with game board, and it also has some simple clothespin matching activities. In both parts, you use clothespins to clip raindrops onto an umbrella. Here is the reversals umbrella free. For the matching part, there is a colorful rainbow umbrella that you...

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Rainbow Puzzle game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I made a fun little game for spring with rainbows and words. I call it the rainbow puzzle game, and you can download it for free (you can also find it in the shops). You have to roll 3 dice first, a number dice, a color dice, and a word...

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Coloring and Cutting Heart Bugs and Caterpillars

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:00:00 +0000

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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Balancing Bugs on a Leaf for Fine Motor

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Here is a cute little activity that combines in hand manipulation with fine motor control to place objects in just the right place. I made some leaves, printed them on cardstock, and laminated them to give them more strength. Then I balanced the leaf on a little cube. It is...

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Garden Bugs Fine Motor Game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I started working on a craft for cutting out bugs, and it morphed into a complete game that includes catching bugs and using clothespins to hold the bugs in the bug jar. I am thrilled with the little bug jar, and they can stand upright using a stand made out...

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Bugs In a Jar Craft

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

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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Tying Ribbon to Make a Spring Tree

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I loved the activity that I did where the kids had to tie ribbon onto a stick to make a tree. The activity turned out beautiful, and it really targeted the tying skill, which is usually a pretty difficult skill to attain. Since then, I have been thinking about other...

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Frog clothespin animal for finger strength

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I saw a picture of wooden frog pieces glued onto a clothespin on pinterest, and I thought that it was a great idea, and that I needed to make one for kids to play with when working with Clothespins and finger strengthening. I made the frog picture in photoshop, and...

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