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Scissor Cutting Shapes: Pizza

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 01 May 2017 04:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When working on cutting skills, it is fun to create something out of what you cut. This week I had some of my students make some pizza. I made a template for the shapes needed to make the pizza, and they traced the shapes, cut them out and glued them...

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Scissor Cutting Turkey Template

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:13:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Making Turkeys for Thanksgiving is a great time to incorporate a lot of skills into your therapy session. I love that the feathers are perfect for writing on and being able to create a thankful craft. Cutting with scissors is a skill that works on bimanual skills, motor planning, fine...

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Coloring and Cutting Shapes for a Picture

Therapy Fun Zone — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:25:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.For this activity, we are incorporating very simple coloring and cutting of easy shapes. Then you can put those shapes together to make a pretty picture to take home. Two simple designs to choose from are a flower or a butterfly. With the flower, you have a circle for the...

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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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Weavable Toys by The Recycling OT

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:42:06 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I am sure that you have heard of The Recycling OT (and if not, then you need to come play on the internet more). Barbara’s (the recycling OT) claim to fame, and what she does best is cut up plastic detergent bottles to make toys and activities. She has a...

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Making heart butterflies

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.For a fun craft this year, I had the kids color hearts, cut them out, and make butterflies out of them. I think that they made adorable little love bugs. Maybe next I will create different bugs to be cut out, but for now it is butterflies. I had the...

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Paper folded flowers

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

This post may contain affiliate links.I like to work on many skills within the same activity, and these folded flowers definitely do that. I discovered these via pinterest, and they are originally on Whimsical World of Laura Bird. I often have kids that need to work on writing small enough to fit into a specified...

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Jack-O-Lantern cutting and gluing

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Halloween is right around the corner, so here is a pumpkin template to cut out and glue on a piece of paper. Cut out the eyes, nose, and mouth, and glue them on. There is a white pumpkin in case you want your students to color it too. I then...

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Building Animal Faces With Shapes

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

This post may contain affiliate links.I have been working with several kids who have visual perceptual problems, and they have a hard time with some of the simple tasks. I am working on getting back to basics with them so that we can build on it. I wanted to have them put together shapes to...

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Caterpillar

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:58:33 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Here is a post submitted by a reader: This is a good activity for drawing circles, handwriting, and cutting, as well as pattern recognition. I created a “caterpillar head” print out and have the kids each color and cut out the head. Then, they choose three colors of construction paper...

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Play Doh Cake With Candles for Fine Motor

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Of course, playdoh is a great toy for strengthening, but if you add candles, it can be good for in hand manipulation too. Make a cake out of playdoh, model magic, or any clay of your choice. Put some candles in the cake. They can be real or fake. Toothpicks...

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Flower Bouquet

Therapy Fun Zone — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:40:02 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Here is an activity to make a paper flower bouquet. I created some flower templates, but my daughter said that they were too hard, so I simplified them, and these ones are much easier. You could print the template one time onto card stock and then have the student trace...

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Snowflake Cutting

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Cutting out snowflakes is a winter tradition. Some clients will be able to cut them out with just a demonstration of how to fold and cut the shapes, but for younger clients, you can draw the shapes onto the paper and have them cut out the shapes. These work best...

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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 designs — car

Therapy Fun Zone — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have created more scissor cutting designs. Have the client color it in, cut out the shapes and glue it all together. Here is a car design. Here is the link to the PDF finished sample. here is the PDF for the cut out template.

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Drawing flowers and cutting

Therapy Fun Zone — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:17:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I often as a basic skills task have my students draw flowers, color them and then cut them out. It is a task that I can have most of my kids in therapy do and then modify it for difficulty and change things if I want to work on one...

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