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Fine Motor Pet Feeding

Therapy Fun Zone — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:20:02 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Animals are great fun for kids and can make it motivating to work on skills. I don’t have any real animals to work with, so I made some pet store animals for the kids to feed, use clothespins, and practice some writing. The activity is simple and cute. First you...

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I Love Using Color Pop

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:03:45 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I love using the color pop game in therapy. Ever since I created it, it has become my go to for many therapy sessions because it is so basic, and can be so easily modified to work on so many different areas that I want to address. Since I use...

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Flower Garden Fine Motor and Visual Motor Challenge

Therapy Fun Zone — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 21:36:05 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I was looking for an activity that would give a good challenge to the visual motor system as well as challenge fine motor control. I wanted quite a bit of visual motor reaching and grasping while in prone. In one school that I work in, I have access to suspended...

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Wild Animal Clothespin Game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:14:30 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.One of our favorite games is the Ocean Animal Clothespin game, so I made a variation of the game named the Wild Animal Clothespin Game, with some different animals so the kids can enjoy working on finger strengthening using clothespins while having fun. We also have some question cards and...

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Clothesline Matching

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:00:20 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.A simple and fun activity for young kids is hanging play clothes on a clothesline. This activity happens to be great for targeting fine motor skills, finger strength, and visual perception. It is a lot harder than you think to hold clothes up to the clothesline, get it in the...

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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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Sugar Bugs Clothespin Game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:00:52 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have been meaning to make a clothespin game with bugs and their legs (the clothespins) for a while, and have just finished it. It combines two of the kids’ favorite things, sugar and bugs. This game is great for any time of the year since there is no time...

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Build a Catapult

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:00:16 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.We did a craft this week that was a build your own catapult. We made it from a catapult kit, and it involved placing pegs in holes and putting the pieces together. It would be a great activity for older kids to follow directions and work on putting together an...

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20 + Small Manipulatives for Fine Motor

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 08:00:05 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When looking in my therapy bag, there are a few things that I always have with me. For higher level fine motor work, I always like to have small little manipulatives and some Training Chopsticks. I have posted about these items before, but they really are a great go to...

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Can we practice handwriting without a pencil, please?

Katherine Collmer — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:00:55 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.Let me start by saying that I’m probably one of the few pediatric occupational therapists who needs help with arts and crafts! No, seriously! I am so thankful for the many wonderful websites and blogs whose authors share some of the most incredible activity ideas with me! And, Pinterest? Well,...

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Guess Who Clothespin Game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:00:43 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.This is a guest post by Donna Abramson, OTR Opening and closing clothespins is a wonderful way for children to develop strength in the muscles of their hand, particularly the webspace – which helps them to hold the pencil with a correct tripod grip. Using clothespins also helps children to...

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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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Pond Jump Fine Motor Game With Munchy Ball

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I have been doing a lot with Munchy Ball and realized that he could easily be incorporated into games the same way that I use clothespins in games. Munchy Ball is a ball with eyes, and a mouth cut into it that opens his mouth when you squeeze the ball....

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Snow Man and Hot Cocoa Fine Motor Activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I live in sunny Southern California, so we have to pretend that we have snow. We can still enjoy some hot cocoa even though the temperatures are in the 70s. (I even wear a sweatshirt in the mornings). The rest of the country has lots of snow, so making snow...

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End of the year favorite activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.The end of the year is here, and it is time once again to sum up the year and post a list of my favorite activities of the year. As I look through the activities I find that I am surprised that it was only this year that I did...

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Bug Splat Race Clothespin Games

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I was searching for small rolling toys to use in a game and I came across these Cars Micro Drifters. They didn’t work for the game I was looking to use them for, but they were the perfect size and have a roller ball under them, so they move exactly...

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Ice Cream Sundae Clothespin Game

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When I was making my Clothespin Tower Games, one of the games is a game about building an ice cream sundae. The game easily translates into a flat game without the tower, so I thought that at times I would prefer to use it that way. It is exactly like...

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New Awesome Clothespin Tower Games

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.When I am looking at the basic clothespin game that has been used through the ages, most of them are simple matching games on the side of a can. I wanted to take the concept of my flat clothespin games, and merge it with the concept of the can type...

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Catch a Cloud and Pin it Down: Cloud Activities

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.I found this book called Cloudination at the AOTA conference, and it was such a simple and unique idea that would work well in some therapy situations. The book has pictures of clouds, and you draw what you see in the clouds with a dry erase marker. The book is...

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Simple matching with clothespins

Therapy Fun Zone — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000

This post may contain affiliate links.This is a very simple activity that is easily used with a scooterboard or other motor activity. You start with clothespins at one end of the room with numbers written on them. The child attaches the clothespins to the bottom of their shirt. You could have a ribbon for them...

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