﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Search for Occupational Therapy activity ideas by skills and materials | OTPlan</title><link>http://www.otplan.com</link><description>We match the skills you want to work on, with the materials you have, to a detailed treatment activity that will help you strengthen certain skills. Each activity details the purpose, materials needed, process, rating for the activity, and comments by people just like you.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>(c) 2010, OTPlan, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.</copyright><ttl>5</ttl><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/touch-and-match.aspx#comments</comments><title>Touch and Match</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/touch-and-match.aspx</link><description>This activity provides the child with tactile input as he  digs in the selected media to find matching objects. The goal is to have the child use an appropriate grasp while pulling the object out.</description><category>Grasp</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual Perception</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/yarn-painting.aspx#comments</comments><title>Yarn Painting</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/yarn-painting.aspx</link><description>This is a fun activity that helps to promote fine motor skills, such as cutting and grasping. It also provides the child with tactile input.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Hand Dexterity</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/fall-trees.aspx#comments</comments><title>Fall Trees</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/fall-trees.aspx</link><description>This is a fun and creative activity that works on tolerating tactile input and finger isolation.</description><category>Finger Isolation</category><category>Tactile Perception</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/matching-color-cups.aspx#comments</comments><title>Matching Color Cups</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/matching-color-cups.aspx</link><description>Work on forearm pronation, supination and grasp</description><category>Forearm Pronation</category><category>Forearm Supination</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Proprioception </category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/dot-dot-paint.aspx#comments</comments><title>Dot Dot Paint</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/dot-dot-paint.aspx</link><description>Develop your child's fine motor skills and strengthen grasp and manual control.</description><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Hand Dexterity</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/colorful-bookmark.aspx#comments</comments><title>Colorful Bookmark</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/colorful-bookmark.aspx</link><description>In this activity the child will work on developing his fine motor skills through drawing, cutting, and pasting stickers as he creates a colorful bookmark.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Hand Dexterity</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/snack-time.aspx#comments</comments><title>Snack Time</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/snack-time.aspx</link><description>This activity assists in improving the child's functional performance with snack preparation and encourages self feeding.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Sequencing</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/sensory-salad.aspx#comments</comments><title>Sensory Salad</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/sensory-salad.aspx</link><description>In this activity the child gets to use his imagination as he works on promoting his fine motor skills and his ability to process tactile input. This is a fun activity to do in a small group for social interaction and promotion of language.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Sensory Processing</category><category>Social Interaction</category><category>Tactile Perception</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/textured-paper-painting.aspx#comments</comments><title>Textured Paper Painting</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/textured-paper-painting.aspx</link><description>This activity allows the child to create a unique paper texture. The goal is to promote the child's fine motor skills and control by utilizing both hands, cutting, and painting. The use of finger paint allows the child to work on processing tactile input.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Pre-writing</category><category>Sensory Processing</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Tripod Grasp</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/tactile-paint.aspx#comments</comments><title>Tactile Paint</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/tactile-paint.aspx</link><description>This activity promotes the child visual motor skills and improves finger isolation. In addition, the child also works on processing of tactile input as he moves his fingers along the paint.</description><category>Finger Isolation</category><category>Pre-writing</category><category>Sensory Processing</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/recycled-jug-catcher.aspx#comments</comments><title>Recycled Jug Catcher</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/recycled-jug-catcher.aspx</link><description>In this activity, the child will practice his eye-hand coordination skills in addition to developing his fine motor skills.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Hand Arches/Separation</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Visual Perception</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/tactile-cotton-sheep.aspx#comments</comments><title>Tactile Cotton Sheep</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/tactile-cotton-sheep.aspx</link><description>In this creative activity the child has the opportunity to practice his cutting skills and pincer grasp. The soft cotton balls provide tactile input.</description><category>Cutting</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual-motor</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/tactile-bowl.aspx#comments</comments><title>Tactile Bowl</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/tactile-bowl.aspx</link><description>This fun and sticky activity is great for the development of the child's tactile skills. Together with an adult's help, the child can create a colorful bowl and practice cutting skills and pincer grasp as well. </description><category>Cutting</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/cut-me-a-tree.aspx#comments</comments><title>Cut Me a Tree</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/cut-me-a-tree.aspx</link><description>This activity involves tracing and cutting, and is great for the development of visual motor skills.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Crossing Midline</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Visual Perception</category><category>Visual-motor</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/rainbow-of-skills.aspx#comments</comments><title>Rainbow of Skills</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/rainbow-of-skills.aspx</link><description>This is a fun activity that promotes the child's fine motor skills and works mainly on bilateral use of hands and pincer grasp as the child tears the construction paper into small pieces.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Hand Dexterity</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Sequencing</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/matching-socks-game.aspx#comments</comments><title>Matching Socks Game</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/matching-socks-game.aspx</link><description>This fun activity works mainly on visual memory, matching, and categorization. The activity allows the child to take part in household chores and it also provides a great opportunity to spend special time with caregivers.</description><category>Crossing Midline</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Visual Memory</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/make-a-puzzle.aspx#comments</comments><title>Make a Puzzle</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/make-a-puzzle.aspx</link><description>This activity develops fine motor control (coloring within the lines of simple shape), attention to task and following of multi-step directions (following prompts such as "color the star yellow"), fine motor skills (cutting) and visual motor skills (putting puzzle together).</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Hand Arches/Separation</category><category>Tripod Grasp</category><category>Visual-motor</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/your-very-own-fish-tank.aspx#comments</comments><title>Your Very Own Fish Tank</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/your-very-own-fish-tank.aspx</link><description>This activity develops pre-writing skills (drawing a face), imitation skills (copying from a model), fine motor skills (cutting and pincer grasp) as well as hand strength and control.  Children are motivated to complete this activity and will be pleased that they have their own "pet".</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Hand Arches/Separation</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Pre-writing</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/cut-me-a-slice.aspx#comments</comments><title>Cut Me a Slice</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/cut-me-a-slice.aspx</link><description>This activity promotes the child's cutting skills, visual motor skills and bilateral use of hands. You can have the child cut different shapes (straight lines, curved lines, circles, or squares) based on the child's developmental stage and abilities. </description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Visual-motor</category></item><item><comments>http://www.otplan.com/plans/strengthening-clothespins.aspx#comments</comments><title>Strengthening Clothespins</title><link>http://www.otplan.com/plans/strengthening-clothespins.aspx</link><description>This fun activity promotes the child's finger strength through the play with clothespins. The child will also strengthen color matching skills.</description><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Visual Perception</category></item></channel></rss>