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This activity assists in improving the child's functional performance with snack preparation and encourages self feeding.
The child will receive proprioceptive input through the feet, the ankles, and the knees.
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".
This is a delicious activity. While this activity promotes tripod grasp and bilateral hand use, it is also a wonderful way to introduce new foods and textures to picky eaters or those children who love and enjoy fruit. Suggested fruit: cantaloupe, watermelon, mango, banana, grapes, plumes, and peaches (veggies are welcome as well).
This cold and fun activity helps in developing tripod grasp as well as sensory processing.
Manipulating straws and joint connectors helps in developing the small muscles of the hand. This activity is fun and allows the child to be creative.
This activity promotes the development of the cutting skill. Letting the child cut an easy media such as straws is a great way to introduce and practice cutting.
This activity provides proprioceptive input and helps in building upper extremity strength.
This is a great activity for hot summer days. This fun activity reinforces pincer grasp and assists in strengthening the arches of the hand. Playing with water also provides tactile input.
This activity enables the child to develop his upper body strength and receive proprioceptive input. It also gives the child an opportunity to work on maintaining eye contact.
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).
This activity helps in developing cutting skills.
In addition to the strengthening of the finger muscles, this activity helps in developing the child's cutting skills as the child imitates the cutting motion by using a single hole puncher.
This activity provides tactile and visual input. In addition, it reinforces letter or sight word recognition.
This activity works on finger motions that are similar to the ones used for cutting.