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This activity addresses finger isolation, direction following, and color recognition by playing a mini twister game.
Skills: Body Awareness, Cutting, Finger Isolation, Motor Planning, and Visual Motor
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).
Skills: Bilateral Hand Use, Cutting, Fine Motor Control, Hand Arches/Separation, Tripod Grasp, and Visual Motor
This activity provides tactile and visual input. In addition, it reinforces letter or sight word recognition.
Skills: Stereognosis, Visual Memory, and Writing
This is a fun and creative activity that works on tolerating tactile input and finger isolation.
Skills: Finger Isolation, and Tactile Perception
The child will be working on receiving and processing propreoceptive input while laying prone on the therapy ball. This activity also works on trunk control and upper extremities strengthening.
Skills: Head/Neck Extension, Motor Planning, Proprioception , Sensory Processing, and Upper Body Strength
This activity will help to improve attention, especially visual attention by lining up items.
Skills: Eye-Hand Coordination, Pincer Grasp, and Visual Motor
In this activity, the child will use tweezers to transfer and manipulate small objects.
Skills: Core Strengthening, Fine Motor Control, and Pincer Grasp
This creation builds muscle strength in the hands and fingers. It is also a visually satisfying creation. All ages can participate in this activity.
Skills: Crossing Midline, Eye-Hand Coordination, Finger Strength, Hand Arches/Separation, and Visual Motor
The child will work on letter recognition, letter formation, and letter placement/sizing.
Skills: Fine Motor Control, Visual Motor, and Visual Perception
This activity works on fine manual control skills by cutting and folding construction paper to make a decorated lunch box.
Skills: Cutting, Eye-Hand Coordination, Fine Motor Control, Motor Planning, and Visual Motor