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Stuck in The Mud Letter Sizes
With the beginning of the school year, I wanted to start my therapy kids off making sure that they were on target with their letter size. I am continuing to develop things using my stuck in the mud...
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Making a Comfortable Weighted Pencil
Let’s talk about weighted pencils. Abby has a nice post about making weighted pencils. I have used weighted pencil kits to add weight onto a regular pencil, and I have seen the do it yourself pencil...
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Handwriting depends upon a solid base of support!
The eyes lead the body! This is a guest post by Katherine Collmer from Handwriting With Katherine. Did you know that efficient handwriting skills are first cousins to efficient postural skills? And...
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Using Paper Battleship to Work on Pencil Control
Last week I posted about regular (and mini) battleship games to work on fine motor skills and visual scanning, but have you ever played paper battleship to work on fine motor and writing skills? Paper...
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Ways to Encourage a Mature Grasp
When writing, the most efficient way to hold a pencil is using three fingers (index, middle, and thumb) on the pencil, and move just the fingers to make the letters (this is called a dynamic tripod...
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Writing Wizard App review
I have tried out several apps that work on letter writing, but many of them are too “baby” like for the kids I am working with. Your Therapy Source suggested the Writing Wizard App, and I thought I...
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Pencil Grips–Pros and Cons
Most kids do not need to use a pencil grip. I rarely recommend having a student use a special grip, and when I do recommend it, it means that the grip really does help. What are the determining factors...
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Snow Man and Hot Cocoa Fine Motor Activities
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)....
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Rainbow Puzzle game
I made a fun little game for spring with rainbows and words. I call it the rainbow puzzle game, and you can download it for free (you can also find it in the shops). You have to roll 3 dice first, a...
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Cursive Handwriting’s Link to The Leaning Tower of Literacy
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” (Frederick Douglass) One of my favorite quotes is from an article in the Journal of Education Psychology, titled “The Role of Mechanics in...
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I saw a cute little snow man mentioned on a teacher’s site, and I thought it would be perfect to use in therapy. The original source of the picture was from here, but I have made my own to cut out,...
View ArticleIn hand manipulation skills using broken crayons
In order to work on in-hand manipulation skills with some kids, I decided to use little pieces of broken off crayon. I had them hold two crayons at the same time, one in their palm, and one in their...
View ArticleStuck in The Mud Letter Sizes
School is just starting in my neck of the woods, so with the beginning of the school year, it’s time to start my therapy kids off by making sure that they are on target with their letter sizes. I love...
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Mature and refined grasp patterns, as well as in hand manipulation, require use of the small finger muscles, and they use the two sides of the hands separately. It can be challenging learning how to...
View ArticleColoring and Cutting Shapes for a Picture
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...
View ArticleCootie Catchers re-visited because I love them
Cootie catchers are great fun for kids to play, and they lend themselves very well to the learning environment. I use them in order to have kids work on writing within small designated spaces, and they...
View ArticleMaking heart butterflies
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...
View ArticleJenga Blocks Writing Game
At Christmas, I got my kids a generic Jenga game for really cheap, and I got myself an extra one because I knew that I would want to make a therapy game out of it. I didn’t give it much thought until I...
View ArticleCatch a Cloud and Pin it Down: Cloud Activities
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...
View ArticleNew Awesome Clothespin Tower Games
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...
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