Finger puppets for isolating fingers, OT

Finger puppets…notice the bumblebee…he will get used in my lava/worm/bee paper. I bought several. Tonya, I’ll be sending you one shortly in your promised package. Libby – you may have to beg me, solely because I freaking hate putting packages together. 🙂 From Party City. Can use to isolate finger..

OT, Kids, and Bugs = Perfect Combination

All my kids love bugs/insects. I use most of these for tong/tweezer activities, and sometimes as characters for our games, if it’s just the two of us, to make it more interesting. Went a little bug-crazy today. Hey whatever works to keep our OT kids interested 🙂

Dollar Target Bins, OT dreams do come true…

All from dollar bins at Target. Lots of sticker books, sketch pad and writing pads…

Finger Sports: Bowling, OT

Sometimes Blogger perplexes me. So I’m adding a caption since I can’t figure out how to write text. I have never tried this, but finger sports/bowling seems like it might be cool 🙂 Update in July: I have tried this and it’s not that easy for my little ones. I think this was a relatively cheap purchase, luckily. They do better with tossing it almost rather than trying to “flick” at it. I do like that this has a fine motor component as well as a visual motor component, having to precisely put the pieces up without knocking them all over, eyeing and projecting where your ball will go to hit the pieces, etc.

Pictionary, Tangoes, and Dot to Dot, for OT

So I finally gave in and bought some Tangoes. For the visual perceptual/visual motor piece. And then a big ol’ pad of Dot to Dot, to make patterns and have the child copy it. These will be quite challenging though, so I’ll be grading it down in difficulty. Also a special version of Pictionary where you use pre-assembled pictures rather than your own. Hmm.

Squinkies for OT

Squinkies …never heard of them until today. I don’t have kids, and I live under a rock. But these seemed super cute. Basically tiny figurines in little pod things. I’ll definitely be using this as a tong/tweezer task….

Star Wars and OT :)

Star wars haul. I may have gone a little crazy here. Party City and Target. BUT Target was having a SALE on Star War thingies and that NEVER happens, Star Wars crap is always super expensive. So I got a bunch of stuff – a lot of tiny characters that can go in little circle pod thingies – can use with tongs, or for a 5 minute “free choice”, or who knows. Many options.

Squishy balls for OT

What else can I say. Squishy balls. All were a dollar or so at Target. I try to pick them up when cheap (Gosh I probably have like 20 + now) since often they are like 4 or 5 dollars.  Good for throwing/catching and sensory stuff. 🙂

Super Mario for OT…mostly bribery in this case

I am sure there are awesome ways to use super mario bros in therapy (my kids love it) and I am sure I’ll work on it but for now – SNERDLES – are little tiny fruit strips wtih mario stuff on them (those question mark boxes all are filled with snerdles, plus I have some loose ones. HOLY COW MY CAT JUST KNEADED BISCUITS ON ME WITH NO WARNING AND DREW BLOOD THANKS  LOT STRAY CAT ANYWAY also Mario stickers. All of this is reward stuff. Not that you should use candy as a reward ::straight face::

Angry Birds, OT style :)

Angry birds haul from target and party city.