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Quick, easy, creative activity: Visual-motor rubber band play

by hellokaren | Aug 11, 2014 | Occupational Therapy

Quick, Easy, Creative OT. Use rubber bands to work on visual-motor skills! This can be fun and imaginative and a great idea when your options are limited. You can have the child “create” something such as the dog paw seen above on the right, or you can...

How To Use A Single Toy To Work on Any Motor Skill

by hellokaren | Jan 8, 2014 | Occupational Therapy

    http://www.melissaanddoug.com/bead-sequencing-learning-set   I recently wrote Melissa and Doug (an amazing high quality brand that is in like every store you will ever walk into, except well, gas stations or something), and let them know I love...

Cutting/fine motor manipulation/imagination: OT Activity

by hellokaren | Jan 2, 2014 | Occupational Therapy

  ACTIVITY 1. Take dinosaur post-it or other random animal paper. Child cuts across animal. 2. Child is veterinarian and fixes animal. (Skim over the fact we were directly responsible for its hurt, cough). 3. Give child a band-aid. 4. Child puts animal pieces...

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