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Spring activities

Easter Preschool Morning Work by Andrea Marchildon | TpT

Work on pre-writing skills by creating Easter eggs with Wikki Stix for a fun way to support pre-writing skills through hands-on play. This activity helps children develop fine motor strength, visual-motor coordination, and pencil control by forming lines, curves, and shapes. Using Wikki Stix provides a sensory-based approach to tracing and line formation, making it an effective occupational therapy activity for handwriting readiness.

April

Color inside line

Printable Cursive Alphabet Tracing Pages - Handwriting Practice with Uppercase and Lowercase Letters #HandwritingPractice #ImproveYourHandwriting #PenmanshipGoals #HandwritingTips #HandwritingInspiration #HandwritingChallenge

Cursive

Do you ever find yourself putting off tasks that you know you need to do? Maybe you procrastinate until the last minute, feel guilty or ashamed about it, and then avoid the task altogether. You're not alone. Task avoidance is a common challenge for many of us, but it can be especially tough for neurodiverse people who may face additional hurdles due to executive dysfunction. But don't worry, breaking the cycle of task avoidance is possible, and in this post, we'll explore some strategies you can use to overcome this cycle and get things done.

Task avoidance

These Dolch Pre-Primer sight word boxes are great for reading centers, extra practice, substitute work, early finishers, morning or bell work, and so much more!Develop…

Letter size

Letter Sizing Worksheet #HandwritingPractice #ImproveYourHandwriting #PenmanshipGoals #HandwritingTips #HandwritingInspiration #HandwritingChallenge

Summer

Did you know strong hand arches are essential for fine motor skills like handwriting, cutting, and grasping small objects? ✋ This article explains why hand arches matter and shares fun fine motor activities to build hand strength in preschoolers. Click to learn more!

Arch development

Sasha Blanchard on Instagram: "#Repost @my_busy_kid BENEFITS OF USING Q-TIPS ⠀ ⭐️works on fine motor skills⠀ ⭐️develops and strengthens fine motor skills , look at the pinch their little fingers make⠀ ⭐️Improves Hand-eye coordination⠀ ⭐️keeps them focused ⠀ ⭐️enhances concentration ⠀ ⠀ And is a lot of fun !! Plus super simple to setup for us and that totally is a win-win situation ⠀ ⠀ Recommend age - 2+ yrs⠀ #simpleactivities #momlife #preschoolactivities"

Q tips

Cindy @ Your Kids OT ✏️🍪🇦🇺🐕 on Instagram: "FINE MOTOR SKILLS WITH WIKKI STICKS I have been trying to incorporate more activities that promote dynamic thumb movements (because so many children are holding their thumbs in a straight position for fine motor and pencil grasp with no movement). This activity has been really effective. The child scrunches a wikki stix in one hand (without using their body, the other hand or dropping the wikki stix). Lots of dynamic finger and thumb movements, inh

Wikki sticks

Fine Motor Activities for Morning Work Centers-Pokey Pin

Poke pen activities

These crossing midline activities support development of crossing the midline plays in functional tasks like learning and self care.

Here are red flags for crossing midline in preschoolers. This is a developmental stage in fine motor, gross motor, and visual motor skills and involves other areas like motor planning, sensory processing, and body awareness.

Crossing midline

These ABC Alphabet Hole Punch Fine Motor Cards For Letter Recognition are a great activity for practicing letter recognition/formation and fine motor skills!! This fun alphabet center is perfect for the preschool, pre-K classroom, kindergarten classroom, and homeschool moms!!

Uppercase & Lowercase Alphabet Hole Puncher Cards | School Time Snippets

Hole punch printable

Gross Motor Skills - Free Activities and Printables - Your Therapy Source

Fall

We are only about a month away from St. Patrick’s Day! Gross motor games with a St. Patrick’s Day theme are so much fun! They work great for the entire month of March! The clover hop was a hit! This time we are talking about the rainbow relay! It’s the perfect game for getting out …

St. Patrick's Day Centers and Activities - Pocket of Preschool

Puffy Paint Shamrock - Kid Craft Idea + Free Printable

March

Use these Finger isolation activities in occupational therapy to work on fine motor goals. Finger islation means the Isolation of one finger in movements needed to perform a task. Pointing with the index finger, wiggling the fingers individually, and counting out the fingers on your hand are finger isolation. This fine motor skill is needed for many functional activities: dexterity in managing pencils, paintbrushes, and other tools, typing on a keyboard, tying shoes, and many other tasks.

Finger isolation

There's a new twist in hand therapy. Puttycise is great for use with Theraputty to increase function and versatility. The knob turn is meant to simulate opening a door, tightening a jar, pushing a lid onto a container, tightening a valve, holding a glass of water, and opening makeup containers. Made of durable plastic.

Theraputty

Adaptive paper

Handwriting Reminder Sheets (SB5910) - SparkleBox

Writing self check list

rainbow writing and emerging writers

Emerging writers

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Garden

FREE printable Symmetry drawing activity for preschool and kindergarten kids. A fun art and math activity in one! Kids will complete the symmetrical pictures by drawing the other half.

Symmetry drawing

Recently, we’ve noticed that these terms Sensory Diet and Movement Break are often being used interchangeably, so we thought it would be a good idea to address the differences between the two!

Movement break

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