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Phonics Fun
Phonics Fun is an interactive and educational activity that can enhance a child's speech and language skills, as well as their cognitive abilities while playing a fun game!
Easy Handprint Cup
Here's a fun and adorable keepsake activity whole family will enjoy making together and Mom will love forever! Make a salt dough handprint bowl for Mother's Day!
Chalk Ice Painting
Here's a great way to use the small pieces of sidewalk chalk you have leftover from your amazing obstacle course: create Chalk Ice to use over the next few days!
Sidewalk Obstacle Course
Since it's fitness and sports month, we found this great idea to create a Sidewalk Chalk Obstacle Course to keep your kids—and the neighborhood kids, too— entertained for hours! Enjoy!
Follow the Path Maze Pack
This fun pack of mazes can help children improve or work on visual motor integration, visual perceptual skills, and fine motor skills.
Story Stones
Play this fun and easy game to work on and improve language development, articulation, and listening skills. Find this activity and many others in our app!
Animal Walk Relay Race
This game is great for gross motor development! Find this game and so much more in our mobile app!
Mother's Day Flowerpot Activity
This activity is wonderful for material management, organizational skills, tracing, drawing, cutting, gluing and motor planning skills! This is a great way to discuss flowers, colors, and everything our amazing mothers do for us!
Hand and Foot Hopscotch
Get active with this easy indoor hopscotch game! This activity focuses on the development of motor planning, differentiation between left and right, as well as visual processing.
Marble Painting
Use marbles and paint to create your own abstract art! This activity focuses on fine motor skills such as hand strength, bilateral coordination, in hand manipulation, visual tracking to watch marbles as they roll all over the paper, and determination of different sides of the body (left vs right).
Handprint Bouquet for Mother's Day
Use your hands and simple supplies for an easy Mother’s Day surprise! This fun craft focuses on the development of fine motor skills to cut, write, trace and fold the paper. Children work on visual motor skills and sequencing to create this craft.
Handprint Dish
Use clay to craft this useful and special gift! This activity aids in many areas of development including bilateral integration, hand and finger strengthening, sensory processing, fine motor skills, and visual motor skills.
Puddle Jumpers Board Game
Spring has sprung — and the frogs are ready to hop! In this playful movement and sensory game, kids take turns rolling dice and helping their frog leap from puddle to puddle on a rainy day path. Each roll leads to a movement, sensory, or motor challenge that supports developmental skills through fun, active play.
The ABCs of Coping
Kids can use this visual reference when they are in need of learning some coping skills that they can use when in moments of turmoil. Sometimes calming down can be difficult if they are experiencing sensory overload or in the midst of a meltdown.
Adventure Puzzle Pack
Our set of Adventure Puzzles provides interactive and engaging for kids which can enhance their visual perception, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive skills. Choose from six scenes to take you on an adventure in space, the forest, the jungle, underwater, or at a construction site.
Family Stress Management
Yoga is a great way to destress and using OTis, the OT gorilla, the whole family can have fun!
Finger Fidget Activity
Hand/finger fidgets also strengthen hand muscles that will develop the muscles of the hand for fine motor activities.
Caterpillar Feeding Gross Motor Game
All you’ll need to play this game is a box and the printable components provided. Kids get added benefits by folding and gluing or taping each leaf cube before playing.
Egg Color Sorting
Kids can practice verbalizing colors or sizes, since the tops/bottoms are not equal size. Draw patterns on the eggs to increase difficulty. Place egg parts on different sides of the room to incorporate gross motor skills.
Raincloud Name Craft
With the springtime season upon us, spring-themed crafts get help us get ready for the season. Use this craft to help kids learn how to spell their name (first, last, or both).