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Father's Day Crafts

Father's Day is June 19 — Here are some fun and inexpensive ideas to gift that special dad, grandpa, uncle, brother, etc. Make an adorable card as a stand-alone gift or to go with your gift; use a footprint for the body and a handprint for the cape!

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OT Animals

While you're outside, have some fun with these OT exercises. Therapists create some great gross motor exercise worksheets that target individual occupational therapy goals and incorporate unique learning styles.

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Water Play!

Take advantage of being outside before it gets too hot!

Children love water play activities during hot weather, and many of them enhance gross motor skills.

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Water Cup Racing

Get your summer started with this easy to set up game!

This activity focuses on auditory processing, gross motor skills, coordination, balance, motor planning, bilateral integration, visual perceptual skills, and hand and finger strength.

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Father's Day Popsicle Craft

This activity works in visual motor integration to promote coloring in the lines. It also prompts creativity and the use of descriptive language skills to pick and identify what they want to add onto the picture to make it uniquely theirs!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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