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Water Safety Color Wheel

Did you know that certain colors have better visibility in water? During National Safety Month, we are featuring a fun way to learn about what colors create a safer situation for little swimmers!

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W-Sitting Activities & Correction

By strengthening the core musculature, children are less likely to revert to W sitting as a natural compensatory strategy. They will have the core strength, trunk stability, and proximal control to assist their body in maintaining position while they play, write, eat, color, read, and much more!

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Summertime Water Balloon Fun

Practice your eye-hand coordination with throwing at targets or trying to catch like a “hot potato”, visual-motor integration and fine motor control to fill the balloons, and sensory integration of textures and temperatures!

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Father’s Day Toolbox Craft

Make Dad feel appreciated this Father’s Day with this fun toolbox craft! It’s easy to make with our printable pieces. Just cut out the toolbox and tools, then add your own messages to personalize the box for Dad.

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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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