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Best Dad Award Craft
Looking for a simple and fun Father's Day craft? Create your own "Best Dad Award" using a paper plate and a few other easily accessed supplies.
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!
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!
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!
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.
Giant Paper Plate Memory Game
This activity focuses on fine and visual motor skills to color or trace shapes or letters. Children practice accuracy and identification of colors, letters, shapes, words, as well as working memory.
Dad You Rock - Father's Day Card
This activity focuses on fine motor skills to cut, write, draw, and fold the paper to make a card. Children engage visual motor skills and sensory input with different textures of the rocks and touch of the glue.
Pool Noodle Races
This activity focuses on problem solving, visual perceptual skills, and sensory motor skills such as using different weights or textures.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.