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Beach Ball Game

Work on gross motor skills with this easy and fun game! This activity focuses on developing hand eye coordination, balance, gross motor skills. The game can be graded to be more or less challenging depending on ability.

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Colorful Cream Sensory Bin

Use simple household ingredients for fun sensory play! This activity involves sensory motor integration, fine motor skills, as well as expressive and receptive language skills. Engage in imaginative play through drawing pictures or playing your own version of Pictionary!

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Therapeutic Kids Coloring Pages

Looking for a great summer indoor activity to aid in your child’s development?

Therapeutic Kids Coloring Pages are a creative activity that combines the fun of coloring with some of the principles of occupational therapy.

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Summer Activity List

Every child needs to stay active and experience new things to learn and enjoy during the summer. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with new ideas when you are in the moment. Make it easy with our summer activity list!

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Pipe Cleaner Sculptures

This simple activity emphasizes fine motor and concentration skills, while also promoting creativity. With no mess and just a few low-cost supplies you may already have around your home, the sky is the limit for kids to create!

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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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