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OTPlan helps you find pediatric occupational therapy activity ideas by skills to promote and common everyday materials.

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September 28, 2018

Yarn Painting

This is a fun activity that helps to promote fine motor skills, such as cutting and grasping. It also provides the child with tactile input.

Skills: Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Cutting, Hand Dexterity, Pincer Grasp, Tactile Perception (?) Tactile Perception (sometimes referred to as touch perception) is the brain's ability to understand (perceive) what the hands are feeling.
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Fun activities and tools to develop and promote fine motor, visual motor, and sensory processing skills.

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Latest Occupational Therapy Activity Ideas

September 28, 2018

Motor Spider

Skills: Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Cutting, Fine Motor Control, Grasp, Tactile Perception (?) Tactile Perception (sometimes referred to as touch perception) is the brain's ability to understand (perceive) what the hands are feeling., Tripod Grasp, Visual Motor

Kids love spiders! This fun activity will help your child develop and promote fine motor skills and tactile perception.

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September 28, 2018

Mixed Clothespins

Skills: Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Distal Finger Control, Finger Strength, Grasp, Motor Planning, Thumb Opposition, Visual Perception

This activity works on thumb opposition as the child pinches the clothespins using the thumb and each finger in isolation.

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September 28, 2018

Ice Cream Scooper

Skills: Activities of daily living (ADL) (?) Activities of daily living (ADL) are routine activities that people tend do everyday without needing assistance. There are six basic ADLs: eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring (walking) and continence., Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Cutting, Eye-Hand Coordination, Fine Motor Control, Finger Strength, Forearm Pronation, Grasp, Pincer Grasp, Visual Motor

Scooping ice cream is a fun activity that promotes ADL skills. In this activity, we combine finger strength with the development of cutting skills, as the child makes his own ice cream in a cone.

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September 28, 2018

Clip the Kites

Skills: Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Cutting, Eye-Hand Coordination, Visual Motor

The activity is designed to develop and promote fine motor and visual motor skills, as well as to strengthen the finger muscles by manipulating school supplies.

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September 28, 2018

Small Button Box

Skills: Activities of daily living (ADL) (?) Activities of daily living (ADL) are routine activities that people tend do everyday without needing assistance. There are six basic ADLs: eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring (walking) and continence., Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Hand Dexterity, In-hand Manipulation, Motor Planning, Pincer Control, Pincer Grasp

The original purpose is for ADL skill of pre-buttoning however this activity has many applications.

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September 28, 2018

Cut Me a Slice

Skills: Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Cutting, Visual Motor

This activity promotes the child’s cutting skills, visual motor skills and bilateral use of hands. You can have the child cut different shapes (straight lines, curved lines, circles, or squares) based on the child’s developmental stage and abilities.

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September 28, 2018

Drawing in the Sand

Skills: Pre Writing

Practice imitating basic pre-writing shapes.

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September 28, 2018

Fall Leaves

Skills: Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Crossing Midline (?) The ability to move ones hands, feet, and eyes not only together, but across and to the other side of the body., Cutting, Fine Motor Control, Finger Strength, Grasp, Motor Planning, Pincer Grasp, Tripod Grasp, Visual Perception

This fall activity promotes pincer grasp by using tongs to move and glue leaves across midline.

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September 28, 2018

Wind Sock

Skills: Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Cutting, Fine Motor Control, Visual Motor

Create a Wind Sock using craft sticks, markers, toilet paper roll, glue, tape, string, and tissue paper. Promote fine motor control, cutting, bilateral hand use, and visual motor skills.

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September 28, 2018

Beads for All

Skills: Bilateral Hand Use (?) The use of both hands simultaneously, in a controlled manner, to perform an activity (i.e. clapping hands, using your one hand to hold a pencil while the other is used to stabilize the paper)., Distal Finger Control, Finger Translation, Hand Arches/Separation, In-hand Manipulation, Intrinsic Muscle Development, Pincer Grasp

This fun activity works on the small muscles of the hand and promotes pincer grasp.

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