Place two buckets in opposite sides of the room.
Fill one bucket with objects (Lego pieces, beads, plastic eggs, marbles, or anything that the child can pick up using tongs).
Have the child use the tongs to pick up an object from one bucket, run across the room, and drop it in the other bucket.
Place the objects in container or bucket full of sand or water.
Create an obstacle course for the child to go through.
Place a bucket, plastic container, basket, or any other container that could fit a few bean bags in it at the center of the room.
Place bean bags in different corners of the room.
Clear the area for a clear path to all bean bags.
Hold the child’s feet and ask the child to walk on his/her hands (a.k.a wheelbarrow walking).
Help the child to reach the bean bags by wheelbarrow walking towards the bean bags.
When the child reaches a bean bag, ask the child to place the bean bag on the back of the neck (resting between the shoulder blades).
Ask the child to wheelbarrow walk towards the container and drop the bean bag inside.
Repeat these steps until all the bean bags are in the container.
The leopard crawl is a military type-specific crawl that can increase shoulder strength by using the shoulder muscles to move forward.
Place an empty bucket at one side of the room and give the child a few small size balls (tennis balls, ping pong balls, cotton balls, etc.).
Ask the child to hold one ball in each hand while on his tummy and do a leopard crawl towards the empty bucket. The route to the bucket can go under a table, inside a tunnel, under chairs, or other obstacles for grading.
When the child reaches the bucket, ask the child to put the balls in it and crawl back to the start.
For proper crawl ensure the child is advancing an arm/elbow with the diagonal knee. When an elbow is placed forward, the diagonal knee is also placed forward, and then alternated with the other elbow and knee.
In a small and shallow container mix a few drops of food color with water.
Have the child squeeze the eyedropper to collect some colored water from the shallow container and then squeeze it again into the sections of the ice cube tray.
Once all the ice cube tray sections are filled, place the tray in the freezer.
For this activity, you need 2 players (adult and child or two children).
Sit or stand across from each other at a table.
Each person should hold a plastic cup in one hand.
One person rolls a marble to the other person at a slow pace.
The second person places their cup on top of the marble trapping the marble under the cup.
Then they push their cup towards the first person sending the marble rolling to them at a moderate pace.
Then the first person captures the marble and this back and forth game continues on.
This activity can be graded by using a tennis ball or a ping-pong ball instead of the marble as well as using a large round container instead of the plastic cup.
In addition, you can be rolling the ball fast or slow, follow a path when passing the ball from one another, catching the ball as it rolls off the edge of the table, or using your hands instead of cups.
