Cut the Line
At the edge of each line put a sticker and ask the child to cut along the line you drew all the way up to the sticker.
When the child is able to cut along an index card easily, repeat the activity using a paper.
Material: Markers
Stick Animals
For each animal, you will need to use 1 craft stick and 3 pipe cleaners.
The craft stick will be used as the animal’s body and the pipe cleaners will be used as the front and back legs, as well as the tail.
Let the child find the middle point of the pipe cleaner.
Ask the child to twist the pipe cleaner around the craft stick from both ends of the pipe cleaner along one side of the craft stick.
Ask the child to stop twisting the pipe cleaner when about 1.5″ is left from each side. These can be shaped like the legs by bending the ends of the pipe cleaner forward.
Repeat the pipe cleaner twisting above on the other end of the craft stick.
Cut a small piece of the 3rd pipe cleaner and let the child glue it to the end of the craft stick. This will be used as the animal’s tale.
The child can now draw a face on the front end of the craft stick or use stickers to decorate his animal.
Bean Mosaic
On a sheet of construction paper, sketch a simple picture, or allow the child to draw a picture/shape.
Using the glue, instruct the child to trace the outline of the picture.
Once the picture is outlined with glue, ask the child to pick up one bean or button at a time, and glue it along the outline of the picture.
If you wish to promote translation skills (finger to palm and palm to finger), ask the child to pick up 2 or more beans, transferring them one at a time into the palm of their hand, then transfer them out, one at a time, to be glued on the outline.
Let the child continue pasting the reminder of the beans on the picture, putting the beans close to each other.
To grade the activity up, provide the child with tweezers to pick up the beans.
Use larger buttons or pom-poms to grade the activity down.
Easter Eggs Match
Cut the construction paper or regular piece of white paper into 6 or more rectangles/cards.
On each card, draw an oval (egg shape) with a line in the middle, to represent the top part of the egg and the bottom part.
Using crayons and marker that match the color of the Easter eggs you are using, color the eggs on the cards, using one color at the top part and a different color at the bottom part.
Present the cards and the “cracked” easter eggs to the child and instruct the child to put the eggs together by matching the colors as shown on the cards.
If using an egg carton, you can ask the child to arrange the matched eggs in the same order the cards are laid on the table.
Leveled Cup
Fill the empty water bottle with colored water using food coloring.
Use different color masking tape or markers to mark water levels on the paper cups.
Make sure to mark the levels on the higher side. This will help achieve full forearm pronation.
Ask the child to take the filled bottle and fill the cups up until the water reaches the marker.
Encourage proper pronation of the wrist while filling the paper cups.
For grading, use a squirt bottle to work on finger strengthening as the child is squeezing the water out of the bottle to fill up the cups.