Paper - OTPlan https://otplan.com/material/paper/ OTPlan - Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities & Ideas for Parents Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/otplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-72dpi_OT-full.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Paper - OTPlan https://otplan.com/material/paper/ 32 32 163641829 The Supine Tape Rescue https://otplan.com/activity/the-supine-tape-rescue/ https://otplan.com/activity/the-supine-tape-rescue/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:32 +0000 https://otplan.com/activity/the-supine-tape-rescue/ This activity is fantastic for building shoulder strength and stability. By lying on their back and reaching up, your child is working against gravity. This helps prepare their tiny muscles for bigger tasks like writing and drawing. It also improves their ability to coordinate what they see with how they move their hands. Plus, it’s a fun way to explore different textures like feathers or ribbons!

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]]> https://otplan.com/activity/the-supine-tape-rescue/feed/ 0 5013934 The Bubble Wrap Printmaker https://otplan.com/activity/the-bubble-wrap-printmaker/ https://otplan.com/activity/the-bubble-wrap-printmaker/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:54:05 +0000 https://otplan.com/activity/the-bubble-wrap-printmaker/ This activity is a wonderful way to explore textures. It helps your child understand how much pressure to use. Painting the bubbles requires focus and small movements. Pressing and peeling the paper involves both hands working together. The result is a cool, textured piece of art!

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]]> https://otplan.com/activity/the-bubble-wrap-printmaker/feed/ 0 5012204 Laundry Basket Skee-Ball https://otplan.com/activity/laundry-basket-skee-ball/ https://otplan.com/activity/laundry-basket-skee-ball/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:09:00 +0000 https://otplan.com/?post_type=activities&p=4010899 This activity is a fun, physically engaging game that helps children practice controlling their body movements and aiming. By rolling sock "balls" up a ramp into baskets of different distances, they learn to adjust the force of their throws to reach a specific target.

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]]> https://otplan.com/activity/tower-sticker-challenge/feed/ 0 5011328 Color Codes https://otplan.com/activity/color-codes/ https://otplan.com/activity/color-codes/#respond Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:54:49 +0000 https://otplan.com/?post_type=activities&p=4010551 This activity provides opportunities for fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, and problem-solving skills.

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]]> https://otplan.com/activity/color-codes/feed/ 0 4010551 Size Triangles https://otplan.com/activity/size-triangles/ https://otplan.com/activity/size-triangles/#respond Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:47:51 +0000 https://otplan.com/?post_type=activities&p=4010541 This activity provides opportunities for fine motor and visual motor skills.

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]]> https://otplan.com/activity/size-triangles/feed/ 0 4010541 Flying Unicorn https://otplan.com/activity/flying-unicorn/ https://otplan.com/activity/flying-unicorn/#respond Wed, 17 Jun 2020 22:26:38 +0000 https://otplan.com/?post_type=activities&p=9099 This activity promotes fine motor skills, such as lacing, tying, cutting, squeezing, and gluing.

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]]> https://otplan.com/activity/flying-unicorn/feed/ 0 9099 Snowflake Sisters https://otplan.com/activity/snowflake-sisters/ https://otplan.com/activity/snowflake-sisters/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:39:16 +0000 https://otplan.com/?post_type=activities&p=8581 This activity promotes fine motor skills (i.e. cutting with child-sized scissors, drawing with markers, squeezing a glue bottle, and manipulating painting utensils) involved in academics. In addition, it addresses sensory play through interaction with glue, salt, and watercolor textures. 

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]]> https://otplan.com/activity/snowflake-sisters/feed/ 0 8581 Newspaper Dance https://otplan.com/activity/newspaper-dance/ https://otplan.com/activity/newspaper-dance/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:01:07 +0000 https://otplan.com/?post_type=activities&p=8485 This activity addresses core strengthening, motor planning, and ideation by having the child stand on a newspaper page (or paper bag) at all times. The newspaper page (or paper bag) will be folded after every round, so this gets tricky!

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]]> https://otplan.com/activity/newspaper-dance/feed/ 0 8485 Cutting Dr. Seuss’s Hat https://otplan.com/activity/cutting-dr-seusss-hat/ https://otplan.com/activity/cutting-dr-seusss-hat/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2020 05:39:33 +0000 https://otplan.com/?post_type=activities&p=7996 We're making Dr. Seuss's hat to practice cutting skills and promote eye-hand coordination, and bilateral hand use.

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