The way the eyes guide the hands to do a task. This helps your child catch a ball, write on a line, or stack blocks without knocking them over.
On a thick piece of paper, draw a line.
Give your child a bowl of beans, beads, buttons, or large seeds.
Ask the child to place them one after the other on the line you drew.
For grading, you can make the task a little more difficult with a circle, or any other shape. In addition, you could ask the child to use tweezers to pick up and line up the items on the line.
For this activity you could use different types of fruit and vegetables. If the child has difficulty completing the activity with potatoes, you can use a softer fruit like bananas.
Cover a strip of thick cardboard or card, and draw boxes like those shown in the picture.
Cut small potatoes into halves and quarters so that they can stand without rocking or tipping.
Place one potato wedge on every box and number each box.
Now your child can stick in the right number of toothpicks into each potato.
For grading: Use random numbers instead of numbers in a sequence.
On a brown construction paper, trace the child’s hand or have the child trace his own hand using the pen/markers/crayons.
Make sure the thumb is extended and the fingers are spread apart while tracing the hand.
Let the child cut the traced hand. This will be the turkey’s body.
Glue the traced hand in the middle of the paper plate.
Use one bean as the turkey’s eye and glue it on the traced thumb. On the rest of the fingers, let the child glue feathers.
Take a piece of orange or red tissue paper and let the child crumble it. Glue the crumbled piece as the turkey’s wattle.
Using the markers or the crayon, let the child draw the turkey’s legs.
Have the child lie on the floor in prone.
Give the child a ball.
Begin by rolling the big therapy ball across the floor in front of the child.
The object of the game is for the child to roll her ball and hit the moving therapy ball.
As the child becomes successful, decrease the size of both balls.
varying the size of either the therapist or student rolled the ball, varying the speed of the therapist rolled ball or changing the distance between the child and the ball. The position can be varied as well.
Using a paper cup, a styrofoam plate, or a piece of play dough, instruct the child to place the spaghetti vertically.
Provide the child with cheerios or beads and have him string the small objects onto the spaghetti.
If using different color beads or cheerios, you can have the child either sort the items into the different color groups or work on patterns (e.g. yellow-red-yellow-red…)
