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Foam Fortress Pull-Apart

OTPlan — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:10:34 +0000

This activity is fantastic for developing strong hand and arm muscles. Pushing the craft sticks through the foam and later pulling the pieces apart provides great proprioceptive input, also known as 'heavy work.' Heavy work is calming and helps your child regulate their body and focus. Since they must use both hands working together, it improves bilateral coordination. It also requires motor planning to figure out how to best pull the pieces apart without them tearing.

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Farmer’s Market

Danielle Noriega — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:33:02 +0000

This activity provides opportunities for sensory engagement (i.e. through vision, touch, smells, sounds, and eventually taste) in order to promote interaction with various food items during mealtime.

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Puppy Tug Toys

Danielle Noriega — Sun, 24 May 2020 14:11:02 +0000

This activity promotes fine motor skills, ideation, and motor planning while braiding a puppy tug toy.

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Guess the Toy

Danielle Noriega — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:06:49 +0000

This activity promotes stereognosis (identifying an object through touch instead of vision), visual perception, and tactile input. This activity bridges the connection in our brains between what we see and what we physically feel. We use these skills for tasks, such as efficiently locating items in our backpacks without looking.

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Newspaper Dance

OTPlan — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:01:07 +0000

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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