Newspaper Play!

Newspapers get tossed in the garbage daily, here's some GREAT ideas for play:

Open up newspaper into squares.  Scatter squares all over the room.  Have child lead from square to square.

Rip newspaper into basic shapes.

Cut out pictures or coupons from the newspaper.

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Traffic Light Fun!

Happy Summer! My son has been enjoying practicing "red" and "green" to learn "stop" and "go" Check out my books for fun activities for your child, too!

Here's an fun sensory rich recipe too!

Traffic Light

Materials:

¼ graham cracker

chocolate frosting

green, yellow & red M&M

Activity:

Get graham cracker

Spread chocolate frosting

Put on red M&M on top

Put on yellow M&M below red

Put on green M&M below yellow

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Trace Your Feet!

Foot Prints

Materials:

Drawing paper

Crayon, colored pencils, markers

Glitter Glue

Activity:

Stabilize white paper on flat surface.

Trace feet on white paper using crayons

Add glitter glue for “painted toes”

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This is just one example of the great ideas from one of my books!!

Paint the Driveway - Pre-Writing Fun!

Get some buckets of water and paint brushes!

Use the paintbrushes (focusing on an appropriate grasping pattern and control) to paint the side walk!!


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SUPER Fun fine motor activities created by an OT!!!

Fine Motor Practice for Prewriting

Prewriting...  So IMPORTANT

Prewriting is the starter skills to writing letters.  When I work with my students, I remind families WHY I work so hard on fine motor practice and prewriting tasks. Prewriting strokes arrive in the following order... just like baby teeth!!

Vertical line (top to bottom)
Horizontal line (left to right)
Circle
Cross (top to bottom, left to right)
X (left to right, right to left - start at the top)

To incorporate fine motor practice, consider checking out the following book:

Fine Motor Items for Play (OT)
Fine Motor Items for Daily Practice (teacher)
Fine Motor Daily Practice (parent)

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FREE FINE MOTOR RESOURCES

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Free FINE MOTOR RESOURCES!

Answer some of your fine motor questions with these free resources from Purple Toes Books!!!

Also, check out the GREAT resource books available for you and your child!

ENJOY!

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The Magical Start Write!

Friends!

Allow me to introduce you to my FAVORITE pencil gripper for young emerging writers than need a little prompting to keep a developing tripod grasp (static).  I tend to provide it to kindergarteners within the first month of school as a choice to help facilitate an appropriate grasping pattern if needed.

Check out some awesome fine motor information!
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