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Festive Fall Fun: Halloween Occupational Therapy Crafts and Activities

Halloween activities for writing fine motor math and visual perceptual skills

Need some quick activities for your Halloween centers or occupational therapy planning?  I love to celebrate during the full month of October. Here are a few of my favorites Halloween activities to do with my students.

For sensory exploration, I love the good old fashion pumpkin carving.

For fine motor, gross motor, and visual perception here are a few low-cost ideas.

  1. Sort colored beads into matching molds from the Dollar Store.

2. Sort mini Halloween-themed erasers into a muffin tin.

3. Sort Halloween-themed stickers onto paper.

4. Witch hat ring toss from Oriental Trading.

5. Make Pumpkin Jack-o-lantern Halloween Sticker Sheets.

6. Roll and Draw a Witch or Jack-o-Lantern. Check out these freebies in my store.

7. Buy orange, black and purple pom-poms, and laminate matching cardstock. Place a strip of velcro on the front of each piece of paper and hang them on the wall. I dump the pom poms onto the floor and have students pick them up and attach them to the velcro correct color paper. Great for vestibular input as well as fine motor and visual perception.

Here are a few Halloween craft ideas.

I have many digital and print options for Halloween-themed occupational therapy activities in my TpT store. If you are looking for options for your classroom, OT, or Speech sessions check them out.

I hope you were able to find something fun to meet the needs of your students. Click here to follow my TpT Store. You will receive emails from TpT when I post new resources. All new resources are 50% off for the first 48 hours. Thank you for reading. Cindy@CreativeCOTA LLC

About the Author

I am a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) and have been working in a public school system for more than 25 years. My resources can be found on TPTBOOM LearningMade by TeachersClassful, and Your Therapy Source. I appreciate your interest wherever you wish to shop.

My mission is to help you find creative ideas to incorporate fine motor, visual perceptiongross motor, and social-emotional learning into your lessons.

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