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Festive Fun: Christmas and Winter Occupational Therapy Worksheets & Activities

Do you need ways to keep your students engaged and working on academic skills this holiday season? Check out my activities and worksheets for December. Plus a Christmas freebie. These resources include differentiated, worksheets & activities which incorporate math, literacy, writing, handwriting, social-emotional learning, fine motor, and visual perceptual skills. These activities are great for writing centers, math stations, early finishers, occupational therapy sessions, emergency sub plans, and more.

Enhancing Classroom Skills with Fun Visual Perception Drawing Activities

Are your students struggling in the classroom? Are they having difficulty drawing recognizable pictures in their writing journals? Difficulty processing visual information and poor visual-motor coordination skills can lead to problems with reading, spelling, handwriting, drawing, math, and comprehension. Use fun visual perception drawing activities to help your students improve their drawing and planning skills.

Festive Fall Fun: Halloween Occupational Therapy Crafts and Activities

Need some quick activities for your Halloween centers or occupational therapy planning? Celebrate during the full month of October.

Occupational Therapy Activities: Enhancing Fine Motor & Visual Perception Skills with Buttons

Are you looking for inexpensive ideas for visual discrimination and fine motor practice? Use buttons! Sort them by color, by shape, or another attribute. Great activity for a classroom fine motor station, visual perceptual center or as an occupational therapy session warm-up.

Pirate Activities for Kids Occupational Therapy Activities: Pirate-themed Classroom Fun Pirate Activities for Kids

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Boosting Classroom Success: Incorporating Upper Body Strengthening and Gross Motor Movement

As you start back to school think about ways you can incorporate upper body strengthening and gross motor movement into your student’s day. Frequent motor breaks will help improve on-task behavior and increased upper body strength can help improve keyboarding speeds and handwriting & letter legibility. Here are a few ways you can help your students increase upper extremity strength and stability needed for fine motor tasks.

Sweet Success: Ice Cream-Themed Occupational Therapy End of Year Summer or Back to School Activities

Are you busy, have too many students, and lack planning time? If any of those ring true, I can help. I love planning and send weekly emails to my occupational therapy colleagues with ideas for meeting the fine motor, visual perceptual, and social-emotional goals of our OT students. Here are a few fun Summer school ideas with an ice cream theme.

Fostering Emotional Wellness: Strategies for Social-Emotional Learning and Self-Regulation in the Classroom

No matter what part of the year you are in, Summer school, Back to School, or mid-year, most of us are looking for ways to enhance the social-emotional growth of our students. With all the challenges our students face we need ways to teach them about their emotions, that all emotions are ok and we sometimes need to find ways to manage them. Building their understanding of their triggers, and creating a personal inventory of coping skills can be beneficial throughout their life.

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