Karen Dobyns
I am an occupational therapist working in an elementary school district in California. LOVE IT!! :)
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Drop vinegar tinted with food coloring onto a pan filled with baking soda. Sheer minutes of colorful fizzy fun! Looks so fun!
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all kids LOVE the magnet stick (adults too, just can't keep our hands from touching it)
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Cute way to recycle loose puzzle pieces
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button stamps! A wonderful DIY way to create stationary, and do some fast branding on packaging and letter head
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DIY Magnet Wand to encourage fine motor and coordination skills
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Tracing wheel to make raised line paper. Smart! - Re-pinned by @PediaStaff – Please Visit ht.ly/63sNt for all our pediatric therapy pins
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this would be good if you made the marshmellows into angry birds...
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Cloud Dough (the stuff at hands on museums) 8 cups flour & 1 cup baby oil. It feels like flour as you run your fingers through it, but it's moldable. A wonderful sensory activity for children.
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Feed the frog- Parmesan cheese container, pom poms and googly eyes. Cute idea!
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balance marbles on top of washers - what a great freakin idea!!
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berry picking tree with a paper roll, pipe cleaner, and beads.
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different - nice for kids to make and play with
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cant remember if I posted but may do this for mothers day :)
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Tower of bunnies, easter game, was found at CVS
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Monster cake! Tongs and lots of weird little figurines all jumbled...
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fine motor OT adobe hut gingerbread houses...flat roofs for ease.
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feed the tennis ball head. best part is making it vomit after.
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roll dice....use push pins for game pieces. kids LOVE using push pins.
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I love sloths, especially those that enjoy tasty French fries.
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good sensory, fine motor, & letter recognition
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Pom poms and plastic eggs. Great for matching colors and fine motor.
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Picking crows out of corn. Great fine motor.
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Ribbon & paper clip bookmarks. Good activity for fine motor skills and they would be extra cute w colored paper clips.
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Have the students pick a number. Count that number of sticks. Make a design and recreate it with the same color markers on paper. Love all of the components! Great for creative fine motor practice
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Clever fine motor skill, you can make w your children. A straw & box lid marble maze. #ece
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"Bomb Squad" game - the goal was to pick out the yellow, green and blue bombs ( aka pompoms) from the container to keep the city safe! What this teaches is color recognition, counting and using the pinchers is great for fine motor.
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Mini cairns at the beach...fine motor skill development and photo opp!
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packing tape and bits of tissue paper. Great fine motor activity.
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letters with stones, fine motor, creative learning.
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Counting game: students put the correct number of objects to correspond with each number. (great fine motor builder!)
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Fine motor skills. The twig vase. (1) place two rubber bands around a glass jar; (2) get child to insert twigs under the bands; (3) cover the ugly bands with some ribbon etd; Done!
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I found these linking pieces at JoAnn Fabrics. The kids love to hook them together at the fine motor station and make necklaces and bracelets.
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