A friend of mine taught me this indoor active game you can play instantly (and anywhere) with your kids. With the weather dipping below freezing we are spending time using our list of indoor activities for inspiration, and this is a fun new inside game to add. It’s called “Land, Sea and Air”. What you need: Kids…
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Fine Motor Activity: LEGO Head Rescue
I must admit, this LEGO head fine motor activity that my son has been doing every day with therapy putty for the last few weeks has me laughing every time. There’s just something so funny about LEGO heads to me! Is that weird? I have written before about my youngest son’s struggle with his fine…
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34 Play Dough Activities for Fine Motor
Play dough is great for fine motor work! Originally I had not intended to write a post about play dough activities but as today is National Play Dough day (Seriously. For real!), and I had these photos from a recent play dough session with with my 5 year old, it seemed like a fun idea. Perhaps this list…
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Gross Motor Activity: Scooter Slalom
This gross motor activity was a spontaneous creation one morning this summer when I took the boys out to the park extra early because they were driving me extra crazy. We like to call it “Scooter Slalom”, even though I suppose technically it’s not a slalom course since there are no flagged gates involved. But nevermind…
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Motor Skills Activity: Giant Dot-to-Dot
Large + Small Motor Skills Activity: Giant Dot-to-Dot! A fun fine and gross motor skills activity is a giant dot-to-dot. You may remember New Kid working on his toddler dot-to-dot a few years back, and now he likes to get down with his marker on the floor. I love the way a giant floor connect-the-dots…
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Preschool Fine Motor Development Activity: Journal “Writing”
We are working on developing fine motor skills a lot around here lately. Four year-old New Kid was recently diagnosed with some fine motor delays. Even though he now receives occupational therapy services at school we are supplementing with a range of fine motor skill activities at home to strengthen those important finger muscles! Fine…
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Fine Motor Skills Practice With Acorns
On our way home from school yesterday Kiddo and New Kid spotted a treasure trove of nature’s finest manipulative: acorns. Perfect for fine motor skills practice! We brought them home and of course the first thing we had to do was wash them. They were collected from an urban sidewalk afterall and we have all…
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10 Ways To Play With Pom Poms
One of my favorite distraction tools for New Kid is our big bag of pom poms. They are great for fine motor manipulation, art and craft play, pretend play as well as a tossing around the apartment without worrying about breaking anything! (Note: this post contains affiliate links.) We have gigantic one pound bag of…
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