Cool Panda Chinese Class For Kids
Lace your shoes! - Fine Motor Activity for Kids This activity is great for young children to learn how the shoe laces work. It is easy to make, fun for kids and low cost. You can use real shoe too,...
Advice from the OT: Why It's So Hard for Children to Sit Still and What You Can Do About It
Minds in Bloom is so very honored to welcome guest blogger Loren Shlaes, a registered pediatric occupational therapist and regular contributor to the special needs blog at Pediastaff (who were instrumental in making this series possible). This is the first in a series of posts from Loren about how to help students, who may be challenged with attention, sensory, or other issues, be successful in the classroom.
Duck Race Fine Motor Sensory Play - Fantastic Fun & Learning
Practice fine motor skills in this quick prep duck race. It's a great sensory play activity for toddlers and preschoolers.
Pool Noodles & Rubber Bands Fine Motor Activity {Fine Motor Fridays}
Fine motor activity for kids using pool noodles and rubber bands. Would be a great busy bag idea as well!
five activities for crossing the midline (and why it’s important) - teach mama
five activities for crossing the midline (and why it’s important)
Piller Child Develpment- Pediatric Therapy
List of proprioceptive activities for home from Pillar Child Development (though most are not age sensitive)
Tracing Lines Busy Bag for Preschoolers
This free printable tracing lines busy bag for preschoolers is a great introduction to writing. Preschoolers will have fun tracing the lines and practicing their fine motor skills.
Distal Finger Control Exercises - The OT Toolbox
Distal Finger Control is a fine motor skill exercise in dexterity that is needed for manipulating the pencil with the fingers. Without distal finger control, a child uses wrist and forearm motions to move the pencil, form letters, and write with larger pencil strokes. Those bigger pencil lines tend to be less controlled and can result in legibility ... Read more
W-Sitting: What is it and how can you help your child?
A pediatric therapist addresses the developmental concerns related to W-Sitting and why pediatric therapists caution against this position.
rockabyebutterfly.com - rockabyebutterfly Resources and Information.
rockabyebutterfly.com is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, rockabyebutterfly.com has it all. We hope you find what you are searching for!
How the Vestibular System Affects Your Child's Behavior
How the Vestibular System Affects Your Child's Behavior? What is it? Find out in this 5 week series from an Occupational Therapy perspective.
Family, Parenting, Adoption and Special Needs
Wilbarger brushing protocol is a wonderful part of a sensory diet for children with autism, SPD (sensory processing disorder) and other disorders.
Can you balance a butterfly on your nose?
If you have never witnessed the Monarch butterfly migration from Toronto then let me try and explain. Imagine being down at the beach and noticing one lovely orange and black butterfly flitting by. This might