Creative Activities for Kids

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Free Printable Halloween Agamograph Cat, Dog, Pumpkin, Monster, Zombie Coloring Sheet- Easy Kids STEAM, STEM activity

Tissue paper art

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4 Seasons Playdough Mat Bundle (printables) – Living Well Mom Playdoh Mats, Diy For Kids, Crafts For Kids, Gluten Free Playdough, Activity Mat, April Preschool, Finger Painting, Hands On Activities, Imaginative Play
4 Seasons Playdough Mat Bundle (printables)
4 Seasons Playdough Mat Bundle (printables) – Living Well Mom
30 Easter Crafts for Kids Parenting Blogs, Motherhood Parenting, Quotes About Motherhood, Happy Mom, Happy Kids, Easter Crafts For Kids, Easter Ideas, Creative Activities
Easter Crafts for Kids
30 Easter Crafts for Kids
Get your kids off the screens and playing outside!! 5 Steps to Creating an Outdoor Exploration Station Your Kids Will Love! - Modern Parents Messy Kids #outsideplay #toddlerplay #preschoolplay #creativeplay #handsonplay #screenfree #playideas Backyard Play Spaces, Outdoor Play Spaces, Backyard For Kids, Gardening For Kids, Outdoor Kids, Diy Backyard, Diy Outdoor, Construction Palette, Messy Kids
5 Steps to Creating an Outdoor Exploration Station Your Kids Will Love! - Modern Parents Messy Kids
Get your kids off the screens and playing outside!! 5 Steps to Creating an Outdoor Exploration Station Your Kids Will Love! - Modern Parents Messy Kids #outsideplay #toddlerplay #preschoolplay #creativeplay #handsonplay #screenfree #playideas
Stephanie I Rooted Reservations
Stephanie I Rooted Reservations
This super easy busy bag or quick printable is perfect for some counting practice! Print and cut the hearts out. Mix them up on a surface (table or floor) and encourage them to match up Math Number Activities, Autism Activities, Math For Kids, Math Valentines, Valentines Day Activities, Valentine Day Crafts, Holiday Activities
Heart Counting Cards
This super easy busy bag or quick printable is perfect for some counting practice! Print and cut the hearts out. Mix them up on a surface (table or floor) and encourage them to match up
These pipe cleaner and bead snowflakes are one of our favorite snowflake crafts that develop fine motor skills! Snowflake Party, Snowflake Craft, Beaded Snowflakes, After Christmas, Christmas Ideas, Silver Tinsel, Kids Blogger, Popsicle Stick Crafts
Pipe Cleaner and Bead Snowflakes - The OT Toolbox
These pipe cleaner and bead snowflakes are one of our favorite snowflake crafts that develop fine motor skills!
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
Heart Penguin with Free Template Crafts For Kids To Make, Craft Activities For Kids, Toddler Activities, Kids Crafts, Home Crafts, Orange Paper, Pink Paper
Valentine Penguin Craft
Heart Penguin with Free Template
Valentine Monster with Free Template Preschool Ideas, Valentines, School Vacation, Boredom Busters, Comfort And Joy, Cute Monsters, All Kids
Valentine Monster Craft
Valentine Monster with Free Template
Hot Chocolate Math Science Projects, Educational Activities, Preschool Counting
Hot Chocolate Math
Hot Chocolate Math
Valentine Rocket with Free Template Yellow Paper
Valentine Rocket
Valentine Rocket with Free Template
24 Adorable Pine Cone Crafts for Kids to Make Kids And Parenting
30 Pinecone Crafts for Kids
24 Adorable Pine Cone Crafts for Kids to Make
Create a sensory garden with kids to incorporate sensory input in outdoor play. You know we LOVE sensory play, right? Gardening is the ultimate sensory activity when it comes to kids. There are so many of the senses addressed when a child is outside in the dirt. There is the calming and relaxing environment of quiet outdoors, soft dirt, cool colors, and the warm sun. Digging and turning dirt is a wonderful proprioception activity for kids. Kids Sensory Activities, Sensory Play, Family Activities, Pulling Weeds, Garden Rake, Clever Kids, Sensory Garden
Sensory Gardening with Kids - The OT Toolbox
Create a sensory garden with kids to incorporate sensory input in outdoor play. You know we LOVE sensory play, right? Gardening is the ultimate sensory activity when it comes to kids. There are so many of the senses addressed when a child is outside in the dirt. There is the calming and relaxing environment of quiet outdoors, soft dirt, cool colors, and the warm sun. Digging and turning dirt is a wonderful proprioception activity for kids.
Playing with stickers can help kids with so many skill areas! They can even be an Occupational Therapist’s secret weapon. Pulling a fresh sheet of stickers from the OT’s treatment bag can bring on big smiles from kids of all ages. And the best news is, that the children don’t even realize they are working on important developmental areas! Sensory Integration Therapy, Occupational Therapy Activities, Occupational Therapist, Learning Activities, Spelling Word Practice, Intervention Strategy, Pediatric Ot, Summer Camps
Benefits of Playing with Stickers
Playing with stickers can help kids with so many skill areas! They can even be an Occupational Therapist’s secret weapon. Pulling a fresh sheet of stickers from the OT’s treatment bag can bring on big smiles from kids of all ages. And the best news is, that the children don’t even realize they are working on important developmental areas!
Heart Elephant with Free Template Valentine Crafts For Kids
Heart Elephant
Heart Elephant with Free Template
Cute Lantern Crafts for Kids Lantern Crafts For Kids, Kids Lantern, Light Crafts, Arts And Crafts For Kids, Preschool Crafts, Teach Preschool, Kindergarten Crafts
Cute Lantern Crafts for Kids
Cute Lantern Crafts for Kids
Paper Plate Love Birds with Free Template Googly Eye Crafts, Glue Crafts, Paper Magic
Paper Plate Love Birds
Paper Plate Love Birds with Free Template
These flower snacks are fun and super easy to create with kids and build fine motor skills in the kitchen. Whether kids help in the kitchen for fun or for the benefits of building executive functioning skills or fine motor development, there are many reasons to make these flower healthy treats! Add these cooking with kids activities to your Spring occupational therapy toolbox. Preschool Cooking Activities, Preschool Songs, Stem Activities, Dinners For Kids, Healthy Snacks For Kids, Kids Snacks, Healthy Treats, Kids Meals
Flower Snacks - The OT Toolbox
These flower snacks are fun and super easy to create with kids and build fine motor skills in the kitchen. Whether kids help in the kitchen for fun or for the benefits of building executive functioning skills or fine motor development, there are many reasons to make these flower healthy treats! Add these cooking with kids activities to your Spring occupational therapy toolbox.
Build working memory skills with these ice cream theme activities. Includes a free Google slide deck where kids can work on sequencing, visual attention, visual memory, direction following, and of course, working memory skills! Memory Activities, Developmental Milestones Chart, Free Teacher Resources, Writing Prompts For Kids, Teacher Support
Ice Cream Theme Working Memory Activities
Build working memory skills with these ice cream theme activities. Includes a free Google slide deck where kids can work on sequencing, visual attention, visual memory, direction following, and of course, working memory skills!
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
These frog writing prompts are so much fun! Includes both frog word writing prompts and also sentences as an open-ended writing prompt to foster creative writing. The frog words include things like froglet, pond, lily pad, and words that are easily read and recognized by younger children. Pair this activity with frog lifecycle activities for handwriting practice of letter formation, letter size, legibility, and even cursive handwriting for the older elementary ages. Second Grade Writing Prompts, Holiday Writing Prompts, Middle School Writing Prompts, Fourth Grade Writing, Ela Writing, Creative Writing Prompts, Opinion Writing, Teaching Literacy, Teaching Activities
Frog Writing Prompts
These frog writing prompts are so much fun! Includes both frog word writing prompts and also sentences as an open-ended writing prompt to foster creative writing. The frog words include things like froglet, pond, lily pad, and words that are easily read and recognized by younger children. Pair this activity with frog lifecycle activities for handwriting practice of letter formation, letter size, legibility, and even cursive handwriting for the older elementary ages.
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
This color sorting activity is a powerful fine motor activity and a super easy way to learn and play for toddlers and preschoolers. We’ve done plenty of activities to work on fine motor skills in kids. This straw activity is the type that is a huge hit in our house…it’s cheap, easy, and fun! (a bonus for kids and mom!) Straw Activities, Color Sorting Activities, Sorting Colors, Preschool Learning Activities, Motor Activities, Teaching Ideas, Toddler Play, Toddler Preschool
Color Sorting with Straws
This color sorting activity is a powerful fine motor activity and a super easy way to learn and play for toddlers and preschoolers. We’ve done plenty of activities to work on fine motor skills in kids. This straw activity is the type that is a huge hit in our house…it’s cheap, easy, and fun! (a bonus for kids and mom!)
Use these indoor recess activities to get kids moving, and getting the brain breaks they need so they can learn. Recess is about play and these play ideas are fun and practical for indoors. Lots of screen free recess ideas, too! Indoor Recess Activities, Rainy Day Activities For Kids, Afterschool Activities, Indoor Play, Indoor Games, Challenges Activities, Bean Bag Games
Indoor Recess Ideas
Use these indoor recess activities to get kids moving, and getting the brain breaks they need so they can learn. Recess is about play and these play ideas are fun and practical for indoors. Lots of screen free recess ideas, too!
16 Arctic Animal Crafts for Kids Parenting Board, Positive Parenting, New Parent Advice, Mom Advice, Animal Crafts For Kids
Arctic Animal Crafts
16 Arctic Animal Crafts for Kids
When it comes to playing outside, my kids seem to really love the basics. Some water, dirt, and flowers are the ingredients to messy sensory play that is just…fun! Here is one simple activity idea that uses what you’ve got in your yard. We used some dandelion flowers for a sensory activity that the kids couldn’t keep their hands out of. This tactile sensory idea is one that may challenge the sensory system, but one that is awesome for it’s fine motor benefits too. Outdoor Fun, Sensory System, Flower Bath, Preschool Lesson Plans, Dandelion Flower, Water Beads
Outdoor Dandelion Messy Water Play - The OT Toolbox
When it comes to playing outside, my kids seem to really love the basics. Some water, dirt, and flowers are the ingredients to messy sensory play that is just…fun! Here is one simple activity idea that uses what you’ve got in your yard. We used some dandelion flowers for a sensory activity that the kids couldn’t keep their hands out of. This tactile sensory idea is one that may challenge the sensory system, but one that is awesome for it’s fine motor benefits too.
Fingerprint Snowy Tree Snowmen Activities, Infant Activities, Paper Crafts Diy Kids, Winter Math Centers
Snowy Tree
Fingerprint Snowy Tree
This free slide deck for therapy is an emotions game with a frog theme. A spot it game that builds visual perceptual skills, this virtual game is fun for a frogs and toads theme. Use it to work on teaching social emotional skills to kids. They will LOVE the frog spot it game that helps with emotional learning. Emotions Game, Teaching Emotions, Social Emotional Learning, Frog Games, Visual Perception Activities, Frog Theme, It Game
Frog Spot It Game
This free slide deck for therapy is an emotions game with a frog theme. A spot it game that builds visual perceptual skills, this virtual game is fun for a frogs and toads theme. Use it to work on teaching social emotional skills to kids. They will LOVE the frog spot it game that helps with emotional learning.
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
Snowman Color Matching
Snowman Color Matching
Snowman Color Matching
Use these indoor recess activities to get kids moving, and getting the brain breaks they need so they can learn. Recess is about play and these play ideas are fun and practical for indoors. Lots of screen free recess ideas, too! School Based Therapy, Freeze Dance, Motor Planning, Screen Free
Indoor Recess Ideas
Use these indoor recess activities to get kids moving, and getting the brain breaks they need so they can learn. Recess is about play and these play ideas are fun and practical for indoors. Lots of screen free recess ideas, too!
This spacing tool for spacing between words in writing is so cute, and out of this world! Make a space alien craft that doubles as a spacing manipulative kids can use for better handwriting skills. Beginning Writing, Pre Writing, Writing Tools, Writing Skills, Reading Writing, Kids Writing, Writing Workshop, Handwriting Activities, Handwriting Practice
Spacing Tool for Handwriting
This spacing tool for spacing between words in writing is so cute, and out of this world! Make a space alien craft that doubles as a spacing manipulative kids can use for better handwriting skills.
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities
The OT Toolbox- Pediatric Occupational Therapy Activities