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Pre-K & Handwriting Interactive Teaching Tools (for 90 days at no cost)

Below are some sample 3-lined adaptive paper for your child to practice their fine motor skills.

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• Write letters in shaving cream, or use play-doh or sand

• Put paper on top of sand paper and write letters on the paper

• When counting with objects, pick up the object with tweezers or BBQ tongs.

• Do a play based/heavy work activity right before seated work

• Listen to instrumental music while working (Calm App has focus music or search kidz jamz on YouTube)

• Wear noise canceling headphones

• Do work outside

• Use clear check lists or visual schedule

• Allow your child to sit on the floor, up against the wall, laying on the ground propped up on elbows, standing at counter etc.

• For children who struggle with maintaining a strong upright posture provide a chair and table that allows them to place their feet directly on the ground.

• Parent to child tickle/wrestling match

• Sandwich between sofa pillows

• Build a fort or obstacle course

• Dig in the dirt

• Plant flowers

• Crab walk and kick a ball back and forth to each other

• Blow through straws to create bubbles

• Listen to music

• Color with chalk outside

• Encourage your child to open containers, measure, plan meals, set the table etc.

• Write out items needed for dinner

• Verbally call out items for child to retrieve from cupboard/fridge

• Meal preparation challenges many skills including fine motor, planning and executing movements, executive functioning and social participation.

• Use transition to incorporate gross motor/heavy work movement. Heavy work during transitions can look like doing a crab walk or wheel barrow walk from living room to bathroom to brush teeth. Instead of walking do something else, like a crab walk, wheelbarrow walk, combat crawl, carry something heavy, walk backwards, do frog jumps, etc.

• Use spray bottle and wipe down surfaces and windows (use of spray bottle strengthens the hands and supports scissor skills, increases strength and range of motion)

• Sweep, vacuum and/or mop (good heavy work activity)

• Laundry. Lifting, and carrying is heavy work. Have the child sort items to work on executive functioning skills and fold to work on fine motor skills.

• Yard work (excellent heavy work activity)

• When recycling boxes such as cracker boxes, have the child cut the boxes up with scissors to work on scissor skills