Home Activities

INTRODUCTION

Here are some fun ideas of ways to keep up with some of the skills we have been working on during our therapy sessions.

Pick a brain break to complete before you start working, to help get your mind and body ready.

ALPHABET PRACTICE

• Make letters out of Play-doh

• Make letters on the sidewalk with chalk

• Draw letters on the sidewalk using a squirt gun

• Finger paint letters

• Use a dry erase board - make a letter then trace to erase

• Spread shaving cream on the bathtub wall - write letters in it

• Use a crayon to print on a paper with sandpaper under it

• Try to use your body to form the shape of each letter

• Print each letter with a highlighter and have your child trace it

FINE MOTOR AND TWO-HANDED SKILLS

• Play with Play-doh - mash it, ball it, roll it out then cut it

• Pull stickers off of a sheet to make a picture

• Help roll out cookie dough

• Chalk outside - draw pictures, shapes, print the alphabet

• Play with a pool ball - squeeze out the water

• Color in a coloring book

• Finger Paint

• Cut - coupons, art projects, paper roads, snips

• Make necklaces - use pasta noodles, cereal, beads

• Make pictures - use pasta noodles, cereal, beads

• Count grapes/cereal/popcorn kernels/small food items - transfer from one bowl into another one at a time

VISUAL-PERCEPTION AND VISUAL-MOTOR SKILLS

• Do mazes

• Do dot-to-dots

• Do hidden pictures

• Do spot the difference pages

• Word Search puzzles

• Copy block designs

• Practice completing a partially drawn picture

• Play memory match games

• Complete a jigsaw puzzle

• Sorting activities

• Games like Perfection

• Construction bricks like Lego, Duplo or others

• Draw a self-portrait (make sure arms and legs come from the body)