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Different sets of Munchy Balls
I posted a few weeks ago about the games that I have made to play with Munchy Balls (tennis ball heads). Most people make their own balls, but many people would rather have them ready to go, so I have...
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Color matching velcro block fine motor toy
I love all of the recycling activities that the Recycling OT does, but I am not as good at saving items to recycle. I used an empty tennis ball can, and put colored duct tape stripes on it in the...
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Raindrops Clothespin Fine Motor Game
The raindrop clothespin game has a full game with game board, and it also has some simple clothespin matching activities. In both parts, you use clothespins to clip raindrops onto an umbrella. Here is...
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Home Made Infinity Loop Toy
An Infinity Loop is a ball run that goes around and around, and you have to keep moving it to keep the ball on the run. Its beginning is its end and it just keeps going. I have quickly and easily made...
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Fine Motor and Letters With Munchy Ball
I wanted to use the Munchy Ball in a new game with letters so that we could practice writing and build fine motor skills and hand strength at the same time. I started with just cutting foam squares...
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New Vinyl Munchy Ball for Fine Motor
I am excited that the vinyl Munchy Balls are in the shop and they have great resistance to work on fine motor skills and hand strengthening. The great thing about them being vinyl balls is that they...
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Messy Play and Fine Motor with Munchy Ball
Now that I have the new vinyl Munchy Balls, I was eager to use them in messy play. I started simple with water beads, which are the perfect size to feed to the Munchy Ball. It was fun to fill the...
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More Kinetic Sand Fun
I posted about Kinetic Sand last year after I saw it at the AOTA conference and fell in love with how fun it was (you can read that post here). I did not have any of my own at that time, and it was...
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Swimming for Letters
I played with foam letters with the kids in school where we rolled the dice and then fed the letters to the Munchy Ball, and now that it is summer, we took the game to the pool so that we could swim...
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Sensory Bird Feeders
A fun way to incorporate different sensory experiences, including food experiences, is to make pine cone bird feeders. I have three different types to make that each utilize a slightly different...
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Fizzing Fine Motor Rocks
I have seen people playing with foaming dough, and decided it would be fun to see what would happen if Munchy Ball was foaming from the mouth. The foaming rock food is made simply by mixing baking soda...
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Fishing for letters
To work on a combination of skills, I made some fish with letters on them, added some pipe cleaner to make it metallic, and made some fishing poles out of pipe cleaner and magnets. Fishing is a great...
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Sweet Potato Play Dough
This Summer, I was running a group with kids that avoid food, so we played with all kinds of foods to get some pleasant associations with the smells and tastes. I wanted to make every day food into a...
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Home Made Infinity Loop Toy
An Infinity Loop is a ball run that goes around and around, and you have to keep moving it to keep the ball on the run. Its beginning is its end and it just keeps going. I have quickly and easily made...
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Fun Fine Motor Spider Webs
I love the look of spider webs, and they are such a beautiful work of art. Here are some spider webs made out of pipe cleaner and popsicle sticks. You place the popsicle sticks (or other pipe cleaners)...
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Build a Catapult
We did a craft this week that was a build your own catapult. We made it from a catapult kit, and it involved placing pegs in holes and putting the pieces together. It would be a great activity for...
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Catapult Birds
Last week we made catapults out of clothespins, so this week we used those catapults to play a game and work on writing. I made a target to shoot pom poms at, and use the pom poms as birds that we...
View ArticleSugar Bugs Clothespin Game
I have been meaning to make a clothespin game with bugs and their legs (the clothespins) for a while, and have just finished it. It combines two of the kids’ favorite things, sugar and bugs. This game...
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This week I wanted to incorporate some targeted fine motor and hand strengthening in our sessions, and then follow up with some writing tasks. I used the foam letter squares that I made for the pool...
View ArticleEaster Egg Writing Lines
Easter is almost here so here is an Easter activity. It includes practice writing lines, coloring, cutting, and writing. You can choose a simple grouping of eggs to practice lines on and then color....
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