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Simple ideas for gardening with children – this guide gives early childhood educators and parents gardening activity ideas and projects for children and make it fun no matter the spaces you have to work with or if you don’t have a green thumb! Perfect guide for those following the EYLF sustainability outcomes. | The Empowered Educator
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Simple ideas for gardening with children – this guide gives early childhood educators and parents gardening activity ideas and projects for children and make it fun no matter the spaces you have to work with or if you don’t have a green thumb! Perfect guide for those following the EYLF sustainability outcomes. | The Empowered Educator

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Simple ideas for gardening with children – this guide gives early childhood educators and parents gardening activity ideas and projects for children and make it fun no matter the spaces …

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Fine Motor

Looking for Spring Fine Motor Activities to do with the kids this time of year? This is the space to find creative activities and ideas to promote fine motor skills like hand strength, dexterity, open thumb web space, arch development, and the precision grasp needed for functional tasks like pencil grasp, endurance in handwriting, scissor use, clothing fastener use, the ability to open containers, type with finger isolation, and every other fine motor task you can imagine!

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Looking for Spring Fine Motor Activities to do with the kids this time of year? This is the space to find creative activities and ideas to promote fine motor skills …

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Sensory

The Easter Fine Motor Pattern Block Mats packet works on matching colors, 2D shape identification, pre-writing skills and visual discrimination. By grabbing and placing the pattern blocks, students work to build strength in the index finger and thumb. (affiliate)

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The Easter Fine Motor Pattern Block Mats packet works on matching colors, 2D shape identification, pre-writing skills and visual discrimination. By grabbing and placing the pattern blocks, students work to …

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Fine Motor

This comprehensive resource breaks down all of the types of fine motor skills including open thumb web space, pinch, hand strength, opposition, arch development, proximal stability, coordination, and much more. You’ll find easy and precise activities to work on each fine motor skill area. Perfect for home activities to develop hand strength and coordination skills, and ideal function-based strategies for occupational therapy interventions.

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This comprehensive resource breaks down all of the types of fine motor skills including open thumb web space, pinch, hand strength, opposition, arch development, proximal stability, coordination, and much more. …

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Fine Motor

Looking for Spring Fine Motor Activities to do with the kids this time of year? This is the space to find creative activities and ideas to promote fine motor skills like hand strength, dexterity, open thumb web space, arch development, and the precision grasp needed for functional tasks like pencil grasp, endurance in handwriting, scissor use, clothing fastener use, the ability to open containers, type with finger isolation, and every other fine motor task you can imagine!

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Looking for Spring Fine Motor Activities to do with the kids this time of year? This is the space to find creative activities and ideas to promote fine motor skills …

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Fine Motor

Use this fine motor exercise to help kids with a thumb wrap pencil grasp which impacts handwriting and legibility in handwriting sometimes. An open thumb web space is a skill that can help to fix the thumb wrap grasp. Try these fine motor activities to promote an open thumb web space.

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Use this fine motor exercise to help kids with a thumb wrap pencil grasp which impacts handwriting and legibility in handwriting sometimes. An open thumb web space is a skill …

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Fine Motor

Use this play dough activity in occupational therapy for a fine motor exercise to help kids with a thumb wrap pencil grasp which impacts handwriting and legibility in handwriting sometimes. An open thumb web space is a skill that can help to fix the thumb wrap grasp. Try these fine motor activities to promote an open thumb web space.

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Use this play dough activity in occupational therapy for a fine motor exercise to help kids with a thumb wrap pencil grasp which impacts handwriting and legibility in handwriting sometimes. …

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Occupational Therapy

When we write, the pencil is held with the index finger, middle finger, and thumb, and supported by the ring and pinkie finger as the hand moves across a page. A functioning proprioceptive system allows us to move the small muscles of the hand to move the pencil in fluid movements and with “just right” pressure. We are able to mark lines on the paper, erase mistakes, move the paper with our supporting arm, turn pages in a notebook fluidly, and keep the paper in one piece.

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When we write, the pencil is held with the index finger, middle finger, and thumb, and supported by the ring and pinkie finger as the hand moves across a page. …

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Gross Motor Activities

Challenge fine motor and memory skills with this Superhero Match Up freebie from the Superhero packet.  Print and laminate the page. Using thumb, index and middle finger create small balls of clay. Flatten each ball between thumb and index finger. Place clay over each circle. Player one removes two pieces of clay. If it is a …

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Challenge fine motor and memory skills with this Superhero Match Up freebie from the Superhero packet.  Print and laminate the page. Using thumb, index and middle finger create small balls …

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