Tag: Pencil

Trolls Pencil Challenges download includes a HUGE collection of visual motor practice worksheets. Practice pencil control for vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved lines. Most of the 40+ visual motor worksheets are available in easy or more difficult versions – great for differentiated instruction in group settings. The worksheets are in color. The worksheets progress in difficulty. Also included are 12 mazes that progress in difficulty and 5 Follow the Dot activities. (affiliate)
Sensory

Trolls Pencil Challenges download includes a HUGE collection of visual motor practice worksheets. Practice pencil control for vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved lines. Most of the 40+ visual motor worksheets are available in easy or more difficult versions – great for differentiated instruction in group settings. The worksheets are in color. The worksheets progress in difficulty. Also included are 12 mazes that progress in difficulty and 5 Follow the Dot activities. (affiliate)

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Trolls Pencil Challenges download includes a HUGE collection of visual motor practice worksheets. Practice pencil control for vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved lines. Most of the 40+ visual motor worksheets …

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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

Trolls Pencil Challenges download includes a HUGE collection of visual motor practice worksheets. Practice pencil control for vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved lines. Most of the 40+ visual motor worksheets are available in easy or more difficult versions – great for differentiated instruction in group settings. The worksheets are in color. The worksheets progress in difficulty. Also included are 12 mazes that progress in difficulty and 5 Follow the Dot activities. (affiliate)

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Trolls Pencil Challenges download includes a HUGE collection of visual motor practice worksheets. Practice pencil control for vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved lines. Most of the 40+ visual motor worksheets …

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Fine Motor

Types of fine motor skills Fine motor skills are made up of various motor components. These sub-areas impact mobility, tool use, manipulation of objects, strength, and endurance. These examples of fine motor skills are needed for everyday tasks like cutting with scissors, tying shoes, fastening buttons and zippers, coloring, and holding a pencil. Let’s cover all of these fine motor areas in more detail:

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Types of fine motor skills Fine motor skills are made up of various motor components. These sub-areas impact mobility, tool use, manipulation of objects, strength, and endurance. These examples of …

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Gross Motor Activities

These pediatric occupational therapy activities use a dollar pencil box and common materials to work on fine mototr skills, visual motor skills, coordination, crossing midline, bilateral coordination, and dexterity with kids.

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These pediatric occupational therapy activities use a dollar pencil box and common materials to work on fine mototr skills, visual motor skills, coordination, crossing midline, bilateral coordination, and dexterity with …

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Fine Motor

These pencil grasp activities are fun ways to improve pencil grasp with fine motor play. By using play activities to help kids build a better pencil grasp, kids develop a grasp that is strong and dexterous in ways that carryover to holding a pencil. This is something that therapists want parents to know about pencil grasp development…that a functional pencil grasp might not look like a traditional tripod grasp…and that there are fun ways to work on grasp development!

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These pencil grasp activities are fun ways to improve pencil grasp with fine motor play. By using play activities to help kids build a better pencil grasp, kids develop a …

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Occupational Therapy

These pencil grasp activities are fun ways to improve pencil grasp with fine motor play. By using play activities to help kids build a better pencil grasp, kids develop a grasp that is strong and dexterous in ways that carryover to holding a pencil. This is something that therapists want parents to know about pencil grasp development…that a functional pencil grasp might not look like a traditional tripod grasp…and that there are fun ways to work on grasp development!

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These pencil grasp activities are fun ways to improve pencil grasp with fine motor play. By using play activities to help kids build a better pencil grasp, kids develop a …

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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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