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Thursday, September 22, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Fish For Shapes
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Hands-On learning : Car Wash Fine Motor Activity
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Spray Shapes and Patterns
This activity helps develop hand strength, fine motor skills and visual perceptual skills.
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Thursday, June 2, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Easy Homemade Matching Game
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Fine Motor Work Station
This activity from Learning4Kids is so easy to set up and provides great fine motor workout for our kids. You just need a paper, markers and buttons/shells/pom poms,etc. Just draw a pattern and your kiddo has to place the buttons along the path. The link above will take you to the website which featured this post.
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Thursday, April 21, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Smash The Puffy Letters
This activity uses puffy paint made from glue and shaving cream, two easily available ingredients.
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Friday, April 8, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Band-Aid Letter Matching Freebie
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Sight Word Parking Lot
http://b-inspiredmama.com/numbers-game-car-parking/
Feelings Parking Lot
http://therapeuticinterventionsk-12.blogspot.in/2013/04/feelings-parking-lot.html
We can create our own versions with Synonyms, Antonyms, Multiplication tables, etc. Customize this activity to suit your child’s needs.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Eggs-Actly Logic Puzzle Freebie
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Free Snowman Letter Matching Printable
![Snowman Letter Matching Puzzles](https://www.parentingautismindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cover.jpg)
This is a Snow Man Themed 3 piece puzzle to match Upper case letter, Lower case Letter and Objects that begin with the Letter Sound. You can find a free printable for all 26 letters of the alphabet at the link shared above.
Its a good activity that also helps improve visual skills, matching skills, eye hand coordinations and thinking skills.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Hands-On Learning With Ice Cubes
Ice Cubes, one of easily available therapy tools for our kids. Ice cubes and therapy tools? Yes!! There are so many ways we can use ice cubes for therapeutic fun. Take a look :
http://www.learnwithplayathome.com/2014/01/paintsicles-frozen-paint-cubes-for.html
http://pocketofpreschool.blogspot.in/2015/01/exploring-ice-and-giveaway.html
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Thursday, January 14, 2016
Hands-On Learning : Match the Keys Freebie
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Hands-On Learning : Free Road Letters Printable
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Hands-On Learning : Paint the Popcorn
![Milk Paint Popcorn Rainbow](https://www.parentingautismindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Painted-Popcorn-Rainbow-Pin.jpg)
This simple craft activity is very therapeutic and loads of fun. You will need popped up popcorn, chart paper, colours (water colours/food colours in milk, etc ) of your choice, brush and glue. The image shows a rainbow of coloured popcorn painted with food colour mixed in milk.
Take a craft paper and draw a semi circle with glue and stick popcorn on it. Draw as little as two semi circles or go for seven to make a complete rainbow. Then use a brush and colour the popcorn. This works in developing fine motor skills, pincer grasp, eye hand coordination and visual skills.
If you want try something more , start with shapes, like make a square on a chart paper with glue, stick popcorn on it and colour it. You can even try making alphabets, numbers similarly. A very simple and very effective activity for our kids. Don’t you agree?
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Thursday, December 3, 2015
Hands-On Learning : With Push Pins
![Push Pins strengthen tripod fingers for writing -- Repinned by @PediaStaff – Please Visit ht.ly/63sNt for all our pediatric therapy pins:](https://www.parentingautismindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/23f47fc9df8db20cc83f5ae3d7798446.jpg)
Push Pins are great for developing pincer grasp, which is essential for developing good handwriting skills as well as eye-hand coordination. Push pins are easily available and don’t cost a lot. This is the one we use at home :
Ideally, you need a cork board for this activity, but we didn’t have one at home, so we used thermacol sheets we had. You can even use a cardboard as base for this activity. But please always make sure that your kiddo is closely monitored during this activity as the push pins are very sharp! You can draw alphabets on a paper and mount it on a cork board/thermacol sheet/cardboard and the kid has to place the push pins along the lines.
http://testyyettrying.blogspot.in/2012/02/pinning-version-20.html
You can also draw/trace shapes and place push pins along the lines. Even removing the push pins from the board is a good fine motor activity!
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Friday, November 20, 2015
Hands-On Learning : Magic Letters
![alphabet for starters](https://www.parentingautismindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/letter-activities-for-kids.jpg)
I recently read this amazing yet simple activity on No Time For Flash Cards written by Allison. Its very easy to set up and my son had lots of fun. Please follow the link shared above for detailed instructions. While you are there, check out her awesome collection of activities for children. She used Liquid water colours for this activity and since they are unavailable in India, use this instead
If you have an older child, instead of letters, try sight words for this activity!
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
Hands-On Learning : Logic Colours With Sticks
![jeu de logique avec des bâtonnets et des gommettes:](https://www.parentingautismindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/b0538864c488ae1da099bf800da134cf.jpg)
This activity is one of my personal favourites. The link I shared above will take you to a Spanish website which shared this activity. I could’t translate it, but the image was pretty self – explanatory, so tried it out at home and we loved it! You just need plain Popsicle sticks, paper and sketch pens for this activity. We got popsicle sticks from here :
Take a white paper and using sketch pens, draw circles in colours and fill them completely as shown in the image above. We made four /five rows of such coloured circles. Next take plain popsicle sticks and draw these circles patterns matching the ones on the paper. The kid has to match the patterns on the stick with an exact match on the paper. Better start off with two or three circles to match horizontally and you can make it as complex as you want by choosing alphabets/numbers/words/shapes, instead of circles. The beauty of this activity is that you can make it as simple or as complex as needed to match your child.
This activity is very good for your kiddo and develops visual tracking skills, thinking skills and problem solving skills.
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Hands-On Learning : With Ear Buds/Q -tip
![Q Tip Painting ABC Printables](https://www.parentingautismindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Q-Tip-Painting-ABC-Printables-3982_thumb.jpg)
Ear Buds or Q tips are one of the most easily available and inexpensive items, so today let’s explore ways to use the therapeutic benefits of Ear buds for our children. The image above shows a child painting with Ear buds/Q tip, this develops pincer grasp, fine motor skills and eye hand coordination. You will need Ear buds and liquid water colours or water colours in tube, something like this , just dissolve a little water colour in water and you have liquid water colours.
There are great printables available for free online, just follow the links to download them :
http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/2013/05/q-tip-painting-alphabet-printables/
http://3dinosaurs.com/wordpress/index.php/free-q-tip-prewriting-printables/
http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/q-tip-painting-with-templates/
http://www.totschooling.net/2015/01/valentines-q-tip-painting-printables.html
I also found another interesting activity to do with Ear Buds/Q tips, take a look :
Looks interesting, doesn’t it? These are patterns of snowflakes with Q tips/Ear buds, that your child can copy. You can get these pattern card printables for free here :
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Hands-On Learning : Button Snake
![Button Snake Toy - Great for fine motor development:](https://www.parentingautismindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cf6d955cf028cf6ae2ecc60449bcb628.jpg)
Button Snake is an amazing activity to develop fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, buttoning skills, matching skills, etc. You need felt sheets, buttons and ribbon for this activity. For detailed procedure, please follow the link shared above. You can buy Felt sheets here :
You can even make a Shape and Colour Button Snake as shown below :
http://www.playdoughtoplato.com/shape-button-snake/#_a5y_p=3360436
The felt Button Chain is also an interesting activity to try. Take a look :
http://www.tipsfromatypicalmomblog.com/2013/07/diy-felt-button-chain-learning-fine.html
If you are looking for more ways to play with Button Snake, then the following article will be of immense help :
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Hands-On Learning : Free Prewriting Practice Pattern Worksheets
![Free Prewriting Practice Patterns - Several pages of different patterns to practice with prewriting - 3Dinosaurs.com](https://www.parentingautismindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/prewritingpracticepatterns-blog.jpg)
Cassie from 3dinosaurs.com has shared this free printable patterns for prewriting practice. There are 29 pages of different patterns as you can see in the image above. If your child is having problems with handwriting, do try these worksheets. They are good for older kids too as they are patterns with varying levels of difficulty. As Cassie suggested, you can give the child various options like crayons, triangular crayons, markers, water colours, etc. to practice these prewriting worksheets.
If you are looking for more simpler prewriting worksheets for your kiddo, try these:
http://3dinosaurs.com/wordpress/index.php/free-prewriting-practice-printables/
At the bottom of the post on the above link you will find many prewriting pritables in various themes. I hope you lots of fun trying out these printables with your child. Thanks Cassie!
http://3dinosaurs.com/wordpress/index.php/free-beach-themed-prewriting/
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