Hands-On Learning : Fish For Shapes

http://www.littlefamilyfun.com/2011/09/fish-for-shapes.html

This homemade fishing game is a great way to develop many skills in your kiddo like, eye hand coordination, fine motor skills, thinking skills, etc. For detailed instructions for preparing this, please visit the website Little family fun ( link shared above).

You can try many variations other than shapes like words, numbers and anything you want to work on. If you want to add balance angle to this activity, encourage your child to pick up these fish with a magnet while bouncing on a therapy ball/gym ball.

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Hands-On learning : Car Wash Fine Motor Activity

http://theinspiredtreehouse.com/fine-motor-activities-car-wash/#_a5y_p=1662580

This fun and immensely therapeutic activity can be found on the Inspired Tree House Website. You will need toy car(s), shaving cream, spray bottle and sponge. Follow the link above for detailed instructions.

Your kiddo has to squirt the shaving cream onto the car and rinse it off by spraying water from a bottle. The last step is drying with a sponge. Each step works on strengthening hand muscles. There are also suggestions on how to make this activity easy or difficult for you child as needed.

My son loves this activity!

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Hands-On Learning : Spray Shapes and Patterns

http://yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2012/05/09/spray-shapes-and-patterns/

I really love this activity from Your Therapy Source blog. The link shared above will take to the post which originally featured on Your Therapy Source and has detailed instructions. You will need foam shapes or foam sheets for this activity.

This activity helps develop hand strength, fine motor skills and visual perceptual skills.

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Hands-On Learning : Easy Homemade Matching Game

http://happyhooligans.ca/diy-matching-game/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter/

This fun and easy to make matching game is great for developing fine motor, visual, matching and thinking skills in our kids. The link above will take you the Happy Hooligans site which has detailed information on how to set up this activity.

Just trace the objects from everyday life and then ask the kid to match the objects to the outlines.

A simple activity to work together with your kiddo!

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Hands-On Learning : Fine Motor Work Station

http://www.learning4kids.net/2016/03/27/fine-motor-work-station-or-centre-activity/

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.

If you want to add a colour component, use a white paper and markers of various colours to draw for example, circles of various colours and sizes and your kiddo has to place the similar coloured buttons along the outlines of the circle. You cal also similarly try out this activity with size component (small/medium/big buttons).

This activity is good for developing fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, colour and size concept, etc.

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Hands-On Learning : Smash The Puffy Letters

http://www.giftofcuriosity.com/smash-the-puffy-letters-101-ways-to-teach-the-alphabet/

This wonderful activity which first featured on Katie’s Gift of Curiosity website is very good for our kids. Follow the link shared above to visit the website.

This activity uses puffy paint made from glue and shaving cream, two easily available ingredients.

If your kiddo is a sensory seeker and likes to smash, hit things, he/she will love this activity.

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Hands-On Learning : Band-Aid Letter Matching Freebie

http://www.totschooling.net/2014/08/band-aid-letters-other-learning-games.html

This really cute hands-on learning activity is available as a free download on Totschooling Website ( link shared above). The free download has 10 pages.

The bear has boo-boo’s of alphabets and your kiddo has to put matching alphabet band aid on them. Loved the idea and its good for developing visual skills and fine motor skills. There are both uppercase letters and lower case letters available in this download with corresponding band aid printable, which have to be printed, laminated and then use velcro. Better still, use real band aids!

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Hands-On Learning : Sight Word Parking Lot

http://www.jugglingwithkids.com/2011/10/sight-word-parking-lot.html?showComment=1319571243034#c5501857452008954589

Does your child love cars? This activity will be a great hit for your kiddo then. Follow the link above for detailed instructions on this activity. Its very simple and very interesting as your child has to listen to the sight word you say and park the car in the corresponding parking lot.

Take a look at other variations of this game.

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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Hands-On Learning : Eggs-Actly Logic Puzzle Freebie

This is a really good freebie that has 9 cards with four Easter eggs each – in various colours and designs. You can download the freebie HERE. Download the pdf and print it out. The kiddo has to match the two cards that are exactly the same. Helps develop visual discrimination and visual spatial skills.

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Hands-On Learning : Free Snowman Letter Matching Printable

                           http://www.totschooling.net/2014/11/snowman-letter-matching-puzzles.html

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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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.stirthewonder.com/alphabet-ice-cube-sensory-play/

http://pagingfunmums.com/2014/07/11/ice-cube-painting/

http://www.learnwithplayathome.com/2014/01/paintsicles-frozen-paint-cubes-for.html

http://pocketofpreschool.blogspot.in/2015/01/exploring-ice-and-giveaway.html

http://frogsandsnailsandpuppydogtail.com/color-mixing-with-ice-cubes-and-water/

http://danaspinkribbon.blogspot.in/2012/07/water-play-for-toddlers.html

http://www.playdoughtoplato.com/spelling-game-ice-excavation/

Well, I hope you will agree with me now that Ice Cubes are great for therapeutic fun!

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Hands-On Learning : Match the Keys Freebie

This is a really wonderful activity I found on Desert Crafter Blog and is an adaptation of an activity originally found on Relentlessly Fun Deceptively Educational Blog, where she used this activity to teach additions and named it Unlocking the Keys to simple Addition.

http://deceptivelyeducational.blogspot.in/2011/10/unlocking-keys-to-simple-addition.html

Follow this link to visit this blog, there you will find the 4 page PDF printable for this activity.

This activity is good for developing matching skills, thinking skills and visual skills.

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Hands-On Learning : Free Road Letters Printable

http://www.giftofcuriosity.com/free-road-letters-printable-for-learning-the-alphabet-101-ways-to-teach-the-alphabet/

If your kiddo loves cars, here’s an activity that he/she will love and is very therapeutic, a combination any parent/teacher will love!

The link above will take you to Katie’s Gift of Curiosity, a really good website.

             There are both uppercase letters and lowercase letters in two versions – one with coloured backgrounds and another with white background. We chose the printer friendly white background version.

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Hands-On Learning : Paint the Popcorn

                          http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/64767/milk-paint-popcorn-rainbow

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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Hands-On Learning : With Push Pins

                       http://www.playathomemomllc.com/2013/03/getting-creative-with-push-pins/

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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Hands-On Learning : Magic Letters

                           http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2012/05/alphabet-for-starters-magic-letters.html

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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Hands-On Learning : Logic Colours With Sticks

http://www.slideshare.net/estherrsantos/dots-41352522

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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Hands-On Learning : With Ear Buds/Q -tip

                      http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/2013/05/q-tip-painting-alphabet-printables/

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 :

http://www.playdoughtoplato.com/holiday-busy-bags/ 

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Hands-On Learning : Button Snake

http://happyhooligans.ca/button-snake/

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 :

http://mamaot.com/button-snake/

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Hands-On Learning : Free Prewriting Practice Pattern Worksheets

http://3dinosaurs.com/wordpress/

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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