One of our favorite Valentines ideas last year was our free printable Heart Jump game. It was such a hit that we felt compelled to come up with a new gross motor game this Valentine’s Day! *This post contains affiliate links. Read more here. When I saw a bunch of $3 yoga mats at the store, I knew that they would be perfect for creating a new activity for the kiddos I work with at school. Yoga mats are great for cutting into shapes that can be used on the floor as targets for jumping, hopping, throwing, etc. The resistive rubber keeps them from sliding underfoot! I came up with this ... Read More about VALENTINES IDEAS FOR KIDS: CONVERSATION HEART JUMP GAME
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Hearts Jumping Activity for Kids
This jumping activity for kids offers the opportunity to practice motor planning, body control, and more! Once kids figure out how to jump, they are hard to stop! This important developmental milestone is not only fun, it is important. Here are some of the benefits of jumping: Strengthening Coordination Motor planning Cardiovascular Learning How to Jump Kids typically learn to jump around the age of two with this skill progressing from being able to jump up a few inches to forward, down and over. Check out our blog post about Creative Ideas for Learning How to ... Read More about Hearts Jumping Activity for Kids
Jumping Hearts: A Gross Motor Jumping Game
Add this fun gross motor jumping game into your classroom or therapy routine this Valentine's Day! Heart Jump: A gross motor jumping game My baby boy (well, he's six but he’s still my baby!) loves to jump!! He needs absolutely no practice with jumping forward and backward, up and down, or side to side. However, controlling his body during varying sequences of jumps is a different story. I thought it would be fun to string together a few different jumping gross motor activities using hearts for our Valentine's Day theme. What You'll Need: -Hearts with footprints (scroll down and ... Read More about Jumping Hearts: A Gross Motor Jumping Game
Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids: Hearts & Arrows Visual Game
We love coming up with new Valentine's Day Activities for Kids! Today's Hearts & Arrows Game is perfect for challenging visual skills! If you're an occupational therapist, you probably spend a good part of your day working with kids on visual motor skills. Whether it's handwriting or drawing, or utensil use - you know how important visual skills are when it comes to everyday functioning for kids. Sometimes, it can be hard to stay inspired and think of new, creative activities for your kids week after week. That's what we're here for! We find that the seasons and holidays often ... Read More about Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids: Hearts & Arrows Visual Game
Easy Valentine Crafts: Heart Spinners!
Looking for easy Valentine crafts? These colorful paper heart spinners are a great way to practice cutting on a line and bilateral coordination skills! Finding fun ways to practice scissor skills can be tough - it's easy for kids to get frustrated and when they get frustrated, often they struggle with attention and effort. Practicing cutting on straight lines can be especially repetitive! Today, we're sharing an awesome way to put those cutting skills into action to create a fun, colorful heart spinner! This easy Valentine craft is perfect for the classroom, the therapy room, or ... Read More about Easy Valentine Crafts: Heart Spinners!
Valentine’s Day Activities: Hearts & Arrows
Sometimes the same old Valentine’s Day activities that seem boring to you in your therapy practice just need a little jazzing up to make them new and exciting for the kids you treat (or your own children at home!). *This post contains affiliate links. Read more. So, I have a hidden talent. Give me a holiday (or any reason for celebration) and I can create a super simple activity from super simple materials that will magically target several skills at one time. As a pediatric physical therapist, it’s a great talent to have! :) Today, I present you with Hearts and Arrows. An ... Read More about Valentine’s Day Activities: Hearts & Arrows
The Best Valentine Paper Crafts
These fun Valentine paper crafts are a great way to get in the spirit of the season - and they're perfect for crafty kids! Today, we're rounding up a few of our favorite Valentine's Day paper crafts and activities for kids - staying true to our mission to provide you with ways to work with your child on developmental skills through creative play!I am a super crafty person...one who stalks Pinterest for the latest and greatest decoration to make for my house or craft to whip up with my kids. Sometimes I wish I had chosen occupational therapy for my career path. OTs incorporate all kinds ... Read More about The Best Valentine Paper Crafts
MOVEMENT MONDAY: VALENTINE’S IDEAS FOR KIDS!
Another Monday! Does anyone else feel like these weeks just fly by?!?! We hope that your week was fantastic and that you got to try some of the free printable activities for kids that we shared with you last week. It's time for this week's gross motor inspiration and we thought it would be a blast to share some Valentine's ideas for kids that get the whole body moving! These activities would be perfect for a classroom party (are you a room mom or a parent volunteer that struggles to find something that hasn't been done before -- we've got it covered!) or just for a fun afternoon at ... Read More about MOVEMENT MONDAY: VALENTINE’S IDEAS FOR KIDS!
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