Our best gift ideas for kids in one handy list! CLICK HERE!This simple gingerbread craft for kids is a great way to work on early scissor skills. It’s perfect for toddlers and other young kids who are just learning how to open and close scissors independently. We’re always on the lookout for cute holiday crafts and activities that help kids build important developmental skills like bilateral coordination, hand strength, and scissor skills! Today, we wanted to share this super simple [Continue Reading]
Gingerbread Game for Kids
This Gingerbread Game for Kids is a great way to work on core strength, coordination, motor planning, social skills and more! Perfect for the holiday season! One of our favorite activities that we’ve ever created for the Inspired Treehouse was Body Bridges. It was such a simple activity, but we loved it because of how effective it was at building core strength and upper body strength and because it was created by the kids themselves! We knew we already loved [Continue Reading]
Holiday Crafts: Snipped Up Christmas Trees
Our favorite holiday crafts are ones that target a range of motor skills like bilateral coordination, grasp, and hand strength. This snipped up Christmas tree covers all the bases! *This post contains affiliate links. Read more. We love the holidays! It’s our favorite time of year – the music, the food, the movies, the decorations, the shopping…and above all, the holiday crafts! This time of year is perfect for getting kids involved in creating their own holiday masterpieces (while also [Continue Reading]
Christmas Art Projects: Taped Up Christmas Trees!
Looking for fun and simple Christmas art projects for kids? These taped up Christmas trees are perfect for any age or ability level! *This post contains affiliate links. Read more. If you have spent any time with us here at The Inspired Treehouse, you know about our love affair with tape. It is by far one of our favorite and most-used supplies during therapy sessions and during our playgroup at The Treehouse. There are so many ways to use this [Continue Reading]
Printable Christmas Games: Santa Boot Camp
If you’re looking for printable Christmas games for kids, this Santa Boot Camp freebie will be right up your alley! Print the cards today and try it in your classroom, therapy practice, or with your kids at home! It is time for Santa to get in shape so he is strong and ready to deliver all of the goodies to the children of the world in just a few short weeks! His team of 8 has been going through their [Continue Reading]
DIY Advent Calendar for Fine Motor Skills
This simple DIY advent calendar is a great way to work on fine motor skills with kids and can encourage cognitive skills and language skills too! *This post contains affiliate links. Read more. If you live or work with kids, one of the most fun things about the holiday season is finding creative ways to count down to the big day! As therapists, we wanted to make a DIY advent calendar that would target a whole range of developmental skills. [Continue Reading]
Scavenger Hunt Games: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Looking for scavenger hunt games to try with your kids during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year? Check out this free printable! Our brains have been on fire this year with all kinds of fun new Thanksgiving activities! From turkey crafts to fine motor games to gratitude scavenger hunts and everything in between, we definitely have you covered when it comes to ideas for Thanksgiving this year! For me, the crowning glory of the Thanksgiving season happens on Thanksgiving day. [Continue Reading]
Fun Thanksgiving Games: Potato, Potato, Mashed Potato!
Add this awesome gross motor idea to your list of fun Thanksgiving games for kids! This one is sure to get a lot of laughs! We’re always on the lookout for new fun Thanksgiving games for kids and when we came up with this one, we knew we had a winner! The best part? No materials needed, no set-up, and no mess! What could be better? Oh wait, you’re also looking for a dose of core strengthening? Yep, this game [Continue Reading]
Therapy Bolster Ideas for Kids
Check out some of our favorite therapy bolster ideas for kids! *This post contains affiliate links. Read more. Okay all of you therapy brains out there, here’s a riddle… What is one of the only pieces of equipment you could have in your tiny little therapy “office” (you know the one…under the stairs, in the darkest hallway of the school) that can provide vestibular and proprioceptive input, opportunities for gross motor skill building, practice with balance and core strengthening benefits? [Continue Reading]