These are the perfect games to use in therapy sessions or in the classroom to strengthen core muscles in kids! *This post contains affiliate links. Read more. I am willing to bet that at least half of you reading this post have a goal to improve your core strength? So, let me ask you this…would you rather do 100 reps of the dreaded bicycle crunch or play a game of UNO? I am pretty sure I know the answer. [Continue Reading]
Snowy Day Movement Story for Kids
This Snowy Day Movement Story is great for working on motor planning, balance, coordination, problem solving, concentration, self-regulation, core strength and body awareness while having tons of fun! Creative movement ideas have become a specialty of ours not only at The Inspired Treehouse but also at our non-profit location, The Treehouse. As a team, we can turn just about any theme into a movement-packed, developmental skill building activity! Last winter, we came up with this cute Snowy Day Movement Story [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]
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]
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]
The Best Therapy Toys and Tools for Kids
Here are our top therapy toys and tools for kids, along with tons of ideas for how to play with each of them to build developmental skills! One of the best things about our job as therapists is finding creative ways to use basic therapy toys and materials to promote developmental skills for the kids in our therapy practice. And then, we get the added perk of being able to share all of our favorite ways to play with these therapy [Continue Reading]
FREE Printable Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt
In the spirit of the season, we thought it would be fun to put together a gratitude Thanksgiving scavenger hunt. This one is great for working on handwriting and sensorimotor skills! There is always talk of gratitude and thoughtful reflection at this time of year. Social media feeds are flooded with reminders to slow down and actually look around for things that bring you joy. But how many of us actually do that? How many of us really think about how thankful [Continue Reading]
Move to the Menu: Thanksgiving Games for Kids
These Thanksgiving games for kids take all the best parts of a turkey dinner and put them to movement! We’ve all done it…regretted eating that huge Thanksgiving dinner the second we stopped stuffing our faces and got up from the table. And, if your house is as noisy as mine, the nap you’re desperate for is just not going to happen. So, how about a little exercise to get that digestion process started? These gross motor activities for kids take [Continue Reading]