Check out our favorite kids gift ideas! Every gift on this page is a tried and true favorite of our kids at The Treehouse - toys and games that the kids beg to play with week after week! *This post contains affiliate links. Read more. Every year around this time, we spend time brainstorming fun and creative gift guide ideas. From fine motor gifts to the best gifts for kids who love to move - we’ve done them all! This year, we decided to consult with the experts to compile a list of our most-played-with toys of the year. You can’t go wrong with these kids gift ideas, because they ... Read More about Our Favorite Kids Gift Ideas – Top Picks from Our Treehouse Kids!
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FREE Printable Halloween Templates for Wikki Stix and Play Dough
These free printable Halloween templates are perfect to use with kids of all ages at home, in the classroom, during therapy sessions, or even at a Halloween party to practice fine motor skills and visual motor skills! Every year around this time, we’re on the lookout for some new free Halloween printables to use with our kids in therapy and during our play groups at The Treehouse. This year, we decided to create our own! How to Use the Free Halloween Templates 1 || Grab the free download above. 2 || Laminate each of the pages. 3 || Decide how you want to use the printable ... Read More about FREE Printable Halloween Templates for Wikki Stix and Play Dough
What’s Missing Visual Motor Activity for Kids
This fun visual motor activity is a great way to work on drawing/prewriting skills while also addressing visual perception. If you're familiar with visual perception skills, you might know about a fascinating skill called visual closure. Visual closure is the ability to complete an unfinished figure or shape by “filling in the blanks’ visually. This skill is important as kids learn to read and learn to complete puzzles by figuring out what is missing. Visual closure is why we're able to read quickly and fluently - we don't have to stop and look at each individual letter in a word ... Read More about What’s Missing Visual Motor Activity for Kids
Developmental Skills: Preventing the Summer Slide
Looking for fun and creative ideas to prevent the summer slide and keep kids active, learning and engaged to prepare for school? We've got you covered! Every year in our school based therapy practice, we create and send home summer packets for our students to help prevent the summer slide. We believe that practice makes perfect (or at least progress!) when it comes to school readiness! Check out these ideas for preventing the summer slide by practicing the foundation skills kids need most for school! Fun ways to prevent the summer slide! No one wants to think about school over the ... Read More about Developmental Skills: Preventing the Summer Slide
Winter Skier Cutting Craft
Looking for a fun and simple winter cutting craft? This fun little skier is perfect for preschoolers and other young kids who are learning to cut on lines and cut out shapes! We were looking for a new cutting craft for our Winter Sports theme at The Treehouse and this idea popped into my mind! This activity is a great way to have kids practice cutting on a line and cutting out a simple shape. If you use the black and white version you can also target pencil grasp, drawing, and prewriting skills as kids color in the skier and the mountains! Looking for more fun snowy ideas? Try this ... Read More about Winter Skier Cutting Craft
10 Pro Tips for Telehealth Physical Therapy & Occupational Therapy
Learning to provide telehealth physical therapy and telehealth occupational therapy is definitely a challenge. With these 10 pro tips, you'll be on your way to stress-free telehealth therapy sessions in no time! If you’ve spent the last several months feeling overwhelmed by constantly changing schedules and baffled by shifting service delivery models (from in-person, to hybrid, to remote and back again)... If your stress level is through the roof as you navigate the switch from in-person to telehealth physical therapy sessions and occupational therapy sessions… You’re in very good ... Read More about 10 Pro Tips for Telehealth Physical Therapy & Occupational Therapy
50 Low Prep Teletherapy Activities for Kids
Check out these Teletherapy Activities for your next virtual therapy session! This list is full of low-prep, low-maintenance ideas that will help you target all kinds of developmental skills with your clients. 50+ Low Prep Teletherapy Activities for Kids Click on the links and read through each post to get an idea of whether the activity will be a fit for your student/client. Then, scroll to the end of the post until you see the section entitled "For Virtual Sessions". Here, you'll find basic instructions on how to facilitate the activities during your next teletherapy session. And ... Read More about 50 Low Prep Teletherapy Activities for Kids
Hand Strength Red Flags for Kids
Use these hand strength red flags to help identify kids who need to work on developing the muscles of their hands, and then you can introduce fun and playful activities geared toward building hand strength! When I first meet a student in my school-based OT practice, the first thing I ask the child is if they know what OT is. Most often, the answer is no, so over the years, I’ve developed a super simple way to explain what an occupational therapist does in the school setting: I ask the child to name all of the things they can think of that they use their hands for during the ... Read More about Hand Strength Red Flags for Kids
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