Today, we have tons of awesome ideas for simple activities for kids using one easy prop. Ladies and gentlemen, roll out your yoga mats! This post contains affiliate links. Read more. Therapists, teachers, and parents are notorious for being able to turn even the most mundane materials into super fun activities for kids that efficiently target all kinds of motor skills, cognitive skills, and more! Below, we have lots of great ideas for turning one of the most simple materials - a yoga mat - into a skill building power house! Simple Activities for Kids Using a Yoga Mat! 1 || ... Read More about Using a Yoga Mat to Create Simple Activities for Kids
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Easy Chores for Kids
Are you looking for chores for kids that will be developmentally appropriate, while also earning your kiddo a couple of dollars? We have hit that phase in our house. My 12-year-old loves to go “downtown” with friends after school. The only stipulation is she must use her own money for whatever she wants to buy! At 12, it is no easy feat to earn the extra few bucks for her Starbucks Refresher. She keeps saying she wants some chores but... I am that type-A, perfectionist parent that loves a clean house. There is nothing better than a sparkly clean bathroom with a lit candle, and I love ... Read More about Easy Chores for Kids
13 Ways to Use a Foam Roller With Kids!
Have you ever seen a foam roller in the sporting goods section of your favorite store and wondered what they're for? They are colorful like pool noodles but not as flexible (the are actually very dense and hard) and they are short and stubby as opposed to long and lean like the pool toy. This post contains affiliate links. Read more. If you’re an athlete, you may know the foam roller as a torture device for the IT bands and hip flexors. And while this piece of therapy equipment is useful for things like releasing trigger points in muscles and working out tight tissue, we pediatric ... Read More about 13 Ways to Use a Foam Roller With Kids!
Target Dollar Spot Fine Motor Finds for Halloween!
There are some amazing finds in the Target Dollar Spot aisle -- you can get lost in those little bins in the front of the store - it's like a time warp! There is also a ton of potential kids activities just waiting to be discovered in those bins. Since we are all searching for great ideas to entertain kids during the upcoming Halloween season, we thought it would be fun to show you what pediatric therapists can create from those tchotchkes in the Target Dollar section! During a recent trip to Target, I walked out with a huge bag and a head full of fabulous treatment ideas for the ... Read More about Target Dollar Spot Fine Motor Finds for Halloween!
The Lucky Ducks Game: 7 Ways to Play
Have you ever played the Lucky Ducks Game? Laurie Gombash is here today to share her favorite ways to use this game with kids! This post contains affiliate links. Read more. Last week, we shared 25 Occupational and Physical Therapy supplies to start the year right - our favorite toys and games to facilitate gross motor, fine motor, and sensory motor play with kids. While this list was geared toward therapists, anyone can grab an item off of this list and play in a way that will encourage developmental skills! As a new grad working in pediatrics, one of the first games I realized ... Read More about The Lucky Ducks Game: 7 Ways to Play
Hand Games for Motor Skills and Cognitive Skills
Hand games are a great way to develop hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination, motor planning and midline crossing and they have been one of our top posts at The Inspired Treehouse. Why? Because nothing beats good old fashioned fun! Today, we are taking things up a notch and adding a bit of concentration to the traditional hand clapping games. The following four challenges require focus and sequencing and they still pack the motor punch that our last batch of games did. Hand Games for Concentration and Motor Skills These may take some practice to master, but once your kids get ... Read More about Hand Games for Motor Skills and Cognitive Skills
Fish Themed Sensory Motor Lesson Plan
Claire had a genius moment last week and busted out a sensory motor lesson plan for a group of preschoolers that I thought was SO AMAZING!! I think you will, too! The kids loved pretending to be fish flopping all over the dock, feeding the fish after using their super fingers to collect food, and catching flying fish with every ounce of bilateral coordination and hand-eye coordination that they could muster. Check out what we did! This would be the perfect push-in lesson plan for therapists who are interested in providing integrative services in the classroom. Fish Themed ... Read More about Fish Themed Sensory Motor Lesson Plan
The W-Sitting Debate Continues
We recently came across the article entitled Why W-Sitting Is Really Not So Bad for Kids, After All and felt compelled to restate our side of the w-sitting debate! As pediatric therapists, we have treated hundreds of kids and we have seen hundreds more in classrooms who are w-sitters. Our post about w-sitting has consistently been one of our most popular and most-read posts at The Inspired Treehouse and the w-sitting controversy continues to go on. The W-Sitting Debate While w-sitting can be a completely normal part of development for kids, it can also be a sign of underlying ... Read More about The W-Sitting Debate Continues
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