Teletherapy Draw a Person with FREEBIE handwriting paper Step by step guided through using the booklet and Adobe Illustrator - I drew on illustrator and shared my screen. If you do not have a high level program like Illustrator, you can easily do this through...
Halloween Jack-o-lantern craft and Differentiated Writing Activity! Pre-k, Kindergarten, First grade and Special Education differentiated writing and craft!Make a project and writing about it with differentiated activities! Printable templates for the craft project....
Fun Way to Set Up Fine Motor Centers! This is a table from Sam’s Warehouse. My husband sawed the legs down to make it shorter, and replaced the rubber caps. Then we used footstools at each lab. The rings are gross motor rings from educational catalogs. This...
Bat Tree Freebie: This is a fun FREEBIE. Make a popcycle stick tree. The base was a cone. You could cover the popcycle sticks with brown construction paper. Print out the bats and attach to hair bands. Use tongs or tweezers to put the bats in the tree....
Give a Pumpkin a Haircut Craft! This is a fun activity for the Fall! Materials needed: 6-7 inch lengths of colored yarn, orange play doh, scissors, wiggly eyes, tape, glue Directions: Lay the strips of yard together and tape one end tightly. Glue the end into...
Pipe Cleaner Figures and Drawing Activity This is a fun writing topic and also includes an excellent visual motor activity to teach children how to draw a person. All you need are pipe cleaners, and markers or a pencil! After...
Grasp patterns are classified as static or dynamic. Children who have a static grasp, move the pencil with their wrist or arm. To have a dynamic grasp pattern, the fingers and the thumb activity work together to get dynamic movement. The optimal grasp pattern is a...
Pre-Graphomotor Skills Activities for Students with Special Needs Who Need to Improve Visual Attention to Graphomotor Activities I had a chat with a very sweet Mom yesterday, who has a child who is at the pre-graphomotor level. He has some nice skills it seems,...
Shaving Cream Puff Creature FUN! Materials needed: Shaving cream Dixie cup 2 teaspoons glue 1/2 teaspoon paint (I use biocolor paint or colorations paint from Discount School Supply but any paint or food coloring would work) Craft foam pieces and scissors Index...
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I am Jan McCleskey creator of the Fine Motor Store and owner of The Handwriting Clinic