﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Pediatric Occupational Therapy activity ideas search engine</title><link>https://www.otplan.com</link><description>Match the skills you want to work on, with the materials you have, to a detailed treatment activity that will help you strengthen certain skills. Each activity details the purpose, materials needed, process, rating for the activity, and comments by people just like you.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>(c) 2018, OTPlan - All Rights Reserved.</copyright><ttl>5</ttl><item><title>Monster Eyes</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/monster-eyes.aspx</link><description>Create a fun game using a cardboard shoebox box and marbles. Work on eye-hand coordination while trying to roll the marble into the eye socket.</description><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category></item><item><title>Bean Bag Balance Game</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/bean-bag-balance-game.aspx</link><description>Promote balance and motor planning with a few households materials.</description><category>Balance</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Visual Perception</category></item><item><title>Pom Pom Challenge</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/pom-pom-challenge.aspx</link><description>Work on fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, counting, and number identification. The object of the game is to get the pom pom to roll through all the numbered pieces in the correct order. 

For toddlers, they can practice rolling the pom pom around through the tunnels and identifying numbers.</description><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Motor Planning</category></item><item><title>Matching Mittens</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/matching-mittens.aspx</link><description>This winter themed activity can be done all year long. It promotes the child's visual perceptual skills as the child is looking for matching mittens, and fine motor skills as the child manipulates the clothespins. 

If you let the child cut the mittens and decorate them as well, you also work on visual motor skills.</description><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Visual Motor</category><category>Visual Perception</category></item><item><title>Paper Rolls Building</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/paper-rolls-building.aspx</link><description>A creative activity that uses the child's imagination and develops fine and visual motor skills.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Clip the Kites</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/clip-the-kites.aspx</link><description>The activity is designed to develop and promote fine motor and visual motor skills, as well as to strengthen the finger muscles by manipulating school supplies.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Caterpillar Clips</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/caterpillar-clips.aspx</link><description>This colorful activity promotes finger strength and functional grasp. The child will practice cutting skills as he cuts a leaf for his new caterpillar friend.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Ice Cream Scooper</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/ice-cream-scooper.aspx</link><description>Scooping ice cream is a fun activity that promotes ADL skills. In this activity, we combine finger strength with the development of cutting skills, as the child makes his own ice cream in a cone.</description><category>ADL</category><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Forearm Pronation</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Bean Mosaic</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/bean-mosaic.aspx</link><description>Use small pellets such as beans or small buttons to strengthen finger muscles and promote pincer grasp pattern.</description><category>Distal Finger Control</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Finger Translation</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Hand Dexterity</category><category>In-hand Manipulation</category><category>Pincer Control</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Decorated Bead Box</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/decorated-bead-box.aspx</link><description>Decorate a plastic box with beads to work on fine motor control, pincer grasp, and tactile perception.</description><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Hand Dexterity</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Construction Paper Guitar</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/construction-paper-guitar.aspx</link><description>Make your own cardboard guitar with rubber band strings to work on finger strength and fine motor control.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category></item><item><title>Wind Sock</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/wind-sock.aspx</link><description>Create a Wind Sock using craft sticks, markers, toilet paper roll, glue, tape, string, and tissue paper. Promote fine motor control, cutting, bilateral hand use, and visual motor skills.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Addition Turtle</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/addition-turtle.aspx</link><description>Create an Addition Turtle to promote writing, cutting, bilateral hand use, and pincer grasp.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category></item><item><title>Fathers Day Bow Ties</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/fathers-day-bow-ties.aspx</link><description>Father's Day craft activity. Promote motor planning, bilateral hand use, and cutting skills by creating bow ties made out of hand prints.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Tactile Perception</category></item><item><title>Felt Bird</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/felt-bird.aspx</link><description>Create a toy felt bird and promote cutting, tactile perception, and motor planning.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Paper Roll Sheep</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/paper-roll-sheep.aspx</link><description>Work on tactile perception, hand dexterity, and visual motor by creating a sheep figure out of toilet roll and cotton balls.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Hand Dexterity</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Finger Puppet Mouse</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/finger-puppet-mouse.aspx</link><description>Create a finger puppet mouse while working on visual motor and eye-hand coordination skills using construction paper and glue.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Colourful flower art</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/colourful-flower-art.aspx</link><description>Create a flower out of toilet paper rolls, glue, and color to promote cutting skills, visual motor, and bilateral hand use.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Tripod Grasp</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Egg Carton Fish</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/egg-carton-fish.aspx</link><description>Work on bilateral hand use, cutting, and pincer grasp by creating a colorful fish out of egg carton.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Clothespins Butterfly</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/clothespins-butterfly.aspx</link><description>Work on pincer grasp, finger strength, fine motor control, and cutting while creating a colorful butterfly using clothespins and construction paper.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Visual Motor</category><category>Visual Perception</category></item><item><title>Paper Roll Caterpillar</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/paper-roll-caterpillar.aspx</link><description>Promote cutting skills, pincer grasp, bilateral hand use, and imagination by creating a caterpillar. Each little creature you make can be unique depending on how long you make it, the colors you use and how the caterpillar is decorated.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Cutting</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Hand Dexterity</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Tactile Perception</category></item><item><title>Feel the Turkey</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/feel-the-turkey.aspx</link><description>This fun, Thanksgiving related activity, promotes cutting skills, as well as provides tactile input, as the child feels the different textures glued onto the turkey's feathers.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Fine Motor Control</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Sensory Processing</category><category>Tactile Perception</category><category>Visual Motor</category></item><item><title>Balance on the Web</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/balance-on-the-web.aspx</link><description>In this activity, the child will promote motor planning skills, as he plans his route on the spider web. In addition, he will strengthen his balance skills and his core, while walking on the web lines and squatting down to pick up objects</description><category>Balance</category><category>Body Awareness</category><category>Core Strengthening</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Motor Planning</category><category>Pincer Grasp</category><category>Visual Perception</category></item><item><title>Hang Up a Pattern</title><link>https://www.otplan.com/plans/hang-up-a-pattern.aspx</link><description>Through the use of clothespins and a visual pattern, the child promotes visual perception skills, develops pincer grasp, and practices crossing mid-line.</description><category>Bilateral Hand Use</category><category>Crossing Midline</category><category>Eye-Hand Coordination</category><category>Finger Strength</category><category>Grasp</category><category>Pincer Control</category><category>Visual Perception</category></item></channel></rss>