Articles related to "Fine Motor Skills"



Fine Motor Skill Educational Toys
Looking for a way for children to practice their fine motor skills and improve their handwriting? These educational toys are fun activities that will build small muscles.
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Easy Preschool Fine Motor Activities
Fine motor skills are crucial for later academic success. These simple and inexpensive activities allow preschoolers to practice important fine motor skills each day.
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A Baby's Development
The article discusses how babies develop over time, and what parents can do to support their growth, encourage skills and lead babies toward independence. It mentions skills in the areas of physical movement, tracking, attention-span, fine motor skills, communication skills, social skills and cognitive skills.
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Occupational Therapy for Autism
Occupational therapists help individuals with an autism spectrum disorder improve both fine and gross motor skills plus address sensory processing concerns.
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Building Handwriting Muscles
Memories of Playdoh: cookies, flowers, dinosaurs, and whatever you could dream up. Playdoh offers more for a child with cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.
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But, He's Reading On A Third Grade Level!
Understanding the "uneven" development of "gifted" children.
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Down Syndrome Baby Gifts
One of our readers wrote asking about gift ideas for her eight month old grandchild with Down syndrome.
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Dry Erase Boards for Kids with LD
Kids with learning disabilities love to practice spelling words and math problems on dry erase boards.
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Elementary Mother's Day Activity
Mother's Day is coming! Help your students create beautiful and useful gifts for the most important woman in their lives.
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Handprint Flowers for Mother's Day
Students build fine motor skills while creating flowers for a spring bulletin board or Mother's Day gift -- a perfect addition to a multi-disciplinary garden theme unit!
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Handwriting versus Technology
The article discusses how handwriting skills are disappearing fast because of the increasing use of computers, in the way of presenting text. It points out a number of experiments performed to show how children are lacking in handwriting skills, but also how computers can improve children's spelling and literacy skills.
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If they build it, they will learn.
Suggestions for making Legos accessible to children who lack fine motor skills and suggestions for virtual construction set software alowing children with disabilities to build on-screen.
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Making Paper Chains
In this article find a simple cutting, pasting, and decorating project for kids. Use this project to teach sequencing and to encourage reading skills and good habits.
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Playdough for Special Needs Kids
Fine motor skills as used in writing as well as vocabulary skills can be improved with play dough. Special educators and occupational therapists love play dough.
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Puzzles and the Mentally Retarded
Jigsaw puzzles are traditional family fun. They also encourage valuable thinking skills for developmentally delayed children.
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Virtual Field Trip Lesson Plan
Technology allows students to take educational field trips, even when funding isn't available, when they create travel brochures that support learning objectives.
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A Guide to Homeschool Preschoolers
A structured preschool homeschool curriculum may be an unwise approach for children. Using the child's interests to provide rich experiences may be of greater benefit.
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Review of My Work by CD Garden
Review of a simple but spectacular CD-Rom designed for children ages 2 through 8. This software would be especially beneficial for children with special needs.

Alliteration Activities
Students use alliteration and consonance to write original fairy tale story titles and create poetry using words cut out of magazines.
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Easter Cards and Other Craft Ideas
Tessellating Easter Bunnies and Geometric Patterns can be the source of Great Easter Gift Ideas. Before holidays teachers look for inspiring educational activities.
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Elementary Halloween Lantern Craft
Students will enjoy decorating the classroom with creative Halloween themed construction paper lanterns. Bats and black cats and witches, oh my!
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Handwriting Without Tears Training
Handwriting Without Tears Two-Day Workshops provide professional development for educators and Occupational Therapists who teach writing readiness, print and cursive.
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Horse Sock Puppet
Easily adapted for a western, fairytale or animal theme, these sock puppets are easy to make and work well for action songs and stories.
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Paper Plate Frog Puppet
Perfect for a spring, summer or animal theme, these paper plate frog puppets are easy to make and work well for action songs and stories.
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Penmanship Curriculum Review
From handwriting readiness to cursive, Jan Olsen's Handwriting Without Tears Curriculum teaches developmentally appropriate writing skills using multiple learning styles.
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The Skills of a Toddler
The article outlines difficulties toddlers undergo when lacking Fine Motor and Gross Motor skills. Teaching basic skills in the correct sequence can ensure mastery in the higher,more complex skills. The article draws on information from the 'Australian Institute of Learning' as well as 'Maria Montessori'.
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Art Curriculum for Any Holiday
Extend curriculum with fun tissue paper crafts that can be used in classrooms, homeschools, Scouts, and Sunday schools to commemorate thematic units or holidays.
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Giant Pegboard Teaching Tips
The Giant Pegboard helps your toddler or preschooler improve gross motor and fine motor co-ordination. Use it to teach colors, counting, number concepts and matching.
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Piano Lessons for Children
The piano is an ideal first instrument for children who want to learn to read music, and play a musical instrument. It's good for kids in other areas of their lives too.
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Play & Learn
How children learn through play.
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Sunday School Bulletin Board Ideas
Preschoolers love bulletin boards, especially when they are interactive and lively. Here are some ideas to make your Sunday School bulletin board be just that!
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Free Handwriting Resources, Supplements and Guidance
Teaching handwriting can be a little more complicated than it looks. Here are some free resources to help your little writers!
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Water Party for Preschoolers
Host a water party for preschoolers with items from around the house and yard. Set up age appropriate water activities for outdoor summer fun.
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Craft Recipes
Some wonderful craft recipes for your kids. They are fun and can makes lots of different neat things with them.
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Cursive Writing For Kids
Should students learn cursive writing in school? Teachers, you decide after reading the advantages and disadvantages of students learning cursive writing.
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Fishy Lacing Cards
Make some lacing cards for the little ones.
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Art Project: Phases of the Moon
In this art project for kids age 8-12, create a crater-like moon surface with rubbed textures and phases of the moon. This fun project combines art and science.
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Beginner Crochet Book Review
"Get Hooked Again" [Watson-Guptill Publications, 2007] introduces readers to the world of crocheting and how to create wearable art.
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Building Cognitive Skills
Children with fragile medical conditions such as hydrocephalus and cytomeglia virus may not tolerate outside activities in the heat. Here is a way to celebrate indoors.
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Choosing a Music Class for a Young Child
Here are five key points to help you decide whether a music class is right for your child.
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Dental Health in Preschoolers
Your child's dental health is important. This article offers ways for parents to prevent oral health problems in preschoolers.
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Elementary Fine Motor Lesson Plans
Fine motor skills are important for academic success. Help students to develop tactile strength and dexterity with engaging arts and crafts activities.
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Hippotherapy
Hippotherapy has nothing to do with talking to hippos to see what is eating them. It does have everything to do with the benefits of horseback riding as a therapy technique for gross motor, fine motor and communication skills. Read on for more information....

Indoor Fun
When the weather outside is frightful, keeping your kids entertained can be far from delightful.
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My Body, Your Body, Everybody Has a Body
Preschoolers discover the wonder of their bodies.
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Playing With Babies and Toddlers
The Parent's Guide to Play contains 170 games, songs and activities for parents and caregivers to play with their children as they grow from babies to toddlers.
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Puzzle Panic
Quick way to organize puzzles when all the pieces are mixed up
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School Fun for Preschoolers
Sit your preschoolers down at a table or small desk with some kindergarten supplies and let them do some school work for fun and learning.
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Story Hour & Physically Challenged
Story hour at the library is a popular activity for families with young children. Including a child who has a physical disability can be accomplished in ten easy steps.
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Children with Special Needs
Children with special needs need special care. Learn what your Children's Ministry can do to reach out to the families of kids with special needs.
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