I love all of the different motor and sensory paths I am seeing out there. If you are a regular reader or have been looking through this website you will notice that I LOVE themes. That’s why I created the Santa Boots gross motor game that is perfect for Christmas! It’s easy to set up […]
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The holiday season is here and it is a busy time of the year. I want to take motor planning off your plate this month and make this a little bit easier for you. I’m sharing with you some of my favorite Christmas motor planning ideas. The Christmas motor planning ideas include both holiday themed
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If you are looking for a fun gross motor themed activity to try this December, Reindeer Games Camp is a must! It’s a really fun way to work on gross motor skills with a holiday theme. In reindeer boot camp the kids will see all the work the reindeer have to do to get ready
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I’m excited to welcome Nik Sell a school-based physical therapist to the blog today! He will be sharing some great options for supportive classroom seating for alternative and complex classroom seating needs. Sitting. Sitting might seem like a pretty boring topic. Most of us spend a great deal of our day sitting. In a meeting.
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I love combining moving with learning and one fun way to do that is by doing shapes yoga for kids. The yoga poses are your traditional yoga poses with a twist to make them easy for kids to relate to shapes. It’s a fun way for kids to kinesthetically work on learning!
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We are lucky that there are so many valuable resources available to us as therapists! Several of these resources are even created by therapists. I love creating resources myself, like the resources in the shop! I also love getting resources from other pediatric therapists. One of my favorite resources is e-books. I find them far more
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With Thanksgiving approaching it’s the perfect time to start thinking about Thanksgiving motor planning activities. I love Thanksgiving, I don’t like turkey, but I love that there are four days in a row that everyone in my family is home! We have several different fine motor and gross motor activities to do this year that
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Sports are something that my boys go crazy for. So much so that my 14 month old girl walks around the house holding a football card saying “football” and smiling. They love to bring their basketball, baseball, and football sports activity cards to daycare/preschool for everyone to do and everyone at daycare/preschool loves them. With
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One of my favorite ways to do therapy with kids was using a vertical surface. There are a ton of benefits to working on a vertical surface including wrist extension, spatial awareness, visual attentions, shoulder and elbow stability, core strength etc. That being said, I also LOVED to use vertical surface activities to incorporate gross
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Who knows kids that are dinosaur crazy? Honestly, at my house they are not. I had made my oldest son’s bedroom a dinosaur theme and once he had an opinion that room switched to a sports theme. That being said I’ve worked with tons and tons of kids that LOVE dinosaurs. I started out with
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With Halloween approaching it’s the perfect time to start thinking about Halloween motor planning activities. It’s my five year old’s favorite holiday and he gets really into Halloween. We have several different fine motor and gross motor activities to do this year that all include a Halloween theme. If Halloween isn’t something you celebrate be
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I always think of October as pumpkin season. So far we’ve been to a pumpkin patch as well as picked up pumpkins at a farm store. My kids are pumpkin crazy. That being said, I’ve put together some fun pumpkin themed motor planning ideas. These pumpkin themed motor planning ideas touch on both fine motor
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The mission of Pink Oatmeal is to make physical activity and motor planning for kids fun and easy. One of the ways that is done is through the downloadable resources available in the shop. Now it’s being expanded to include the option to have an all access pass to all of the resources in the
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This year we have been doing more fine motor activities in my house as I have two preschoolers (almost 3 and just turned 5) living with me. It took a while for my 5 year old to even care to do anything that involved sitting at the table, but since he is interested now we
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So you want to start a therapy blog! Let’s discuss some considerations about blogging as a therapist. These considerations are especially important if you are creating authority with your profession (OT, PT, or SLP). Before I go any further, I am not a lawyer (this is called a disclaimer we are going to discuss them
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I have several questions that land in my inbox on a daily basis. One of the big ones I’ve been getting lately is how did you start your blog? Can you give me some tips on how to start mine? How did you do it with kids? How much time does it take? There is
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The sound of crinkling leaves, the shorter days, and all things pumpkin are reminders that fall is officially here! Now is a great time to incorporate the fall themed gross motor and fine motor activities into your planning for your classroom, home or therapy sessions.
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What’s not to love about a Superhero? Kids love superheroes! The ability to fly, scale buildings, and disappear in the blink of the eye? I can see the draw. With all of the super powers and super skills, it’s only natural that superhero activities are a must for any fine motor or gross motor activities.
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Today’s children are expected to know more, sit longer, and have rigid testing requirements. This has helped contribute to in increased stress levels and decreased opportunity for physical activity. With the new school year beginning and new routines starting, it’s the perfect time to start trying yoga for the classroom to try to combat these issues.
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Yoga games for kids are one of my favorite ways to incorporate yoga. Kids yoga games don’t have to be complicated. I love adding a yoga spin to some of my favorite games from the past. Their is no need for extensive equipment to make the games fun!
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