Arctic animal yoga is one of my favorite ways to make movement fun during the winter months. I love adding stories to these themed movement ideas to make the movement ideas even more captivating for kids. The winter yoga and movement story has been such a hit I created a an ...
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January Gross Motor Planning
Hello January! It's the start of the New Year and the dead of winter. When I think of January gross motor planning I think of all things snow and cold as well as a fresh start with the New Year upon us. I like to break January gross motor planning down into different themes for ...
Fine Motor Activities To Work on Gross Motor Skills
With a background in physical therapy I work a lot on gross motor skills. What I've found over the years, is that I use a lot of fine motor activities to work on gross motor skills! Since fine motor skills and gross motor skills go hand in hand, it's really no surprise that ...
Winter Yoga Story – Movement Story
If you are a regular reader of this website, you know how I'm all about making movement fun and meaningful for kids. I LOVE a good theme and love to incorporate movement in themes. It's just more fun. In addition to the themes I've started to create stories to go along with ...
Snowball Relay – Winter Movement Game
Winter will be here shortly. Being from Minnesota, I always find it hard to believe winter starts in late December as the winter weather has already been here for a while! I'm excited to share a fun winter themed game that is perfect for the entire winter season and a fun ...
Christmas Gross Motor – Jingle Jive
Are you looking for a fun way to add movement and physical activity with a holiday theme? Need Christmas gross motor ideas? How about dancing like elves? The Jingle Jive is a fun game to create dancing routines during the holidays. The Jingle Jive is a great way to move and ...
Santa Boots Gross Motor Path
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 ...
Christmas Motor Planning Ideas
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 ...
Reindeer Boot Camp – Holiday Gross Motor
If you are looking for a fun gross motor themed activity to try this December Reindeer boot 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 to ...
Supportive Classroom Seating -Alternative and Complex Classroom Seating Needs
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 ...
All About Shapes Yoga For Kids
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! ...
E-Books For Pediatric Therapists
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. ...
Thanksgiving Motor Planning Ideas
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 ...
Sports Themed Yoga
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 ...
Vertical Surface Activities for Gross Motor Skills
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 ...
Dinosaur Themed Yoga
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 ...
Halloween Motor Planning Activities -Fine Motor and Gross Motor
With Halloween approaching it's the perfect time to start thinking about Halloween motor planning activities. It's my five year olds favorite holiday and he gets really into Halloween. We have several different fine motor and gross motor activities to do this year that all ...
Pumpkin Themed Motor Planning
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 ...
Physical Activity and Motor Planning For Kids – All Access Pass
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 ...
Fun Ideas For Combining Gross Motor and Fine Motor Skills
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 are ...