Spring is officially here and April is the perfect time to add all the fun spring themes to your motor programming. This April motor planning ideas include the themes - insects, bugs, and creepy crawlers, farm, baseball and earth/weather. It also includes bonus Easter ideas. ...
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Spring Fine Motor Activities
Don't you just love the smell of spring? The fresh air and I can finally open my windows again feeling is so much appreciated after a long winter. Although, spring is often a short season where I'm from, it's a season I have great appreciation for. We are celebrating this ...
March Motor Planning Ideas – Fine Motor and Gross Motor
March is here and full of great options for gross motor planning. With St. Patrick's Day, the basketball tournaments, Spring etc. it makes it easy for March gross motor planning. Check out all of the different ideas for March gross motor planning. ...
Basketball Themed Gross Motor Ideas
In March, it's tournament time. If you live in the same type of home that I do, there is no doubt you are aware of this. Our television is flipping from one tournament game to another and even high school basketball tournaments. Every once in a while I'll even get in on a ...
Ocean Themed Gross Motor
The ocean is a great theme for gross motor activities! The ocean life and ocean activities make it fun and easy to incorporate movement into your gross motor planning. Whether you are a teacher, therapist, or parent these ocean themed gross motor planning ideas are for you! ...
Pet Gross Motor Planning Ideas
I love a good theme when it comes to gross motor planning! Most kids love their pets. So why not make it pet gross motor planning? The fact that pets are animals makes pet gross motor planning a breeze. It adds the fun factor for kids too! Check out all the different ways ...
St. Patrick’s Day Fine Motor Activities
It's just about March and that means St. Patrick's Day isn't too far away! Are you ready with fun fine motor activities? It's an easy theme to incorporate with rainbows, leprechauns and gold! At Pink Oatmeal, we've been doing some fun activities already! Check out all of our ...
Transportation Themed Gross Motor Planning
Transportation themed activities are the perfect addition to your gross motor plans. It's fun to move like trucks, cars, and planes. Incorporate everything from yoga to working on vertical surfaces into your transportation themed activities. Check out all the different ideas ...
Valentine’s Day Printables – Flowers Fine Motor
With Valentine's Day around the corner it's the perfect theme to add into motor play. We've added it for gross motor and fine motor activities. One of our favorite fine motor activities was making Valentine's Day Flowers. My preschooler liked it so much that he decided he ...
Valentine’s Day Fine Motor Activities
With Valentine's Day quickly approaching it’s the perfect time to add this theme into your fine motor and gross motor activities. Fine motor with conversation hearts and cupid is the best. At a young age (3-5) I’m not a big fan of tons of worksheets, but instead working on ...
Valentine’s Day Motor Planning
Valentine's Day will be here in just a few short days. Valentine's Day often comes with Valentine's Day parties or celebrations. It's also the perfect time to go with a Valentine's Day theme for your motor planning. There are a lot of fun ideas out there that can be used for ...
Winter Games Gross Motor Activities
With the Winter Games quickly approaching it's the perfect theme to add to motor planning activities! There are so many great winter sports as part of the Winter Games that it's easy to make activities fun for the kids and stick with the theme! Here are some fun fine gross ...
Winter Games Fine Motor Activities
With the Winter Olympics quickly approaching it's the perfect time to add this theme into your fine motor and gross motor activities. All the different sports make adding winter games fine motor activities easy. At a young age (3-5) I'm not a big fan of tons of worksheets, but ...
Winter Sports Stations
It's almost time for the winter games to start! I love watching them. My personal favorites are figure skating and downhill skiing! Incorporating winter sports is such a fun and easy way to work on fitness. Setting up fitness stations with a winter sports theme is a fast and ...
Football Gross Motor Planning
It's that time of the year when most people are watching football in some way. Maybe they are just watching the big game for the commercials but football is the theme. Being a Minnesotan myself, this year is especially exciting as the Super Bowl is in Minnesota. Although, the ...
Arctic Animal Gross Motor Planning Week
There is no better time than the winter for Arctic Animals. There is no better unit than the Arctic to add to your gross motor planning. The animals of the Arctic make it fun and easy to incorporate arctic animal themed gross motor into your therapy, classroom, preschool, or ...
Simple Gross Motor Game With Paper Plates
Are you ever in a bind where you need something simple and fast to work on gross motor skills? For this activity all you will need is some paper plates to work on balance and coordination. There are simple variations that you can do to the activity to make this simple gross ...
Winter Gross Motor Planning Week
There is no better time than January to focus on all things winter! Honestly, winter gross motor week could be done any time from December through March, but January just seems right. During Winter Week the focus of all gross motor activities revolve around all things winter. ...
Printing PDF Files Tip
I love hearing from readers and will often get different requests. One of these requests is in regards to my yoga printables. The yoga printable cards are created as 2 per page. Some people are wanting to get them smaller, something similar to four per page. I totally get ...
Gross Motor Planning – Fitness Week
Fitness week is a fun theme to add to gross motor planning almost any time of the year. Personally, I really like the theme at the beginning of January when everyone is making their resolutions. Check out all of the other themes I like to include in January. The fitness theme ...