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 ...
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Yoga Games for Kids
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! ...
Apple Themed Fine Motor and Gross Motor Planning
Hello back to school season and planning season. It's apple week! We have a big apple tree in our backyard that is FULL of apples this year. They aren't the best for eating, but they work great for cooking. Honestly, I don't even know what kind of apples we have, it came with ...
Back To School Motor Planning
The school year is upon us! It's a busy time with lots of new friends and routines. Physical activity and motor planning skills are still a must even in the first few weeks of school. Combining movement and learning along with fun motor activities can make it easy to fit in ...
Relay Races For Kids
Summer is upon us and it's the perfect time to get outside and move. Relay races for kids is a fun way to do this! Whether you are looking for activities for your own kids, a family get together, camp, or summer school you need to check out these kids relay games! The relay ...
Summer Gross Motor Planning – Printable Summer Activity Calendars
Summer is just around the corner! Hooray! School is out and many therapists and parents are looking for simple and fun activities to do with their kids or to send home with their kids. At Pink Oatmeal, is all about gross motor planning. This means that ...
Free Printable Scavenger Hunts
We are all about making movement fun. One of the most fun ways to move is with a scavenger hunt! That's why we've created several fun free printable scavenger hunts for you to use to make including movement in your day easier. Download one or download them all. Make movement ...
5 Tips For Incorporating Movement into Busy School and Home Routines
I am excited to welcome Sarah Selznick, MS OTR/L from Sarah The O.T. to the blog today. She is an occupational therapist with a background working with children and in the schools. She is sharing with us five tips for incorporating movement into busy school and home ...
Garden Themed Fine Motor Activities
Hello spring! It's time to start thinking about what is going to be planted in your garden. At least where I'm from, planting doesn't take place until May, but planning is going on all April. I think gardens are so cool and such a great learning experience as you have a bunch ...
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 ...
Basketball Themed Gross Motor and Fine 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 and Fine Motor
The ocean is a great theme for gross motor and fine 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 fine motor and ocean themed ...
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 ...
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 ...