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 winter movement game that […]
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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 work on motor planning
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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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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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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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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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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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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 games
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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 there are motor planning calendars for summer available for
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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 and learning fun with these
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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 routines. Physical movement is an important part of child
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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 of dirt and
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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 season with spring fine motor
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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 bracket. The
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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 gross motor planning ideas are for you!
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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 that you
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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 St. Patrick’s Day fine motor activities!
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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 to move your entire body with a transportation theme!
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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 would give the flowers as his Valentine’s Day
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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 fine motor through manipulatives and play
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