OT Week of June 15-19

 

Fun Summer Activities!

• Playdough Fine Motor Activities: Here is a handout about some fun playdough activities you can do over the summer!

• 75 Fun and Inexpensive Summer Fine Motor, Gross Motor, and Sensory Activities: Here is a handout that includes 75 activities for you to do over the summer!

 

 

This Year Flew By Kite Craft Activity:

• • Materials Needed:

1. Kite Page (print from "This Year Flew By Kite Craft Activity"). Alternately draw a kite like the one in the picture using a thick black marker. No printing required!

2. Scissors

3. Tape

4. Crayons/Markers

5. Colored Ribbon or String

6. Scissors

• • Directions:

1. Color the kite, cut out the kite, and add a ribbon or string tail.

2. Write or copy answers to the following questions on the kite:

"This year in OT I..." (can draw prewriting shapes, scribble, write name, copy words, sentences, etc.)

and

"I still need to work on..." (can draw prewriting shapes, scribble, write name, copy words, sentences, etc.)

 

 

OT Week of June 8-12

THE RAINBOW FISH

• The Rainbow Fish: Watch and listen to The Rainbow Fish book!

• Weekly Warm Up: Complete one or more of the following:

  • F is for Fish Tracing: Follow the maze to the fish!

  • Fish Swimming Pre-Writing Shape Practice:

• Weekly Scissor Skills Cutting Task: Feed the Fish Cutting Practice

• Fish Color By Number

  • Weekly Writing Prompt: Complete one or more of the writing activities about The Rainbow Fish:

    • • A Good Friend Trace & Write: Trace the sentence starter and finish with what makes a good friend.

      • I make my friends feel special when: Use this sentence starter to write about how you make your friends feel special.

      • Fish Writing Paper: Use this paper to write about your favorite part of the story!

• Craft: The Rainbow Fish tear/cut and glue craft: Cut out the fish, tear or cut out paper (tissue or construction) then glue on to make your own rainbow fish!

OT Week of June 1-5

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Watch and listen to the Very Hungry Caterpillar book read to you by its Author, Eric Carle!

• Caterpillar to Butterfly Video: Watch this time lapse video of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly!

• Weekly Warm Up: Complete one or more of the following:

  • Pre-Writing Shape Tracing: Straight Lines and Curved Lines or Angled Lines

  • Caterpillar Hole Punch: Locate and use a hole punch to punch out all the C's on the leaf.

• Weekly Scissor Skills Cutting Task: Caterpillar Cutting Straight Lines or Caterpillar Cutting Curved Lines

• Butterfly Color By Number

  • Weekly Writing Prompt: Complete one or more of the writing activities about The Very Hungry Caterpillar:

    • • C is for Caterpillar Trace & Write

      • Trace & Write Words

      • Sentence Scramble: cut, glue and write sentence

      • Draw a picture and write about your favorite part of the story

• Craft: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cut and String Necklace

• OT Friday Fun Fine Motor: Let's Make Animal Lacing Cards

OT Week of May 25-May 29

Zoo & Dear Zoo

• Dear Zoo Book: Watch and listen to the Dear Zoo book read to you!

• San Diego Zoo: Visit the San Diego Zoo website and pick your favorite animal to watch on video.

• Weekly Warm Up: Zoo Spot the Difference or Giraffe Dot-to-Dot

• Weekly Scissor Skills Cutting Task: Lion Color & Cut Mask Activity : Color & cut to make a Lion Mask

• Zoo Activity & Coloring Pages:

  • Frog Drawing Page

  • Zoo Activity Page

  • Z is for Zoo Coloring Page

• Weekly Writing Prompt: Complete one or more of the writing activities about Zoos.

  • • • Dear Zoo Writing Prompt

      • Dear Zoo Letter

      • Zoo: Cut, Glue, Trace & Write Sentence

• OT Friday Fun Fine Motor: Let's Make A Paper Wind Chime

 

OT Week of May 18-May 22

Ladybugs & The Grouchy Ladybug

• The Grouchy Ladybug Book: Watch and listen to the Grouchy Ladybug book read to you!

• Weekly Warm Up: Ladybug Maze or Grouchy Ladybug Wordsearch

• Weekly Scissor Skills Cutting Task: Ladybug Cut & Glue Activity: Color, cut, and glue Ladybug black dots on the ladybug.

• Ladybug Coloring Page(s):Color one or both of the ladybug coloring pages

  • Ladybug Coloring Page

  • L is for ladybug coloring page

• Weekly Writing Prompt: Complete one or more of the writing activities about Ladybugs

  • • • It makes me grouchy when...

      • Ladybug Cut & Glue simple sentence writing

      • Grouchy Ladybug Tracing Words

• OT Friday Fun Fine Motor: Let's Make Fidgets

 

OT Week of May 11-May 15

FLOWERS: Spring is a wonderful time to see and smell flowers all around us!

• Weekly Warm Up: Flower Maze or I Spy Flowers: Visual search and color

• Weekly Scissor Skills Cutting Task: Flower: See How I have grown: Color, cut, and glue petals about how you have grown to make a fun craft!

• Spring Flower Coloring Page(s): Color one or all of the flower coloring pages

• Weekly Writing Prompt: What is your favorite flower and why? Add details such as color, smell, size, shape, etc.

  • • Writing Paper: Choose one of these styles of Paper to complete writing prompt.

      • Flower Writing Paper: 1", 3 Line

      • Flower Writing Paper: 1/2", 3 Line

      • Flower Writing Paper: Standard Single Line

      • Flower Simple Sentence Copying Worksheet

• OT Friday Fun Fine Motor: Let's Move Coins

OT Week of May 4-May 8

Mother's Day is May 10th!

• Weekly Warm Up: Mother's Day Maze or Mother's Day Word Search 

• Weekly Scissor Skills Cutting Task: Mother's Day (I Love you to pieces) card (cut or snip paper to make a Mother's Day card)

• Mother's Day Coloring Page 

• Weekly Writing Prompt: Mother's Day is a special day to celebrate your Mother or another special women in your life (grandma, aunt, friend, etc). Write a card or complete one of the Mother's day activities below:

• I Love my Mom Because... 

• A Poem about my Mom 

• All About My Mom 

• OT Friday Fun Fine Motor: Let's Make a Pinwheel

OT Week of April 27-May 1

• What is May Day?: Here is a link to the Kid's Quest Museum that will give you some background on May Day. 

• Weekly Warm Up: Flower Maze or May Day Word Search 

• Weekly Scissor Skills Cutting Task: May Day Basket Template (Cut out and decorate your own Mayday Basket)

• May Day Coloring Page 

• Weekly Writing Prompt: One of the special things that people do on May Day is drop off flowers on someone's doorstep. If you could give a basket of flowers to anyone, who would it be and why?

• Writing Paper: Choose one of these styles of Paper to complete writing prompt.

• Flower Writing Paper: 1", 3 Line 

• Flower Writing Paper: 1/2", 3 Line 

• Flower Writing Paper: Standard Single Line 

• OT Friday Fun Fine Motor: Use Your Fingers  

OT Week of April 20 - 24