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Welcome to Therapy Fun Zone.
Occupational and Physical Therapy should be fun for both the client and the therapist. We have to be creative and we are always thinking up new ideas to make it interesting and make our clients want to keep working. We also love to share our creativity and collaborate with each other. Here at Therapy Fun Zone, we would like to share activity ideas, and encourage you to share yours in order to keep the creativity stimulated. Sign up for our email which will include therapy activities, and other things that we think may be of interest. We are adding new activities and references frequently.
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Clothespin and Tongs Activities
Update to Clothespin Games
I have worked out an even easier way (in my opinion) to make the game boards, and you can have me make them now if you want. I have it down to a science, and it doesn’t take me very long with this new technique. I hot glue strips of the coroplast material onto a… [Continue Reading]
Big Mouth Creature with clothespin to open the mouth
I saw these Big Mouth Critters on a blog called Whimsical Publishing, and thought that they were so cute, and that it would be a great activity for some of my students to do. Some kids need the challenge of following the folding directions and trying to make the creature themselves, but others have trouble… [Continue Reading]
Recent posts
Tying Ribbon to Make a Spring Tree
I loved the activity that I did where the kids had to tie ribbon onto a stick to make a tree. The activity turned out beautiful, and it really targeted the tying skill, which is usually a pretty difficult skill to attain. Since then, I have been thinking about other activities that would target tying,… [Continue Reading]
Motor Control With Magnet Paths
A fun activity that we did at a Zaner Bloser workshop that I went to while at the OTAC spring fling, were these pages with paths on them. You place a metal piece on the path (I used a metal nut) with a magnet underneath. Then you move the magnet to make your piece follow… [Continue Reading]
App review: Ready to Print
I got a chance to try out the app Ready to Print over the weekend. This app just recently came out, and I have wanted to try it out, but sadly, I do not own an iPad. I hope to remedy that fact as soon as I have some money saved up for it, but… [Continue Reading]
Writing Charms re-visited
I have been using my writing charms to get kids to work on stabilizing their hand when writing, and I wanted them to hold something a bit bigger than the cap erasers that I had on the original writing charms. I came across this cool stretchy string, and attached it to a squishy toy ,… [Continue Reading]
Angry Birds Toss Game
Throwing bean bags into a container is great for visual motor control, and even better when you have to aim at a specific target, such as toss across or similar game. I ran across these angry birds dog toys at walmart, and they are the perfect size for throwing at a target. I made a… [Continue Reading]
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