Winter-Themed Fine Motor/Cutting Activities

Cutting activities featuring winter animals. Created by Jan McCleskey MA OTR.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Winter-Themed-Crazy-Scissors-Labs-for-Center-Time-991290

Winter-Themed Fine Motor/Pencil Writing Activities

Writing and tracing activities featuring winter animals. Created by Jan McCleskey MA OTR.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Winter-Themed-Crazy-Pencil-Labs-for-Center-Time-991314

Fun OT Idea for Hand Strength

Strengthen hands by squeezing a tennis ball with a slit in it... and "feeding" the mouse, or alien, or any creature you'd like to make. I've had several students who had so much fun with this idea, and I didn't even decorate the tennis ball. We just pretended we were feeding a "monster" and I made munching sounds each time they "fed" the ball by putting poker chips into the slit.

Here's a picture of the decorated tennis ball:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/370280400582646253/

Cutting and Tracing Sheets

Cutting and tracing activities for fine motor skill development. From PositivelyAutism.com.

http://www.positivelyautism.com/free/finemotor_tracing.html

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Fine Motor Skill Activities

I've been looking for fine motor skill activities for one of my students this week, and came across a great list:

http://autismacitivties.blogspot.com/2007/05/activities-with-fine-motor.html

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Clothespin Dinosaur

A great craft idea from "No Time for Flash Cards." Could be used as a motivating fine motor skill activity for children with a special interest in dinosaurs.

http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2009/02/we-dig-dinosaurs.html

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