A thumb wrap grasp can look awkward and lead to slow handwriting. But is it functional? Here's what you need to know.| The OT Toolbox
Make frozen play dough using this candy play dough recipe...or any dough...to strengthen the hands with a resistive dough.| The OT Toolbox
These organization handouts are a powerful tool to add to your therapy toolbox to help with teaching organization strategies.| The OT Toolbox
This activity is a craft and activity to teach positive self talk for kids. Kids can wear the bracelet and recall self-talk strategies.| The OT Toolbox
These executive functioning resources support kids and teens with cognitive skills needed for learning and every day tasks.| The OT Toolbox
These separation anxiety activities are great tools for preschool or kindergarten separation anxiety. Occupational therapy approved!| The OT Toolbox
These self care strategies for therapists can help with burnout or to address current needs with working from home while addressing emotional care.| The OT Toolbox
The school based-Occupational Therapist is getting ready to head back into the school year this Fall. Getting organized can be one of the hardest parts of school-based OT. These tips and tricks are some that I’ve used during my years as an Occupational Therapist working in the schools. Getting Organized for Back-to-School as a ... Read more| The OT Toolbox
Tips to help sensory issues with hair brushing, eliminate nightmares of brushing hair, find great resources| The OT Toolbox
Calm down corner, providing strategies, resources, and information on vestibular and proprioceptive systems to help self regulation| The OT Toolbox
This article covers visual impairment and how occupational therapy can help to support life skills and functional independence.| The OT Toolbox
This feelings check in activity is a hands-on way to support emotional regulation in children, while learning about feelings and empathy.| The OT Toolbox
This is a play dough city themed playdough mat to help kids strengthen fine motor skills and coordination.| The OT Toolbox
This explains self monitoring strategies as well as self-monitoring examples to help kids with learning and function. Includes free handouts.| The OT Toolbox
These space activities for kids are great for a DIY summer camp or an occupational therapy home program. Use the space theme for building skills.| The OT Toolbox
Use these social emotional learning activities to help children develop positive relationships, behaving ethically, and handle challenging situations.| The OT Toolbox
This resource defines affect modulation and offers strategies and tips to target expressive feelings and social emotional development.| The OT Toolbox
These attention activities cover various types of attention: divided attention, sustained attention, selective attention and more.| The OT Toolbox
This cute penguin worksheet is a penguin deep breathing exercise that kids can use as a coping tool or a self-regulation strategy.| The OT Toolbox
Ahhh…taking a deep breath with mindful breathing is such an easy way to add coping skills to a child’s repertoire of sensory diet activities. Deep breathing as part of mindfulness adds a moment of whole-body relief. With all that is going on in the world with the impact of COVID-19, children and families can feel ... Read more| The OT Toolbox
This ice cream play dough mat is a free printable for kids to work on fine motor strength with an ice cream theme.| The OT Toolbox
Motoric hand separation refers to the motor dexterity needed to separate the two sides of the hand in fine motor tasks. Use these activities.| The OT Toolbox
These pinch exercises are prehension activities to build strength and endurance in lateral pinch, tip-to-tip grasp, and other pinch patterns.| The OT Toolbox
Fine motor activities can help improve your child's grasp and pinch strength, coordination, and hand strength. This article shares open thumb web space activities.| The OT Toolbox
Help kids develop social emotional skills with this free printable social emotional learning worksheet that kids can use in emotional growth.| The OT Toolbox
These are the cutest play dough flowers using paper clips and paper flowers. And, it's a great fine motor activity for kids!| The OT Toolbox
Help children with social emotional development using book activities to make abstract concepts of empathy, awareness, and emotions more concrete.| The OT Toolbox
This Ice Cream Writing activity works on handwriting skills with a fun ice cream theme. Also spell ice cream words with sign language!| The OT Toolbox
Work on letter formation and writing the alphabet with kids based on child development. Includes the best order to teach letters.| The OT Toolbox
Use these paper clip activities and games with paper clips to help kids with precision, dexterity, in-hand manipulation, and more!| The OT Toolbox
These Zones of Regulation activities and strategies are beneficial to kids struggling with self-regulation and emotional control through coping strategies.| The OT Toolbox
Understanding sensory dysregulation is key to getting a handle on all things sensory processing and meltdowns. Use these tips and supports.| The OT Toolbox
The limbic system plays an essential role in function, including behavioral response, emotional regulation, play, learning, and social skills.| The OT Toolbox
These social skills activities are social skill interventions that help kids develop self awareness and awareness of others, empathy, kindness, and more.| The OT Toolbox
This massive sensory processing disorder checklist breaks down sensory behaviors as over-reactions or under-reactions to sensory input.| The OT Toolbox
Relaxation breathing is a powerful calming tool for self-regulation and coping. Try these 3 effective relaxation breath strategies.| The OT Toolbox
These empathy activities for kids foster empathy as a social emotional skill in children. Use the empathy beads to build this skill.| The OT Toolbox
Mindfulness in kids and the whole family is so important for self regulation, emotions, behaviors, and health. Here are mindfulness tools!| The OT Toolbox
Emotional regulation and executive function are connected in more ways than one. Emotions, self-awareness and self-monitoring skills impact function.| The OT Toolbox
Use these brain breaks, or movement breaks, as a mental shifts using input from the proprioceptive, vestibular, and visual systems.| The OT Toolbox
You can learn with board games you already have in your home game closet. Or use games at school and in OT sessions for learning and skill development.| The OT Toolbox
School based occupational therapy providers support students in learning and participating in the classroom. Here are school based OT tips.| The OT Toolbox
Use these sensory coping strategies for kids to help children regulate through sensory strategies. These sensory skills can be used to cope anywhere!| The OT Toolbox
Symptoms of too much screen time can look like many things in children and teenagers. Lack of focus, moodiness, behaviors, frustration and more.| The OT Toolbox