SPRING/SUMMER MOTOR ACTIVITIES

PLAYING WITH BUBBLES

•  Pop them with different body parts. Try your toes, your elbow, and your nose! Use hand-over-hand assistance to help your child when needed.

• Encourage communication by having your child request more bubbles…use words, sign “more”, or if your child uses a switch and you have one, program it to say “I want more bubbles”.

•  Blow lots of bubbles in one area (to your child’s right, to the left, above, or down toward the ground). Encourage your child to turn their body or head and visually track the bubbles.

• Try to catch bubbles! Put a sock over your hand and try to catch a bubble that you blow without popping it. (The sock will help keep the bubble from popping.) Use hand-over-hand assistance to help your child when needed.

• When the bubbles are gone, the container spills, or you have closed the lid tightly, have your child try to grasp and hold the container.

SIDEWALK CHALK

• Rub the chalk across the sidewalk. 

  • Feel the difference between the sidewalk and the grass. 

  • Feel the difference in the sidewalk where it is colored. 

  • Feel how the chalk changes shape when you use it.

• Instead of a sidewalk, use the chalk on paper. 

  • Keep your coloring on the page and not the table.

  • Have children imitate scribbling in the same direction as you…side-to-side, up-and-down,   or round-and-round…adding sound effects makes it more fun.

  • Draw a shape and add details to create a picture, for example turn a circle into a face, a square into a house, or a triangle into an ice cream cone

  • Put different textures under the paper while coloring/drawing with chalk. (sandpaper, cardstock, bubblewrap, glitter paper)

• Move by crawling, scooting, or propelling a wheelchair

  • • Draw a line and try to move along it… try movining forward, backwards, (and maybe sideways)

    • Draw a circle just big enough to sit inside…try sitting in the circle, turning around, putting just your hands in the circle or putting just your feet in the circle

    • Draw several squares, circles, and/or triangles in several different colors …call out a shape or color and have your child move to that shape.

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