Find and Count the Bees from Brain Workouts

Can you find and count the correct number of bees?  This is a perfect puzzles to get in a brain workout.  Challenge visual discrimination skills, visual motor skills and counting skills with this freebie.

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Brain Workouts Volume 1:  This digital document encourages children to have fun, be active and challenge the brain’s visual perceptual skills. This NO PREP packet includes 30+ mazes, puzzles, physical activities and more! Just print and the activities are ready to go! This download provides a workout for: visual motor skills, visual spatial skills, visual closure skills, visual discrimination skills, physical activity and creativity.  GET MORE INFORMATION.

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Ultimate Visual Motor Challenge

Here is a FREE ultimate visual motor challenge with two difficulty levels.  Can you copy the lines and shapes exactly onto the blank grid? The color version is slightly easier than the black and white version.  The colors are easier to distinguish differences but you must match each color to the correct line and shape as well.

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Summer Olympic Games Freebie Activity

The Summer Olympic Games are only a few weeks away!  This Summer Olympic games freebie activity, Find and Color, is a fun way to encourage visual discrimination and visual motor skills with a Summer Olympic theme.  Find the medal winners and color them the correct color.  This visual perceptual puzzle is just one from the new Summer Olympic Games Packet that is filled with sensory motor and visual perceptual activities and games.  There are 40 Summer Olympic sport cards including:

1. archery
2. badminton
3. basketball
4. boxing
5. canoeing
6. diving
7. equestrian dressage
8. equestrian jumping
9. fencing
10. golding
11. gymnastics male
12. gymnastics female
13. handball
14. judo
15. karate
16. mountain biking
17. road cycling
18. sailing
19. shooting
20. swimming
21. synchronized swimming
22. table tennis
23. tennis
24. track cycling
25. trampoline
26. weightlifting
27. wrestling
28. soccer
29. volleyball
30. running
31. high jump
32. javelin
33. long jumping
34. hurdles
35. discus
36. shotput
37. hammer
38. gold medal
39. silver medal
40. bronze medal

Use the posters and cards in the Summer Olympic Games Packet to encourage literacy, physical activity and just play some fun games!  The packet includes 7 game and activity ideas.  Make watching the Summer Olympics even more fun this year with this download.  FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION about the Summer Olympic Games Packet.

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Superhero Match Up Fine Motor and Memory Activity

Challenge fine motor and memory skills with this Superhero Match Up freebie from the Superhero packet.  Print and laminate the page. Using thumb, index and middle finger create small balls of clay. Flatten each ball between thumb and index finger. Place clay over each circle. Player one removes two pieces of clay. If it is a match, keep the clay. If it is not a match, make the clay into a ball, flatten it and return back over the circles. Continue taking turns. The winner is the player with the largest ball of clay at the end of the game.

Option 2:  Use pennies to cover the circles instead of clay. Keep the pennies if you find a match.

Option 3: Print 2 copies. Cut out all the small squares. Play a memory card game with the mini cards.

Go to the Superhero Packet page and scroll down to download the Superhero Match Up freebie.

 

 

 

Find out more information on the Superhero Packet.

 

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Thanksgiving Visual Perceptual Freebie

This freebie challenges visual perceptual skills with a Thanksgiving theme. Practice visual motor,
visual discrimination, visual spatial, visual closure and overall visual perceptual skills with these printables.  Print off multiple copies for your students and your activities are ready to go for fine motor centers in the classroom, visual motor skill practice, special education classrooms, early finishers and/or handwriting warm ups.

Download the Thanksgiving freebie here http://yourtherapysource.com/vpthanksfreebie.html

Find out more about the complete download of Thanksgiving Visual Perceptual Activities here http://yourtherapysource.com/vpthanks.html

Wax String Activities

Here is a sample of some pages from the Wax String Activity book.  These activities encourage visual perceptual skills, eye hand coordination and kinesthetic learning.  Head on over to YourTherapySource at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/waxsample.html

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6 Free Printables for Valentine's Day

Need some quick activities for Valentines Day?  Check out these 6 freebies.



1.  Follow that Monster:  Visual discrimination and visual motor activity from http://yourtherapysource.com/vpvalentinefree.html

2.  Multisensory Handwriting Activity for Valentine's Day from http://yourtherapysource.com/msvalentinefreebie.html



 

3.  Sample Pages from Valentine's Day Handwriting Activities at  http://yourtherapysource.com/valentinefree.html



 

4.  Conversation Heart Clothes Pins at  http://yourtherapysource.com/freeconversation.html

5.  Love Bug Pencil Critters from http://yourtherapysource.com/fmvalentinefree.html

6.  Valentine's Day Exercises from http://yourtherapysource.com/freevalentinebrainbreak.html

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After all those Valentine's Day treats get the kids moving with Brain Breaks for Valentine's Day.  Find out more at http://yourtherapysource.com/brainbreaksvalentine.html

 

 

 

Follow that Monster Visual Perceptual Activity

Challenge visual discrimination, visual spatial relationships and visual motor skills with this free printable.  Download just in time for Valentine's Day at http://yourtherapysource.com/vpvalentinefree.html

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Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

Here are 6 FREE sample pages from Patterns, Patterns, Patterns  which is a collection of over 50 visual perceptual activities involving patterns. Children will be challenged to draw the patterns and find shapes, numbers or objects in a pattern. The activity pages are in black and
white.

Patterns, Patterns, Patterns stimulates:
visual motor skills
visual perceptual skills
visual closure skills
visual discrimination
spatial relationships
visual memory

Download your free sample pages at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/patternsfree.html

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Holiday Shape Tree Visual Perceptual Activity

Here is a fun, holiday freebie in color or black and white.  You can download the freebie at http://yourtherapysource.com/freeholidayshapetree.html

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Holiday Puzzle on Paper

Here is a holiday puzzle to challenge visual spatial, visual closure and visual motor skills.  You can download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/christmaspuzzle.html

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Whooooo's There? Visual Motor Freebie

Download this visual motor and visual discrimination freebie at http://yourtherapysource.com/freethanksgivingowls2.html

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Thanksgiving Visual Discrimination Freebie - Whooooo Do You See?

Download this freebie to challenge visual discrimination skills at http://yourtherapysource.com/freethanksgivingowls.html

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Farm Animal Detectives - Visual and Sensory Motor Freebie

Print and play this fun visual perceptual and sensory motor activity for children to guess and move like the animal.  Print your free copy at http://www.YourTherapySource.com/freefarmanimals

Practice Grading Pencil Pressure with this Freebie

Students can practice pressing light versus hard to shade the owl pictures.  You can download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/freeshade.html.

3 Pre-Writing Activities Using Craft Sticks

Here are three simple activities using craft sticks to help learn horizontal, vertical and diagonal pre-writing strokes.  Using the craft sticks makes the child associate linear objects with lines and provides a more kinesthetic approach versus just drawing lines.  Find out more information about the activities at http://yourtherapysource.com/freeprewriting.html

Traveling Chalkboards

For awhile now I have been trying to figure out how to make some chalkboard items.  I have tried the chalkboard spray paint which does work well on wood.  I tried it on fabric and cardboard and did not have good results.  The other day I received an email with a daily deal on repositionable chalkboard contact paper.   I figured I would give this a try and it worked perfectly!  I bought a roll of it on ebay for $9 including shipping.  One roll is 18" wide by 6 feet long so it is quite a bit.  The brand was Contact and it was called Chalkboard Roll.  

To read more about the ideas I came up with visit YourTherapySource at http://www.YourTherapySource.com/freechalkboards.

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Free Visual Discrimination Puzzle

Download and print this free puzzle to test your visual discrimination skills.  How many of each smile face can you find?  You can get the freebie at http://yourtherapysource.com/freesmilefaces.html

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5 FREE Printables to Practice Scissor Skills and More

Here are 5 FREE printables to practice scissor skills, visual perceptual skills and motor planning skills:

1.  Step By Step Puppy - cut out the simple shapes and follow the step by step directions.  You can download it here http://yourtherapysource.com/stepsample.html

2.  Cutting Cards - Practice cutting skills on these smaller 3x5" cards.  Download a few sample pages at http://yourtherapysource.com/cuttingcardsfree.html

3.  Speed Match - Cut apart the rectangles or simple shapes to test your visual perceptual skills.  Download the free sample page at http://yourtherapysource.com/speedmatchfreebie.html

4.  Cut and Paste Pig Puzzle - Cut apart the puzzle, mix it up and glue it back together.  Download some additional free sample pages at http://yourtherapysource.com/cutpastefree.html

5.  Shape Stationary - Cut and fold this stationary to send a nice note to a friend or family member.  Practice cutting skills, fine motor skills and handwriting all in one!  Download this freebie at http://yourtherapysource.com/files/cutfoldfreesample.pdf

Check out all of our freebies at http://yourtherapysource.com/freestuff.html

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Vertical Puzzles

Here is a simple way to make vertical puzzles.  By hanging up the puzzles on the wall or in an upright position you encourage an increase in upper extremity active range of motion, wrist extension and can sneak in some gross motor skills (ie squatting and reaching up high).

Find an old poster or use the back of a cereal box.

Cut it into large strips.

Decide if you want to use a pool noodle to create your vertical puzzle or contact paper (reversed on wall so sticky side is facing out).

For the pool noodle version, slice a pool noodle in half lengthwise.  Then cut a strip down the middle of the pool noodle all the way through.  Only cut through the middle of the pool noodle not on either end.  Slip the cardboard in to help hold up the puzzle pieces.  Now you have an easel to put your vertical puzzle back together again.  Slide in each piece of the puzzle.

For the sticky paper version, on a wall hang up the contact paper with the sticky side facing out.  Use painter's tape around edges to hold it up.  Now reassemble your puzzle pieces right on the sticky paper.  Place the sticky paper higher up on the wall and the puzzle pieces on the floor to encourage squatting and reaching tall when reassembling the puzzle.   

Check out Puzzles on Paper.  It includes 40+ puzzles to challenge visual spatial and visual closure skills.  Find out more information at http://yourtherapysource.com/puzzlepaper.html