Color Cut Glue Scissor Practice for Fall

Color Cut Glue Scissor Practice for Fall

Fall is certainly in the air here.  The apples are starting to get picked, a few leaves are falling and pumpkins will be right around the corner. Here are three black and white activity pages to practice coloring, cutting out simple shapes, planning out where to glue the pieces (the trickiest part) and then paste the shapes together to create the Fall themed pictures: apple tree, pumpkin, and apple.  Just print and it is all set to go.

This activity encourages:

• scissor skills practice
• eye hand coordination
• bilateral coordination
• motor planning
• sequencing

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Looking for more scissor activities? Here is a Scissors Bundle from Your Therapy Source.

If you need more specific information on the development of scissor skills, check out The Scissor Skills Book. This digital download is a huge resource for anyone who works on scissor skills with children. Written by the Functional Skills for Kids (FSFK) team of 10 pediatric physical and occupational therapists with years of experience in the field, The Scissor Skills Book is the ultimate resource for tips, strategies, suggestions, and information to support scissor skill development in children.

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8 Free Fall Themed Fine, Gross and Visual Motor Activities

Here are 8 free printables for fine motor, gross motor and visual perceptual activities with a Fall theme.

1.  Leaf Animals – Print and create some leaf animals to practice fine motor skills.  Download here  http://www.yourtherapysource.com/fmfallfree.html
2. Pumpkin Patch Fine Motor Game – download here http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freepumpkinpatch.html
3. Handwriting Hunt for Autumn – getting moving and writing with this activity.  Download here http://yourtherapysource.com/hwhuntsfallfree.html
4. Fall Handwriting Practice – Download the Free Fall Handwriting Practice pages –
   double line and dotted line styles – http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freefallhw.html
5. Falling Leaves– practice fine motor, gross motor, balance and coordination skills with this activity.  Download here http://www.yourtherapysource.com/fallingleaves.html
6. Fall Handwriting Words, Lined Paper and Football Visual Motor Task – download here http://www.yourtherapysource.com/files/Fall_free_sample.pdf
7. Pumpkin Multisensory Handwriting Page – download here http://www.yourtherapysource.com/msfallfree.html
8. Raking Maze to practice visual motor, visual spatial and motor planning skills.  Download here http://www.yourtherapysource.com/vpfallfreebie.html

Motor Planning, Physical Activity and Coordination Activity for Fall

Here is a Fall or Halloween activity to encourage eye hand coordination, bilateral coordination, motor planning and gross motor skills in children.

1.  Create the bat, spider and ghost.  For the bat and spider we used half a recycled toilet paper roll, duct tape, google eyes and glued on some wings or 8 legs.  The ghost was just a tissue inside a tissue using a pipe cleaner to secure one issue as the head and loop it around so the ghost can hang.  See the picture above.

2.  The child can lace the bat, spider and ghost onto a rope or yarn.  Now get ready to play and explore.

3.  I hung up the rope high on one end and wanted the child to problem solve how to get them down.  First she tried pushing a chair over and climbing on it but it was still too high.  She landed up shaking the rope and they slid down.  She repeated this process several times moving the bat, ghost and spider along the rope.  

4.  We created an obstacle course for the bat, spider and ghost.  I put the rope under a bench and through the chair.  The child had to motor plan and coordinate how to get each object through the obstacle course.  There was lots of bending, reaching and bilateral coordination needed to complete the course.  

5.  Then she started to move herself along the rope.  She tried riding on a wheeled toy (you could also use a scooter board) and pulled with both hands along the rope while I held the one end firmly.  She also ran along the rope moving the spider as fast as she could.

6.  Finally, we folded the rope in half and put the spider on the rope.  She held one piece of the rope in each hand and I held the folded side of the rope.  She would open her arms wide to get the spider to move along the rope web.  

This was an inexpensive therapeutic activity that included so many stages of child development.  It was helpful to start the activity off for the child to problem solve because it increased her interest in the activity rather than me telling her climb on the chair and see if you can move the bat.  She was proud of herself when she figured out how to finally get them down.  This then led to her exploring moving along the rope herself with different physical actions.

Need more inexpensive activities?  Try $ensory Motor Fun on a Budget at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/budget.html

Flower Fine Motor Activity

Flower Fine Motor Activity for Fall

Here is a fun flower activity for Fall. Write the child's name, a shape or a pattern. Pick some Fall flowers. We used mums. Have the child squeeze some glue onto the first letter and spread it around. Use scissors to cut the petals or pull the petals off with the fingertips.  Scatter the petals on the glue.  

When you pull off the flower petals it smells amazing. Instead of giving the child a shape, have the child squeeze the glue anywhere on the paper to create any designs that he/she wishes. 

This activity encourages

1. Fine motor skills

2. Finger strengthening

3. Visual motor skills (placing the petals in the correct location)

4. Cutting practice

Need more activity ideas for Fall?  Check out Print and Create Fine Motor Projects for Fall - http://www.yourtherapysource.com/fmfall.  

Fine Motor Game to Print for Fall

Here is a fine motor game to print and play with a Halloween/Fall theme. You can download it at Your Therapy Source.