Color Cut Glue Halloween – Practice Scissor Skills

Color Cut Glue Halloween – Practice Scissor Skills

Everyone seems to LOVE these simple color, cut and glue pages with the different themes.  I have received emails from customers thanking us for these great freebies and that the kids enjoy completing the projects.  These color, cut and glue black and white activity pages are perfect to work on coloring, scissor skills, and sequencing.

If you need more simple scissor projects, check out these two products:

Hair Cutting Sticks – Hair Cutting Sticks are simple cutting projects so children can have fun while practicing scissor skills!  This download includes 35 “hair cutting” sticks to create (4-6 hair cutting image per page).  Just print out the black and white pages, color and style the hair using scissors.  Toss on a craft stick and create a puppet show too!

Step by Step Circle Animals –  This digital download includes 12 projects to practice coloring, cutting and pasting skills.  Each project page is in black and white.  The animals are created from one large circle and other curved shapes.  This is a great, NO PREP, activity to practice step by step skills and scissor skills.  The Step By Step Circle Animal Projects includes the following animals: fox, pig, hedgehog, zebra, bird, goat, chick, bull, snake, whale, ladybug and tiger.

If you need more Halloween activities, the Halloween Bundle has everything you will need to practice fine motor, gross motor and visual perceptual skills for the month of October.

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Halloween Bat Dice Drawing

Halloween Bat Dice Drawing

Here is a simple game that requires paper, pencil and one die.  Player one rolls a die. To start your drawing you must roll a #1. When you roll the #1, you can draw the first item. Next player rolls and again must roll a #1 to start. If you do not roll a #1 your turn is over. Continue taking turns but now each time you roll you can draw the corresponding picture with the number. Once you roll the numbers 2-6 your drawing will be complete. The first player to complete the drawing is the winner!  For this dice drawing game, the children can practice drawing a Halloween bat.   This freebie is from the Halloween Sensory Motor Packet.

For more Halloween activities, check out the Halloween Sensory Motor Packet or the Halloween Bundle!

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE HALLOWEEN BAT DICE DRAWING

For more dice activities, check out Dice Drawing. It is a fun way to practice drawing simple pictures.    The download includes 20 dice drawing game pages: 15 simple animals and 5 faces.  This document is in black and white.This download encourages fine motor skills, visual motor skills, and visual perceptual skills. The activities are reproducible to use over and over again with all the children that you teach.  Check out Roll Some Fun Brain Breaks:  Download of 12 print and play games that encourage visual motor and sensory motor skills.

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16 FREE Halloween Printables – Sensory Motor Skills

Need some last minute Halloween activities to encourage sensory motor skill development?  Here are 16 free printable activities:

 

1.  4 Pages from Halloween Handwriting Activities at http://ift.tt/2eYeTCt

2.  Halloween Clothes Pin Mat at http://ift.tt/2eY8c3w

3.  Pumpkin Patch Fine Motor Game at   http://ift.tt/2eY8aIW

4.  Jack O Lantern Challenge Maze at http://ift.tt/2eY8ck2

5.  Copy the Clay Monsters at http://ift.tt/2eY9yuW

6.  Halloween Handwriting Hunt at http://ift.tt/2eSkmYG

7.  Halloween Door Hanger at http://ift.tt/2eY9Amy

8.  Halloween Mummy Pose at http://ift.tt/2eShzyv

9.  Halloween Group Game Lesson Plan at http://ift.tt/2eSn40v

10.  Monster Mazes Free Pages at http://ift.tt/2eSkw2n

11.  Frankly…I Love Exercise at http://ift.tt/2eSkeIF

12.  Halloween Mini Book at http://ift.tt/2eSlCLm

13.  Halloween Handwriting Practice Freebie Pages at http://ift.tt/2eSh7k9

14.  Halloween Multisensory Handwriting Practice Page – Treat at http://ift.tt/2eY9AD4

15.  Find and Draw Halloween at http://ift.tt/2eSkEia

16.  Pumpkin Workout at http://ift.tt/2eSlz2b

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Halloween Handwriting Practice Freebie

This Halloween handwriting practice freebie includes two free sample pages from the My Halloween Handwriting Packet.  Practice handwriting on dotted line page and cursive with these 2 pages with a Halloween theme.

DOWNLOAD the two free Halloween handwriting pages here.

These free Halloween handwriting sample pages are from My School Handwriting Packet.

My Halloween Handwriting Packet download includes 5 different font styles of an 8 page Halloween themed handwriting practice booklet. Research indicates that to improve handwriting, practice sessions are necessary (Hoy, 2011). This copy booklet is easy to encourage handwriting practice. The five types of font/layout include: 1. Dotted line Zaner-Bloser® type font, 2. Dotted line Zaner-Bloser® type font with highlighted lines 3. Double line Handwriting Without Tears® type font, 4. New South Wales (NSW) Foundation Manuscript and 5. Cursive font.

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12 Printable Halloween Freebies

Need some last minute Halloween activities?  Here are 12 free printable activities:

1.  4 Pages from Halloween Handwriting Activities at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/files/Halloween_free_sample.pdf

2.  Halloween Clothes Pin Mat at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freehalloweenmat.html

3.  Pumpkin Patch Fine Motor Game at   http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freepumpkinpatch.html

4.  Jack O Lantern Challenge Maze at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freejackolanternmaze.html

5.  Copy the Clay Monsters at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeclaymonster.html

6.  Halloween Handwriting Hunt at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/hwhuntshalloweenfree.html

7.  Halloween Door Hanger at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/fmhalloweenfree.html

8.  Halloween Mummy Pose at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/halloweenposesfree.html

9.  Halloween Group Game Lesson Plan at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freehalloweengame.html

And one more I forgot to add in the picture above - Monster Mazes Free Pages at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/monsterfree.html

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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

Jack-O-Lantern Challenge Maze

Try this Jack-O-Lantern challenge maze.  Draw a line through the matching pumpkin from start to finish.  This activity encourages visual motor and higher level visual discrimination skills.  You can download it for free at
http://yourtherapysource.com/freejackolanternmaze.html

Halloween Clothes Pin Activity

Download this Halloween mat to match up clothes pin or to practice visual motor skills.
You can download the activity at YourTherapySource.com.

Costumes May Do The Trick

Children love to dress up from an early age. Boys or girls enjoy the fun of pretending to be someone else. Pediatric therapists are always looking for innovative and creative ways to incorporate movement tasks into everyday play. Since Halloween is coming upon us, perhaps dressing up will do the trick. Here are several reasons why to include dressing up into a therapy session or suggestion for an at home activity.

1. Functional Tasks: Of course, an occupational therapist looks at dressing as a very functional task. Children will be motivated to practice buttoning, zippers or other fasteners in order to get the costume on. They have to put arms into sleeves and legs into pants. This is much more fun that getting dressed in the morning.

2. Fine Motor Skill Practice: In order to fasten the clothes, children need to use their fingers and hands.

3. Balance skills: When a child is stepping into a costume, they must balance on one foot to get the other foot in.

4. Imagination and Free Play: In today's fast paced society, children do not have extensive amounts of free time to just play. When a child puts on a costume it opens up a entire new world of their imagination.

5. Gross Motor Skills: Once that costume is on, a child can not resist to leap over tall buildings, gallop on a horse, be in a circus, fly on a broom...
The list goes on and on. Children will rarely sit still while in costume.

So the next time you want a child to practice fine motor skills, balance and gross motor skills all while doing a functional task - get out a box of dress up clothes or costumes!