Hole Punch Free Printable – Hungry Monster

Hole Punch Free Printable – Hungry Monster

With October right around the corner, I thought you might like some fun Halloween activities.  Help the hungry monster eat the correct candy by punching out the holes that match the candy he is eating.  This hole punch free printable (download access at bottom of post) helps children to:

• work on strengthening the muscles in the fingers and hands – closing the hole punch is a hand workout!
• practice visual motor skills – finding the location to hole punch
• practice visual discrimination skills – find the matching candy
• practice bilateral coordination skills – hold the paper with one hand and use the hole punch with the other hand

If you need other hole punch activities, check out Hole Punch Palooza.

Hole Punch Palooza – Download of over 100 hole punch strips – punch out matching letters, shapes, numbers and visual discrimination challenges.  FIND OUT MORE.

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Homemade Play Dough Recipes and Activity Ideas

Pediatric therapists, parents and teachers use homemade play dough recipes daily. Here is a collection of fun ones from the Internet to explore.

1. Recipes for Sensory Fun: This is a nice 5 page download created by a therapy company to hand out to parents.

2. Nuture Store – Let’s Play with Dough – includes three recipes, suggestions to add to your dough play time and learning activities with play dough.  This would make a great parent handout.

3. Gluten Free Dough Recipes: Anyone who works with or has children on a gluten free diet here is lots of suggested products and recipes.

Need some suggestions and activity ideas to use the clay or play dough? Check out:

1. Creative Clay Activities – Includes the following activities: Animal Charade Cards, Food/ Drink Charade Cards, Snowy Clay, Rainy Clay, Steamroller Clay, Snake in the Woods, Clay Patterns, Clay Scavenger Hunt, Four In A Row and 26 Letter Sheets to promote tactile kinesthetic awareness of letters.

2. Clay Play Mats – This is a collection of 6 clay play mats that encourage: muscle strengthening of the hands, fine motor skills, visual memory,
counting and number identification.

3.  Clay Faces – Free download to create clay faces on templates.

4.  Hedgehog Clay game – directions and pictures to play this fun fine motor game.

5.  Copy the Clay Monsters – Copy these clay monster cards to encourage finger and hand strengthening, visual spatial skills and fine motor skills.

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Simple Candy Cane Craft

After seeing this craft from Highlights, I thought it looked like a wonderful visual and fine motor activity.  I created a template so that you can get started right away.  You can download the template at YourTherapySource or http://www.YourTherapySource.com/videocandycane.  Watch the video below.

Clothes Pin Silly Faces

Here are some FREE printables to make these fun clothes pin silly faces.  Print the download from http://yourtherapysource.com/freeclothespinfaces.html .  Add some clothes pins and let the children create their own silly hair.  It would be even more fun if you had some hair extension clips that you could add.  They encourage strengthening of the fingers and hands and eye hand coordination.  Plus, they are just plain cute!

Get the freebie here http://yourtherapysource.com/freeclothespinfaces.html

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10 Activities to Work On Hand Strengthening

Here are 10 activities to give the muscles in the fingers and hands a workout:

1.  Ways to Use Clothes Pins with Craft Sticks from http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freeclothespin

2.  Clothesline Numbers from http://www.yourtherapysource.com/clothespinfree.html

3.  Clay Marble Mazes from http://yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2014/04/14/clay-marble-mazes/

4.  Hole Punch Palooza Sample Page from http://yourtherapysource.com/holepunchpics.html

5.  Hand Strengthening Activities in the Kitchen from http://yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2014/07/16/3-hand-strengthening-activities-in-the-kitchen/

6.  5 Things to Do with Loom Bands from http://yourtherapysource.com/freeloombands.html

7.  Bubble Wrap Story Time Printables from http://yourtherapysource.com/freebubblepop.html

8.  Water Squirt Race at http://yourtherapysource.com/videosquirt.html

9.  Spray Shapes and Patterns at http://yourtherapysource.com/blog1/2012/05/09/spray-shapes-and-patterns/

10.  Hatching Birds Clothespin Activity at http://www.yourtherapysource.com/freehatch.html

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Homemade Painting Tools

Create these homemade painting tools with cardboard, scissors and clothes pins.  Children will practice cutting skills, hand strengthening and visual motor skills with this painting activity.  Watch the video at http://yourtherapysource.com/videopaintingtools.html

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DIY Geo-Chalkboard

Here is an activity that encourage fine motor skills, muscle strengthening and visual perceptual skills.  Watch the video on how to make and use this geochalkboard to review academic material.

Hand Strengthening Activity for Kids

Water Squirt Race