Welcome to Tools to Grow, Inc.'s St. Patrick's Day and Easter Newsletter! We hope that this newsletter provides you with information, tools, and resources to help with the most important job there is... helping children grow!

In this newsletter you will find St. Patrick's Day and Easter themed activities, resources, tips, and Freebies! Read about our St. Patrick's Day Fine Motor activities and Easter Gross Motor Fun! You will also learn all about our newly updated and expanded Visual Perceptual Skills resources!

St. Patrick's Day Maze Missions!

This resource is perfect for those older students on your caseload!

Follow the maze path and complete each mission along the way! This high quality PDF addresses a variety of Visual Perceptual Skills in a fun St. Patrick's Day theme! Includes 3 different Levels of difficulty, with 6 different missions for each level. All your Visual Perceptual skills are addressed in this one of a kind activity!!

You can find these Maze Missions here.

TYPING Riddles

No printing of this resource required! Simply open this 7 PAGE High Quality PDF on your computer! The student reads the question, follows the directions and types the letter or word on the correct line. This is a great way to address typing & keyboarding skills, scanning, and visual memory skills.

You can find this Typing resource here!

FREE! Sensory Coloring Rainbow

Begin by using traditional tools such as crayons or markers to color the pot and gold coins. Child completes writing prompt “If I found a pot of GOLD I would … ” The next step is to “decorate” the rainbow using glue and colored rice. Finally, glue cotton balls to make the clouds.

You can download this FREE Activity here!

St. Patrick's Day Packet!

This is an 18 PAGE PDF that is SHAMROCKing Fun!!!

Includes:
- Roll & Color
- Roll, Add, & Color
- Form Constancy - How Many Shamrocks? - Level 1 & Level 2
- The Dot Game: Instructions, Score Card, Level 1 & Level 2
- Visual Discrimination (Different & Same)
- Matching Fun! Black/White & Color Versions
- Pattern & Cut, Handwriting Level 1 & 2
- Pre-Writing - Level 1 & Level 2

You can find this St. Patrick's Day Packet here.

FREE! Pre-Writing Strokes!

This 5 PAGE PDF includes 2 levels of Pre-Writing Stroke Formation Practice. Follow the instructions to decorate the Easter Eggs!

You can find this FREE Printable here!

Easter Color by Number!

This is a 5 PAGE PDF that includes 4 different Color by Number Versions with an Easter Bunny Theme. HOPPY Easter!!!

Find this Color by Number activity here!

EGG-Tastic Fun!!

This 20 PAGE PDF is sure to be EGG-tastic Fun!!! This Packet is a fun Easter Egg Theme!
Includes:
- Roll & Color
- Roll, Add, & Color
- Form Constancy - How Many Easter Eggs? - Level 1 & Level 2
- The Dot Game: Instructions, Score Card, Level 1 & Level 2
- Visual Discrimination (Different & Same)- Level 1 & 2
- Matching Fun! Black/White & Color Versions
- Pattern & Cut - Level 1 & 2
- Handwriting Level 1 & 2

Find this Activity Packet Here!

Bunny Hop! Gross Motor Game

Easter is almost here and we have a fun gross motor game for you! Bunny Hop! Gross Motor Game helps children improve their gross motor skills, endurance, motor planning skills, direction following, execution of a sequence, number skills, memory, and turn taking abilities.

The purpose of the game is to move from the “Start” to “Finish” point (Bunny Hole) on the game board. The child will first pretend to be a Bunny. Next, the child will pretend to be one of the Forest Friends he/she meets while hopping through the forest. The Bunny will also collect carrots on his journey to the Bunny Hole.

Materials:
- Game Board (included in PDF)
- Carrot Cards (included in PDF)
- Forest Animal Action Cards (Included in PDF)
- Die (one)
- Small game token (one for each child)

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St. Patrick's Day Activities

We are excited to share with you some St. Patrick's Day activities and fine motor fun! These activities are associated with our high quality printable resources. All of these resources can be found here in our Holidays/Seasons/Themes section: St. Patrick's Day.

In this Blog post you will read about:

VISUAL PERCEPTION: Impact on a Child’s Success at School & Home

This blog will focus on different types of visual perception and how a deficit in such may present in a child. These deficits in visual perception may have academic and functional consequences for success at school and home. While visual processing is a complex topic, this blog will highlight information that may be relevant to Occupational Therapists, Educators, and parents as they aim to learn more about how to help children grow!

Visual Perceptual Skill Areas addressed in the blog include:

NEW Teacher/Caregiver Education!!

What to Know & How to Develop Visual Perceptual Skills

The “What to Know & How to Develop Visual Perceptual Skills” Informational Resources target several important areas of visual perception. Use these tools to help educate others on how to help the children in their life improve their function.

These hand outs are designed to be used by parents, teachers, and other caregivers while consulting with an Occupational Therapist or other professional that has explained and is monitoring the use of these strategies.

NEW Checklists!!!

Visual Perceptual Skills: Preschool - School Aged

Tools to Grow is excited to expand our Skills Checklists. This Visual Perceptual Skills Checklist is a 7 Page PDF that is divided into three sections. Preschool - 1st Grade, 2nd Grade - 3rd Grade, and 4th Grade - 6th Grade. This is a great resource for school based therapists.

Let’s enjoy the pleasure of some St. Patrick's Day and Easter fun
while giving our children the Tools To Grow!

Patti & Shelley