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Welcome to Tools to Grow, Inc.'s Summer Newsletter! We are so excited that you signed up to receive our newsletters and hope that they provide you wit
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Ocean Themed Scissor Skills
These high-quality PDF Ocean Themed Scissor Skills Packets are a great way to practice scissor skills!
These are excellent resources to help a child advance through the developmental sequence of scissor use. Cutting with scissors involves the skill of hand separation, fine motor coordination, bilateral coordination, and eye-hand coordination.
Find these Scissor Skill Resources Here! |
Summer Animal Walks!!!
Fun Motor Planning Game! This PDF packet includes instructions and Game Board. Simply print and Create a spinner by using a paperclip. Flick the spinner and complete the animal walk action that you land on. Fun & exciting way to address motor planning and praxis skills with a Summer Twist! Print visual "Summer Animal Walks" cards to accompany this game.
Find more Animal Walk Games Here! |
Goldfish Bubbles Using Eye Droppers!
Children are very intrigued and motivated to use eyedroppers! Not only are they fun, their use promotes so much more!
Read more about the benefits of using Eyedroppers and find resource here! |
1st Anniversary Promo Code!!!
June 16th is Tools to Grow's 1st Year Anniversary!!! We are so excited to celebrate our first year with you! We are truly SO THANKFUL to each and every member!!!
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Summer is fast approaching and most children will be on an extended break from school. While every child deserves a break from the rigor of school, summer vacation offers exceptional opportunities for children to learn and develop outside the structure of formal school.
Tools to Grow is pleased to offer a FREE Activity-a-Day Summer Calendar with over 100 activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories! |
Despite recommendations from therapists for children to participate in daily outdoor play, some children may continue to miss out on the sensory and motor experiences such play delivers. Outdoor play offers sights, sounds, textures, smells, and movement opportunities that are important for healthy development. The decline in time spent outdoors has been attributed to many reasons including the following: busy parents with less time to supervise outdoor play, unsafe neighborhoods for outdoor play, or personal habits that include prolonged viewing of television and/or video games.
We have had excellent results with our resource known as Sensory Coloring. Using the summer themed coloring picture sheets, the child will begin by using traditional tools such as crayons to color as much or as little of the sheet as he or she wishes. The next step is to “decorate” the picture using glue and medium that offers tactile and olfactory experiences.
Read More about Sensory Coloring Here!! |
Summer is almost here and we have a fun Sandpaper Starfish Activity and Sandpaper Castle Craftivity that your students and children will LOVE!!
Sandpaper is a great material that provides tactile input to help with tactile discrimination (learning smooth versus rough), tactile hyper-sensitivity (for children that avoid certain textures), and tactile hypo-sensitivity (for children that respond well to extra tactile feedback). The thicker sandpaper is great for adding extra control when using scissors!
Read more about Sandpaper Activities here!! |
These informal assessment checklists provide a valuable record for documenting a child’s progress in a variety of performance areas. These resources will help a therapist verify and compare a child’s development in functional areas. Use these over and over when standardized testing is not indicated or suitable. |
Occupational Therapy Skills Checklist
Includes the following categories: Prehension, Manipulation, Dominance, Scissor Use, Color, Classroom Tools, Bilateral Skills, Draw, Learning Concepts, Handwriting, Self-Help, Visual Perceptual, Sensory Processing, and Posture/Gross Motor.
Find Checklists here! |
Early Intervention Skills Checklist
Quick screen to assess developmental status of self help skills. Organized into Sub-Sections, which Include: Self-Dressing Skills, Feeding Skills, Toileting Skills, and Personal Hygiene/Grooming Skills. Organized into age ranges 12-18 months, 18-24 months, 24-30 months, 30-36 months, 3-4
Find Checklists here! |
We hope this Summer Newsletter helps make your summer a SPLASH!!!
Have a Safe and Fun-Filled Summer!!
Patti & Shelley
Tools to Grow, Inc. |
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