Easter Egg Spelling:
Not only is your child practicing academic skills, he or she is working on
developing intrinsic hand strength necessary for a mature writing grasp and
opening containers and bilateral coordination (using the two sides of the body
in a coordinated manner).
Wobbly Easter EggSpoon Balancing: This is a fun and easy way to build your child’s shoulder
stability, upper body endurance and overall force grading and body awareness.
Build with EasterEggs: What a creative way to work on hand strength and coordination, bilateral
coordination, visual perceptual skills, frustration tolerance, and
constructional praxis (ability to build designs)!
Easter Egg Matchingwith Pictures: This no fuss activity encourages bilateral coordination,
hand strength, and visual perceptual skills such as visual discrimination and
visual spatial awareness
Easter Egg Sound Match: Your child will work on pincer grasp,
tactile discrimination and basic grasp and release when they help fill the
eggs. By working on sound matching, he
or she is building upon their auditory processing skills!
Easter Egg Toss: Recycling genius at it’s best! This is a great game to work on ball skills,
eye-hand coordination, depth perception and force grading.
{Photo credit: Martha Stewart}
Let’s Build a Matzoh House: Just like those famous Gingerbread
Houses, children can use matzoh and other ingredients to build the house of their
unleavened dreams! This activity
requires a great deal of fine motor control, bilateral coordination, motor
planning and sequencing skills, frustration tolerance, and visual perceptual
skills.
Matzoh Tangrams: Take those broken pieces of matzoh out of the
box and turn them into a puzzle. What
can your child create with the pieces?
Will they look like a truck, animal, simple shape? Can your child break the pieces up to fill in
an outline of their favorite play character?
This is a great way to work on visual perceptual skills such as visual
closure, visual spatial relations, and visual discrimination! Just have a broom
or vacuum ready ;)
Please feel free to ask us any questions and please share any ideas you try-- enjoy!
