With Easter and Passover behind us, some of us are swimming in Easter Eggs and Matzoh.  Have no fear, here are a few fun and easy suggestions to keep these holiday favorites working for us for weeks to come!

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.

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!