Fun Learning Activities:
Support Your Child's Development!
OT Mom Learning Activities helps support your child’s development with simple, practical activities and exercises you can do at home. As a pediatric occupational therapist and homeschool mom, I provide guidance and easy-to-follow activities that build essential fine motor, gross motor, and visual perception skills – and much more! These skills will help your child get the best possible start in school.
All children need to develop the skills needed for handwriting, reading, following instructions and other school tasks. But the tech-driven world we live in can affect opportunities for development.
My aim is to show you can work on these important skills at home with simple hands-on learning activities!
My website is free and accessible, and contains hundreds of photographed activities, helpful information and seasoned tips to help you to help your child.
- Where does YOUR child need support?
- Currently trending pages on my site
- Tips for doing these learning activities at home
- Printable resources for busy parents and teachers
- Testimonials from visitors worldwide!
This website is NOT a substitute for occupational therapy - please consult your health professional if you are at all concerned about your child's development!
Where Does YOUR Child Need Support?
View free, photographed hands-on activities to inspire you, right now, on these pages of my website! No lists or worksheets!
Fine Motor Skills
Activities and exercises to improve hand strength and dexterity and get those fingers moving for better pencil control.
Get helpful information on fine motor development, scissor cutting and wrist positioning as well!
Gross Motor Skills
Help your child develop core strength, shoulder girdle strength, and coordination skills with games and exercises you can do at home!
Get helpful info on midline crossing, muscle tone and more!
Visual Perception Skills
From visual discrimination to figure-ground perception, from visual closure to visual memory, there are lots of visual perception skills that kids need for learning.
Visual motor integration is important for handwriting, and I cover that, too.
Sensory Processing
Sensory processing disorder can affect children in different ways.
Parents and teachers can find information, tips and activities to help the children in their care, as well as links to helpful books and products that I recommend.
Handwriting
Handwriting is an important skill for kids to master. In this section, you will find tips to help kids develop the skills they need in preschool and kindergarten, as well as ideas to help older kids.
Find out what affects handwriting and how to help your child!
For more topics and activities, browse my menu or nav bar. Have fun with your child!
Currently Trending Pages!
These are some of the most popular articles on my website - pop on over to see how they can help YOUR child!
Tips For Doing These Learning Activities At Home
Here are some tips for getting the most out of the activities on my site:
- If your child struggles with an activity, then try and make it easier, or simply drop it and try something different. Come back to the original activity in a week or two. The variety of activities on my site should provide you with different ways of working on the same skills.
- Give lots of encouragement and praise good attempts, even if they are not perfect. “You almost did it, well done!” “That was much better!” “Today is even better than yesterday!” “That was a good try!”
- Check your child's positioning and posture and encourage them to do activities in a controlled way, not in a sloppy way.
- Who has a good relationship with your child? Sometimes we parents can get stressed over how well our child is doing, and we have less patience than we ought to.
Perhaps a grandparent, sympathetic teenage relative or friend would be able to spend a regular 10 minutes doing some of these focused learning activities with your child?
Printable Resources for Busy Parents!
To help busy parents and teachers, I have created affordable e-books that can be downloaded in PDF format and accessed whenever you need them. These make it so much easier to find activities that suit your daily needs, whenever you need them.
My e-books contain many exclusive activities not available on my website - all of them are photographed and have instructions so you know exactly what your child needs to do in order to target specific skills!
The Gross Motor and Fine Motor E-Books also provide guidelines and planners to help choose and structure activities according to your child’s ability.
In addition, I have partnered with Your Therapy Source to highlight their brilliant visual perception resources that you can use over and over again.
Please Note: Doing the
activities on this site is not a substitute for an evaluation and
intervention by a qualified occupational therapist! Please seek a professional opinion if you are at all concerned about your child's progress.
- Please read my article on Occupational Therapy vs "Therapy" Activities At Home to understand why this website is not a substitute for therapy/
- Some parents also ask why their child may need to do extra activities in the first place, if they have been referred to my website by a teacher. Read this article to understand more.
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Testimonials From Visitors Worldwide!
Petra (from Czech Republic)
Hi there! Just wanted to say that this website is the best I've ever seen in its field! I am an Early Years teacher in Prague and as much as I understand the importance of developing fine motor skills, and after studying so much about Early Years, I never knew so much about it until I read this web! It is helpful and an eye opening website! I have learnt so much from it and pass the info about this web to my colleagues as well! THANK YOU so much for finding time to create it! LOVE IT!
Bridget C. (from Australia)
Just wanted to thank you for this wonderful site! My son who is 4 years old is really struggling with his fine motor co-ordination. He started kindergarten this year, and I have been really worried about him. As his mother, I felt very overwhelmed by the feeling that the responsibility to help him fell completely on my shoulders, and I started to panic a little! I hopped onto Google for some help and inspiration and came across your website.
It is just amazing! I have bought all your e-books and I am so excited to start implementing the ideas and feeling like I am giving my son the help he needs.
Shelley F. (from Canada)
Your website is so beautifully put together with lots of detailed, in depth info presented in such a parent friendly way. The photos of all the activities and positions sets it apart from many other parent manuals I've seen. The website is easy to navigate and I love the way you can easily move from one area to another. I will definitely be passing your great resource on to the parents and teachers I work with as well as my colleagues.
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