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Butterfly Lacing Cards

You Will Need From Your Kit: Butterfly cut out hole puncher Ribbon (make sure to cut 10 inches for the door hanger activity in your kit) Stickers You can purchase this activity as a part of MissMancy’s Summer Days Kit Step 1: Use hole puncher to make holes over each dot on the butterfly Step 2:

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Summer Bug Bead

You will Need From Your Kit: Pipe cleaners body and head Beads Wing drawings on thick stock paper You can purchase this activity as a part of MissMancy’s Summer Days Kit The Activity: This is a great activity you can do with little ones to teach beading skills. Many little ones have a hard time beading

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CUTTING | Everything you need to know!

1. Begin with good scissors. i.e the blade is not too long, scissors are easy to open. Use Left-handed scissors for left- handed children (the blade opens up on the opposite side). Personally I like Fiskars with the round thumb opening and oval (wider) opening for other fingers. 2. Position fingers correctly. This means make

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10 Ways to Use Blue Painter’s Tape

1- Tic tac toe: I’m a huge fan of tic tac toe. It’s a great motor planning/problem solving game. You can use bean bags or 2 different colored items to play.   2-Sticky Spider Web: I saw this on handsonaswegrow.com and thought it was such a great idea! I adapted it to meet OT goals.

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10 Great Ways to Use Wax Strings

Here are 10 Great Ways that I like to use Wikki Stix 1-Place it around the top end of crayons to give children a visual and tactile cue as to where to place their fingers 2-Teach how to color in the lines by outlining a shape with the string. 3- Teach how to trace by

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Designing for the Senses

One of my projects has been to work in collaboration with designer Deborah Dimare to create Sensory Smart Spaces for children with ASD and with Sensory Sensitivities. We were featured on the TODAY SHOW a few years ago during Autism Awareness Month!!! What a great experience!   CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO

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