3rd Grade Occupational Therapy Resources

Using this hands on, multisensory activity, students won’t even realize they are learning their letters! In this resource, they will learn letter formation by first building the letters, coloring the letters and pictures, tracing the letter, and writing the letter.

This is not only a fun and engaging way to learn letter formation, but students are working on foundational fine motor skills needed for writing. Students don’t have to use a pencil for writing, try broken crayons (broken crayons help promote tripod grasp pattern), q-tip painting, or fingerpaint. When writing letters for this activity, students use handwriting letter boxes to help with letter size, placement, and spacing. Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT groups, homeschool, and handwriting practice

This activity addresses:

Fine and visual motor skills

Fine motor strength and precision

Fine Motor Coordination

Hand strength

Visual Perception

Letter recognition

Letter formation

Included:

78 pages, three for each letter of the alphabet. This set focuses on UPPERCASE letters.

Each uppercase letter has 3 pages:

1. Circle Letter Page:

Build the letter using:

•Bingo Dauber

•Stamps

•Stickers

•Playdough

•Q-tip Painting

•Pipecleaners

•Wiki Stix

•Crumple tissue paper into balls and glue

•Placing pom poms with tongs

•Buttons/pennies

•Wherever your imagination takes you!!

2. Letter Search and Find and Coloring Page:

Color letter and corresponding picture using

•Broken crayons (to promote tripod grasp)

•Finger paint

•Q-tip Painting

•Wherever your imagination takes you!!

Search and find letter using

•Broken crayons (to promote tripod grasp)

•Finger paint

•Q-tip Painting

•Bingo dauber

•Stamp

•Stickers

Placing small pom poms using tongs

3. Trace and Write Page

•Color picture

•Have student first trace over letter with finger. Make sure formation is correct.

•Trace

•Copy letter in letter box

•Write letter on line

Are you looking for carry over in the home setting to promote fine motor skills, scissor skills, handwriting practice, sensory, visual motor activities, finger isolation and grasp? The Occupational Therapy Activities for Home Checklist has you covered with 140 activities to choose from!

Occupational Therapy editable PDF handouts with activities to improve skills at home. Each category has one page of activities. You can select the activities that are best for your student or client.

This Editable PDF includes 8 categories:

• Fine Motor Activities
• Finger Isolation
• Scissor Skills
• Handwriting Practice
• Grasp
• Visual Motor
• Activities of Daily Life
• Sensory

This simple-to-use checklist is designed to help parents, caregivers, and teachers easily engage in the development of fine motor skills in the home or classroom. With this checklist, you get helpful, easy-to-follow ideas for activities that will improve and maintain fine motor skills with children.

The Occupational Therapy Activities for Home Checklist provides an extensive list of activities that help children develop and refine their fine motor skills in a fun and engaging way, including finger isolation, hand strengthening and pencil control. The activities are designed to strengthen sensory, visual motor and visual perceptual skills, and can be adjusted to fit the needs of any age group.

The Occupational Therapy Activities for Home Checklist is the perfect tool to develop and refine fine motor skills for parents and caregivers.

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Does your student struggle with handwriting? Make learning to write lowercase letters fun with this printable lowercase letter formation handwriting worksheet activity set! There are 36 lowercase letter practice pages included.

Improve handwriting skills with fading tracing letter cues for lowercase letters a-z. There are 26 worksheets included in this product covering lowercase letters a-z. This activity set provides a foundation for lowercase letter size and divides lowercase letters into 3 groups: small letters (a,c,e, etc.) tall letters (b,d,h,l, etc.) and dive letters( g,j,y,p,q).

This is a NO PREP, time-saving, print and go activity. This product includes three 8.5 x11 posters reviewing small, tall and dive letters. This is the perfect addition to improve handwriting skills. This activity is great for a writing station, literacy station, occupational therapy room, therapy gym or early elementary classroom.

Improve visual scanning skills and letter identification by completing the cut, sort and paste small, tall and dive letters activity. This product also includes letter movement activity learn how to make your body like small, tall and dive letters while completing exercises. Collect handwriting samples with 26 lowercase a-z practice pages.

Here's what is included-

36 PAGES TOTAL:

- 3 Posters 8.5 x11 reviewing letter size - small, tall and dive letters

- Cut, Sort & Paste Letters - 4 pages

- Visual cue reminder cards for a student's desk or pencil case - 1 page

- Letter Movement Activity - 1 page

- 26 a-z lowercase letter formation pages with fading lowercase letter tracing

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Fine motor play Dough 12 in-hand manipulation exercise handouts using real photos to improve fine motor strengthening and fine motor coordination skills. This product includes 2 gift tags for summer home exercise program packets.

Are you looking for fun interactive worksheets to track progress on scissor skills? This is a no prep resource. Simply print your desired pages for any student or treatment session. Improve your students scissors skills and monitor progress using fun, interactive cutting worksheets available in this set. There are 72 worksheets to choose from. Most worksheets are in black and white to promote coloring, cut, glue and paste skills. Did you know scissor skills requires bilateral motor coordination skills, intrinsic hand muscle strength, hand-eye coordination, sequencing skills and fine motor skills? Help improve all of these skills with this no prep resource!

There are 9 categories:

1. Data Collection

2. Snip

3. Horizontal Lines

4. Vertical Lines

5. Curves

6. Circles

7. Squares/Rectangles

8. Triangles

9. Complex Shapes

This set also includes 9 cover pages and 9 tabs to store the cutting worksheets in a binder or store the set on your computer and print on the go.

Are you searching for no prep printable fine motor Thanksgiving pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, handwriting skills and scissor skills? This product includes 40 pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students.

What's included:

- 10 cutting strips (5 Right-handed & 5 Left-handed)

- 3 Finger puppet- Color, cut fine motor turkey race worksheets

- 9 Pre-Writing Stroke Practice Pages (One for each Pre-Writing Stroke)

- 3 Levels Search, Find & Color Turkey in Disguise

- 2 Thanksgiving Word Search

- 3 Cryptogram Word & 1 Create a sentence page

- 2 Cryptogram questions

- 2 Box words

- 5 pages of mazes

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Bouncy Ball 2 gift tag options and 8 in-hand manipulation exercise handouts using real photos. Bouncy balls are great to improve in-hand manipulation skills, fine motor skills and dexterity skills.

Occupational Therapy fine motor no prep zoo theme printable pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills,handwriting skills, number formation, letter formation, solving riddles, writing prompts and scissor skills. This product includes 51 pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students. 

What's included:

- 10 Fossil Cutting Strips

- 2 Color, Cut & Paste Activities

- 2 Clothespin Match/Numbers

- 2 Dot-To-Dot Worksheets

- 1 Dinosaur Outline Worksheet

- 2 Dinosaur Tracing Worksheets

- 2 Dinosaur Dot Marker Worksheets

- 2 Color By Letter

- 9 Pre-Writing Stroke Practice Pages (One for each Pre-Writing Stroke)

- 5 Directed Drawing

- 1 Spot the Difference

- 1 Box Words

- 2 Correct the Sentences

- 2 Writing Prompts

- 2 Word Search

- 1 Word Scramble

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Are you searching for a comprehensive and user-friendly tool to assess and improve handwriting skills? Look no further! This Handwriting Self-Assessment and Self-Reflection is a 42-page digital download resource that empowers teachers, occupational therapists and students alike to track progress, boost self-confidence, and collect valuable work samples.

Key Features:

1. Versatile Assessment Scales:

• Emoji Scale: Express emotions through emojis to gauge how students feel about their handwriting.
• Thumbs Up, Thumbs in the Middle, Thumbs Down Scale: Provide quick, visual feedback on self-confidence in handwriting.
• 5-Point Scale: A detailed scale for more nuanced self-assessment.

2. Comprehensive Self-Assessment:

• Encourage students to evaluate their own handwriting skills.
• Foster self-awareness and personal growth.

3. Data Tracking:

• Effortlessly monitor handwriting progress over time.
• Identify areas for improvement and set goals.

4. Self-Confidence Boost:

• Promote self-esteem by acknowledging achievements.
• Help students build confidence in their writing abilities.

5. Work Sample Collection:

• Easily gather handwriting samples for analysis and reference.
• Document progress and achievements throughout the year.

Benefits:

• Streamline the assessment process.
• Foster a growth mindset in students.
• Empower students to take ownership of their learning.
• Collect valuable data for reporting and improvement.
• Enhance self-confidence and motivation.

Are you searching for no prep printable fine motor Valentine's Day pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, handwriting skills and scissor skills? This product includes 38 pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students.

What's included:

- 12 cutting strips (6 Right-handed & 6 Left-handed)

- 9 Pre-Writing Stroke Practice Pages (One for each Pre-Writing Stroke)

- 1 Color By Letter

- 1 Color By Number

- 2 Search Find and Color

- 2 Valentine's Day Box Words

- 3 Versions of Writing Activity- Things I love (Bold baseline, triple line and no lines)

- 1 Cryptogram questions

- 3 Valentine’s Day Word Maze Scramble

- 4 pages of Valentine's Day Putty Activity Cards

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Thanksgiving Sensory Bin Activity Cards - The Perfect Blend of Learning and Fun! Includes 38 pages. Engage students with this Thanksgiving Sensory Bin Activity Card Set.

Are you looking for a creative and interactive way to help your child develop essential early literacy and fine motor skills? Look no further! The Sensory Bin Activity Cards offer an exciting and literacy rich sensory activity that combines the joys of play with the benefits of skill-building.

Key Features:

1. Letter and Number Tracing: Our set includes cards that make learning letters and numbers a breeze. Watch as your students confidently traces each letter and number, setting the foundation for a strong start in reading and math.
2. Pre-Writing Strokes: Encourage the development of fine motor skills with cards designed to practice pre-writing strokes. Your child will gain better control over their hand movements, setting them up for success to write letters and numbers
3. Fine Motor Games: In addition to tracing and writing, our Sensory Bin Activity Cards come with three exciting fine motor games to keep your child engaged and entertained:

• Build a Turkey: Get ready to assemble a delightful turkey with colorful feathers, fostering creativity and motor skills. Your student will love piecing together their very own turkey masterpiece.
• Disguise a Turkey: Let your child's imagination run wild as they disguise their turkey in imaginative costumes. This game promotes creativity, critical thinking, and fine motor skills while having loads of fun. Add additional writing opportunities by creating a story about their turkey in disguise!
• Bowling Game: Roll, aim, and strike! Our bowling game is perfect for refining hand-eye coordination and balance. Your child will enjoy endless hours of laughter while perfecting their aiming skills and practice copying pre-writing, letters, and numbers.

Occupational Therapy fine motor no prep zoo theme printable pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills,handwriting skills, number formation, letter formation, solving riddles, writing promots and scissor skills. This product includes 43 pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students. 

What's included:

- 8 Animal Cutting Strips

- 1 Create a Zoo Cutting Activity

- 2 Color By Letter Pages 

- 9 Pre-Writing Stroke Practice Pages (One for each Pre-Writing Stroke)

- 1 Template to cut out 3 farm animals and create legs/tails with clothespins

- 2 Pencil Control pages

- 3 Match and Trace Animals/Letters

- 3 Match and Trace Animals/Numbers

- 2 Zoo Box Words

- 5 Writing Prompts with triple line paper

- 5 Writing Prompts with single baseline paper
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Are you searching for no prep printable pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, handwriting skills and scissor skills? This product includes 44 pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students.

What's included:

- 2 Color By Letter Pages

- 9 Pre-Writing Stroke Practice Pages (One for each Pre-Writing Stroke)

- 4 Cryptogram Word & 1 Create a sentence page

- 4 Cryptogram questions

- 18 Pages of Scissor Skills practice including pumpkin thumbprint strips for right and left handed students

- 5 pages of mazes

- 1 page of boxed words

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Are you searching for no prep printable fine motor Christmas pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, handwriting skills and scissor skills? This product includes 43 pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students.

What's included:

-Thumbprint Cutting Strips- Right Hand- 6 pages

-Thumbprint Cutting Strips- Left Hand-6 pages

-Color, Cut & Paste- 2 pages

-Pre-Writing - 9 pages

-Dot Marker Dot Art - 2 pages

-Q-tip Paint Pages-2 pages

-Dot-to-Dot - 2 pages

-Letter and Number Fill-in-the-blank- 3 pages

-Box Words -2 pages

-Cryptogram -2 pages

-Directed Drawing- 3 pages

-Word Search - 2 pages

-Word Search Answer Key- 2 pages

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Occupational Therapy End of the Year pencil warm-up activities in-hand manipulation exercise handouts using real photos to improve in-hand manipulation skills and fine motor coordination skills. This product includes 2 gift tags for summer home exercise program packets and 3 pencil control exercises.

Are you searching for no prep printable fine motor Back to School pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, handwriting skills and scissor skills? This product includes 35 pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students.

What's included:

- Thumbprint Cutting Strips- Right Hand- 5 pages

-Thumbprint Cutting Strips- Left Hand-5 pages

-Thumbprint Hole Punch Right Hand- 1 page

-Thumbprint Hole Punch Left Hand - 1 page

-Apple Dot Art - 1 page

-Dot-to-Dot - 1 page

-Glue Practice - 1 page

-Pre-Writing - 9 pages

-Trace the Lines - 1 page

-Search Find & Color - 2 pages

-Color By Letter -2 pages

-Box Words -2 pages

-Word Search - 2 pages

-Cryptogram -2 pages

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Are you constantly reminding your students to take out their required school supplies or materials such as glasses, pencil grips, hearing aids, or adaptive scissors? This product is designed to streamline those reminders with ease!

This set includes 5 desk visuals with 4 different phrases: "You will need," "I will need," "Materials needed," and "Do you have?" Accompanied by 80 visuals to choose from, you can create custom desk visual cue cards tailored for each student’s needs.

Perfect for classroom teachers, special education teachers, occupational therapists, and homeschooling parents, this product enhances independence and ensures students have what they need at their fingertips. Simplify your day and keep your students prepared with these handy visual reminders.

Occupational Therapy fine motor no prep food theme printable pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, handwriting skills, writing prompts and scissor skills. This product includes 40 pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students. 

What's included:

- 10 Food Thumbprint Cutting Strips

- 2 Color, Cut & Paste Activities

- 2 Search & Find Numbers

- 2 Search, Find, Color & Count Categories

- 2 Color By Letter

- 9 Pre-Writing Stroke Practice Pages (One for each Pre-Writing Stroke)

- 3 Directed Drawing

- 1 Spot the Difference

- 2 Box Words

- 2 Correct the Sentences

- 1 Writing Prompt

- 1 Writing Food List Activity

- 2 Word Search

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Are you searching for no prep printable holiday Hanukkah pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, handwriting skills and scissor skills? This product includes 40 Hanukkah fine motor pages which includes no prep printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students. 

What's included:

- 14 Pages of Scissor Skills practice including gelt thumbprint strips for right and left handed students 

- 6 pages of dot marker pages

- 2 pages of mazes 

- 2 Dot-To-Dot 

- 2 Search, Find & Color 

- 9 Pre-Writing Stroke Practice Pages (One for each Pre-Writing Stroke)

- 2 Word Search 

- 2 Box Words 

- 1 Cryptogram Questions 

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Are you searching for no prep printable St. Patrick's Day Occupational Therapy fine motor fun pages that promote fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, pre-writing skills, handwriting skills and scissor skills? This product includes 36 pages which includes no prep, printable black and white pages that are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, pre-k students and primary-aged students.

What's included:

- 14 cutting strips (7 Right-handed & 7 Left-handed)

- 9 Pre-Writing Stroke Practice Pages (One for each Pre-Writing Stroke)

- 2 Dot Marker Art

- 1 Color By Letter

- 2 Search Find Color and Write

- 2 St. Patrick's Day Box Words

- Uppercase Letters

- Lowercase Letters

- St. Patrick's Day Word Search

- St. Patrick's Day ABC Order

- 2 mazes

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