Blog: Activities/Crafts
Tools to Grow is pleased to offer our annual FREE Activity-a-Day Summer 2019 Calendars with over 100 activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories! By providing their child the opportunity to engage in these activities, parents will be offe...
Read MoreTools to Grow is excited to share our annual FREE Activity-a-Day Summer 2018 Version Calendars with over 300 activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories! This year we have provided calendars for the months of June, July, and August 2018. &nb...
Read MoreIt’s October, a month of cool evenings, fall leaves, and Halloween activities! We have a fun Halloween Mummy Themed craft that the children in your life will love! This Halloween craft includes a FREE template! Materials Required: Mummy Pattern/Template Find FREE Printab...
Read MoreWe think Ice Cream should be enjoyed throughout the year, but we know children really love it in the summer! Here are many new and creative activities to use with children of all ages that have a fun ice cream theme! 1. Puffy Paint Ice Cream - Tactile Craft This Ice Cream Puffy Paint Craf...
Read MoreWinter is here! For many of you that means cold weather, hats, mittens, boots, snow, and ice! Tools to Grow is excited to highlight 30 fun-filled winter themed resources and activities. Some of these activities are meant for the chilly outdoors. For those of you without snowy weather, many of...
Read MoreStaying true to our mission to provide valuable resources that children will find engaging, Tools To Grow is happy to offer Tactile Holiday Ornaments! Using a motivating Holiday theme, this FREE and effective resource targets a variety of performance challenges children may encounter. If...
Read MoreThe holiday season is here and we have a fun fine motor Reindeer themed game that kids of all ages will love to play! Reindeer Games is a great way to encourage fine motor skill development! Great for use in groups or individually. Through the use of these Fine Motor Challenges, the foll...
Read MoreThanksgiving is almost here and we have a great Turkey Handwriting Craft that kids will love to make that addresses a variety of fine motor, bilateral integration, visual motor coordination, praxis, and handwriting skills. We have included a FREE Printable template/pattern for this turkey craft. ...
Read MoreBecause of their beauty and carefree flight, children are fascinated by butterflies. Their interesting life cycle and incredible journeys to migrate, further our interest in these small and delicate creatures. Parents that want their child to get a healthy dose of nature may encourage their interest...
Read MoreSummer 2016 is fast approaching and most children will be on an extended break from school. While every child deserves a break from the rigor of school, summer vacation offers exceptional opportunities for children to learn and develop outside the structure of formal school. Tools to Grow is pleas...
Read MoreTools To Grow, Inc. is excited to launch our newest offering…Gifts for Growing! This theme based kit fulfills our mission to provide valuable tools for the most important job there is … helping children grow! A gift for the child in your life… Parents, grandparen...
Read MoreWe have a great tactile winter Polar Bear craft that children of all ages will love to make! This activity addresses a variety of skills including fine motor control, bilateral coordination, visual motor integration, visual perception, and sensory processing. This Polar Bear ...
Read MoreThe holidays are here and we have a fun Christmas Stocking themed fine motor craft that kids will love to make! This activity addresses a variety of fine motor, bilateral integration, hand-eye coordination, visual motor coordination, and praxis skills. We have included a FREE Printable templat...
Read MoreThe holidays are fast approaching! Our mission is to provide valuable tools to therapists, educators, special needs teachers, and parents/caregivers to help with the most important job there is … helping children grow! We are so excited to giveaway 4 Holiday themed kits!! We would lo...
Read MoreWe have a great tactile recipe that will allow a child the opportunity to explore and create a Thanksgiving turkey with their fingers and hands. This Thanksgiving Turkey Dough activity provides an excellent sensory experience! Other benefits include: Tactile- a variety of touch experiences ...
Read MoreSummer is almost here and we have a fun Sandpaper Starfish Activity and Sandpaper Castle Craftivity that your students and children will LOVE!! Sandpaper is a great material that provides tactile input to help with tactile discrimination (learning smooth versus rough), tactile hyper-sensitivity (...
Read MoreMother's Day is next weekend and we have a great craft and activity for your students/children to make! This craftivity targets a variety of skills, which include number recognition, fine motor, visual motor integration, folding, and bilateral coordination skills. The end result is a beautiful 3-D ...
Read MoreApril is the American Occupational Therapy Month. To celebrate we are happy to share our OT Month resources and activities. We have an exciting Photo-a-Day Challenge, OT Month Poster/Flyer, OT Month Craftivity, “What Do I Do in OT?" Coloring Book, and many more resources to inspire you to pro...
Read MoreWe are excited to share with you some St. Patrick's Day activities and fine motor fun! These activities are associated with our high quality printable resources. All of these resources can be found here in our Holidays/Seasons/Themes section: St. Patrick's Day. SENSORY COLORING RAIN...
Read MoreValentine’s Day is quickly approaching and we have some fun fine motor activities and games for you! Fine Motor Skills involve the use of precise and coordinated movements of the fingers to perform hand use tasks. Fine motor skills are necessary for completing daily tasks such as dressing (us...
Read MoreWinter is officially here and we have a fun activity kids will love to make that addresses a variety of fine motor, bilateral coordination, visual motor integration, sensory processing, and handwriting skills. Occupational Therapists use clinical reasoning to design and implement therape...
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