The Ot Toolbox Easy Shapes Big Rig Truck Craft
Occupational therapy crafts, and essentially any crafts for kids, are a central part to the typical pediatric OT session. There is a reason why these crafts for kids are so popular on our website: Occupational therapy is founded in craft-making. So, when we, as OTs go back to our profession's roots, we address underlying skill areas through fun and engaging crafts.
Children that make these OT crafts are developing motor skills and cognitive skills, but also the social-emotional and mental development that we as OTs center our profession around. We love to create with crafts. By making crafts with kids, they are not only creating, but also building essential skills. Many of the kids crafts on this site use recycled items or items you've already got in the home.
As a special resource, I've added additional OT crafts and ideas that use items in the home, making schooling at home or telehealth services easier when it comes to coming up with occupational therapy teletherapy activity ideas.
Occupational Therapy Crafts
There are so many developmental benefits to crafting with kids. Use the occupational therapy craft ideas in planning in person or OT teletherapy services. Other crafts can be sent home as an OT home program idea. Children can create while working on skills like fine motor dexterity and strength, line awareness, scissor skills, language, self-confidence, problem solving, tool use, and more.
What's more, is that kids can create within their interests and will not even realize they are working on skill areas as they craft. Some of these OT craft ideas can pair nicely with homeschooling or schooling at home unit studies and classroom lessons. The best news is that I've strived to include loads of recycled crafts so using recycled materials in craft creation is easy.
Scroll through our collection of crafts and choose a few to do with your children. Have fun crafting! And don't forget to stop back soon, we'll be adding more crafts soon.
Kids Crafts With Items in the Home
Items in the home can be used in crafts Try some of these items:
- Paper bags
- Newspaper
- Paper towels
- Shredded paper
- Plastic food containers
- Clothes pins
- Cardboard boxes
- Tissue Boxes
- Wrapping paper
- Post-It Notes
- Coffee Filters
Fine Motor Occupational Therapy Crafts
Occupational therapy crafts many times, center around the development of fine motor skills. Cutting, pasting, tearing, positioning, beading, knotting, sewing…all of these functional tasks require fine motor strength, coordination, grasp, precision, manipulation of craft materials and tools.
Below, you'll find crafts for kids that can be used to promote fine motor development, refine the skills needed for other fine motor tasks.
Occupational therapy craft materials
But first, what are some crafting materials you can add to your occupational therapy toolbox? Consider adding these items to your therapy bag:
- Craft pom poms
- Clothes pins
- Various grades of paper
- Scissors
- Glue (Squeeze glue in a bottle is best for hand strength development)
- Beads
- Pipe cleaners
- Paper clips
- Straws
- Cardboard
- Yarn
- Buttons
- Cupcake liners
There are many other craft materials out there that support fine motor development, but with this small list of materials, you can create a huge array of crafts that support skill-building in OT sessions.
Fine Motor Crafts for Kids
These fine motor crafts for kids work on specific fine motor skills: strength, dexterity, manipulation of materials, in hand manipulation, and pinch and grip. Children creating these crafts gain experience in the small motor skills needed for tasks like object manipulation, tool use, pencil grasp, clothing fasteners, and any small motor activity.
- Newt Craft
- Recycled Materials Crafts
- DIY Zipper Pull Craft
- Very Fun Crafts that Build Fine Motor Skills
Textured Crafts for Kids
These craft ideas incorporate various textures and textiles, giving kids experience in manipulating a variety of materials. All of that experience adds up: children become more confident in manipulating materials.
- Fine Motor Skills with Felt Scraps
- Olympic Rings Craft
- Felt Scraps Fairy Wands
- Yarn and Washers Jewelry Craft
- Sun Catcher Crafts
Learning Crafts
These kids crafts add learning components. Make the scarecrow craft and add math problems. The germ crafts are great for a lesson on washing hands and germs. Add these crafts to a lesson plan.
- Scarecrow Math Craft
- Germ Craft
- Pirate Puppet
- Math Art Crafts
Preschool Crafts for Kids
These craft ideas cover nursery rhymes and preschool themes. They are great ways to help preschoolers develop important skills: fine motor work, scissor skills, shapes, early math, direction following, and more.
- Circus Tent Craft
- Jack Be Nimble Nursery Rhyme Craft
- There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Craft
- Grand Old Duke of York Craft
Simple Shape Crafts for Kids
These crafts are easy to make and great for kids just learning to use and manipulate scissors. The simple shape crafts hare much like tangrams: Building the craft requires kids to use visual motor integration skills to place the shapes where they go in alignment with others on the page. They are great tools for developing spatial awareness and position in space skills.
- Fire Truck Craft
- Backhoe Craft
- Big Rig Craft
Process Art Crafts for Kids
These process art crafts are great for occupational therapy because they add messy, sensory play. Kids gain experience with tactile input through various textures and gain confidence, creativity, communication skills, and learning.
Creative painting is such a fun way to explore the senses and create with color theory. Kids will love these creative painting activities:
- Feather Flower Craft
- Stamped Art Flower
- Noodle Garland
- Goop Painting
- Gift Bow Stamp Art
- Painting With Yarn
- Concentric Circles Stamp Art
- Sparkle Collage Art
- Creative Painting Art Ideas
- Concentric Circles Stamp Art
- Sparkle Collage Art
- Creative Painting Art Ideas
- Monster Cupcake Liner Craft
Book Crafts for Kids
These book related crafts are based on preschool books. Read the book, talk about the concepts in the book and complete the crafts. You can come up with a whole therapy lesson plan or classroom lesson plan based on these preschool book crafts.
- I Ain't Gonna Paint No More Craft
- My Many Colored Days Feelings Calendar
- Crayon Shaving Art
- Beautiful Oops
Recycled Crafts for Kids
Kids can use items like recycled plastic bottles, bottle caps, egg cartons, newspapers, and so many other items in occupational therapy crafts that build skills. Consider some of these recycled items that can be used in crafts for kids:
- Plastic water bottles
- Bottle caps
- Paper Towel Tubes
- Toilet Paper Tubes
- Bread ties
- Egg cartons
- Cardboard boxes
- Takeout containers
- Food containers
- Tissue paper
- Cereal boxes
- Worksheets or printer paper
- Old crafts or artwork
- Junk mail
Paper Material Crafts
Items like recycled paper tubes, egg cartons, and coffee filters are great for developing fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination skills.
- Coffee Filter Crafts
- TMNT Stamp Craft
- TMNT Cupcake Liner Craft
- TMNT Egg Carton Craft
- Robot Crafts
- Sensory Tambourine Craft
- Painting With Yarn
- Painting With Yarn
Year-Round Crafts for Kids
These craft ideas can be used with any theme in the school setting, in preschool classrooms, or in occupational therapy sessions year round. Use these crafts to support child development skills any time of year.
- Empathy Beads Craft
- Potato Stamp Crafts
- Bernoulli's Principle Glider
- Soap Shaving Bookmarks
- Solar System Craft
- Miniature Rhythm Sticks
- Baking Soda Paints
- Superhero Craft
Animal Crafts for Kids
Use these animal crafts for kids to support fine motor development, eye-hand coordination skills, scissor skills, and more with a fun animal theme.
- Butterfly Life Cycle Crafts
- Polar Bear Craft
- Black Cat Craft
- Turtle Thumbprint Craft
- Giraffe Craft
- Skunk Craft
- Panda Bear Craft
- Ant Crafts
- Folded Animal Crafts
- Cute Frog Crafts
- Spider Craft
- Penguin Craft
- Orca Craft
- Folded Paper Penguin Craft
- Monkey Bookmark Craft
- Bird Bookmark Craft
- Caterpillar Craft
- Zebra Craft
Summer Crafts for Kids
These summer craft ideas will have kids developing skills during the summer months. Use these as occupational therapy home programs over the summer months to work on scissor skills, handwriting, and fine motor strength.
Fall Crafts for Kids
These Fall themed craft support child development and motor skills using sunflowers, Fall leaves, school buses, and other fun Fall themes.
- Fall Leaves Craft
- Back To School Morning Routine Story Stones
- School Bus Craft
- Sunflower Craft
- Paper Roll Apple Stamps
- Gratitude Leaf Garland
- Paper Roll Turkey Stamp Art
- Turkey Napkin Ring
- Paper Roll Pumpkin Stamps
- Turkey Juice Box Cover
- Pumpkin Thumbprint Art
- Ghost Craft
- Spider Craft
- Bat Craft
- Fall Tree Crafts
Winter Crafts for Kids
These Winter crafts support development of skills using snowflakes, ice, winter birds, and other Winter themes.
- Christmas Tree Sun Catcher Craft
- Fine Motor Christmas Tree
- Winter Bird Crafts
- Lid Ornament Garland
- Icicle Scissor Skills Craft
- Fine Motor Snowman Craft
- Snowflake Craft
- Spaghetti Wreath Ornament
- Reindeer Antler Ornament
- Snowman Crafts
- Santa Snack Crafts
- Pine Cone Christmas Tree
- Gingerbread Salt Dough Garland
- Glitter Paint Snowman Craft
- Fine Motor Snowman
- Christmas Tree Juice Wrap
- Snowflake Stamp Art
- Peppermint Salt Dough Ornament
- New Years Activity Countdown Chain
- Salt Truck Craft
- Pattern Christmas Tree Ornament
- Fine Motor Sparkle Craft
- Noodle Garland
- Goop Painting
- Chocolate Heart Craft
- Heart Salt Dough Key Chain
- Valentine's Day Tea
- I Love Ewe Handprint Art
- Olive You Fingerprint Art
- One Zillion Valentines Airplane Craft
- Groundhog's Day Puppet Craft
Spring Crafts for Pediatric OCcupational therapy
These Spring themed crafts develop fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, dexterity, scissor skills, and more…all with fun holiday and seasonal Spring crafts for occupational therapy sessions!
- Bead Collage Art
- Rainbow Paper Tube Craft
- Rainbow Beads Bracelets
- Recycled Art Flower Craft
- Bunny and Carrots Pipe Cleaner Craft
- Chick Puppet Craft
- Chick Juice Box Cover
- Shamrock Thumbprint Art
- Feather Flower Craft
- Stamped Art Flower
- Cherry Blossom Tree Craft
- Robin Craft
More kids Craft Ideas:
- Chain Link Crafts
- Love Bug Crafts
- Frog Crafts
These are crafts we've created! We love to add fine motor and sensory details into each of our crafts. Colleen's background as an occupational therapist provides expert input about the visual, fine motor, and sensory aspects of our crafts. We love to have fun creating and hope you get a few ideas from our list! We're always creating, so stop back often to see more ideas.
KIDS' CRAFTS FOR ALL-SEASONS
- Make Your Own Textured Paint
- Make Your Own Colored Sand
- Stamp Roll Painting
- Random Acts of Kindness Banner
- Olympic Rings Craft
- Clay Rocks Outdoor Decoration Craft
- 3D Drip Paint
- Multi-Age Learning With Color Art Projects
- Honey Bee Pinch Pins
- Twinkle Little Star Potato Stamps
- Glitter and Button Sun Catchers
- Process Versus Product focused art for Kids
For more crafts and tools to support fine motor skills, grab one of our Fine Motor Kits! Each one includes themed cut and paste crafts, tissue paper art, glue art, lacing cards, and much more. Check them out!
Use these Fine Motor Kits for hands-on activity kits to develop fine motor skills, strength, dexterity, and manipulation. Kids LOVE these fine motor kits for the motivating activities. Therapists love them because it's fresh, fun ways to work on pinch, grip, manipulation skills, and much more. Try some of these themed therapy kits:
- Fall Fine Motor Kit
- Winter Fine Motor Kit
- Spring Fine Motor Kit
- Summer Fine Motor Kit
- Frogs and Toads Themed Fine Motor Kit
- Letters! Fine Motor Kit
- Outer Space Themed Fine Motor Kit
- Valentine's Day Fine Motor Kit
- Penguin Themed Fine Motor Kit
- Snowman Themed Fine Motor Kit
Colleen Beck, OTR/L is an occupational therapist with 20+ years experience, graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. As the creator, author, and owner of the website and its social media channels, Colleen strives to empower those serving kids of all levels and needs. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.
Source: https://www.theottoolbox.com/crafts-for-kids/
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