Blog: Gross Motor
TOPIC: Brain Breaks Easy To Use Strategies for Providing Sensory Motor Breaks For School Age Students Welcome to the Ninth Edition of Tips For Growing! These blog posts will focus on important clinical topics that are regularly encountered when working with children. T...
Read MorePediatric therapists know that praxis is a broad term that involves a child’s ability to conceptualize, organize, and direct unfamiliar purposeful actions. Praxis has been described as a bridge between cognition and action. Praxis allows children to plan and execute motor skills in a refined ...
Read MoreThe Winter Olympic Games are almost here and we have the perfect activities and games kids of all ages will love to play! The Winter Olympics Games: Gross Motor Challenges are a great way to encourage gross motor skill development! Great for use in groups or individually. Through the u...
Read MoreTools to Grow is extremely honored to present guest blogger and Pediatric Physical Therapist Laurie Gombash, the creator of The ABC’s of Movement®. We are excited for you to learn all about the "ABC's of Movement", which includes Activity Cards and a Music CD that helps children ...
Read MoreLooking for a fun active learning game? We are excited to share two games to get your kids moving! Kids will love counting the chips … but be careful, don't drop the cookies! We are pleased to be a part of The Inspired Treehouse's Brain Boosters Blog Series. This series explores movement-b...
Read MoreClick Here to Find our Summer 2016 Activity-a-Day Blog Post Here! Tools to Grow is pleased to offer a FREE Activity-a-Day Summer Calendar with over 100 activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories! By providing their child the...
Read MoreSpring is here and Easter is right around the corner; and we have a fun gross motor game for you! Bunny Hop! Gross Motor Game helps children improve their gross motor skills, endurance, motor planning skills, direction following, execution of a sequence, number skills, memory, and turn taking abili...
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...
Read MoreThe occupation of children is play, and the benefits of playing outdoors and developing praxis are many!! It is officially summer vacation and we have been spending lots of time outside! Watching my 6 year old son climb and navigate through this net structure at a playground allowed for a great vis...
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