As a parent who homeschools and provides occupational therapy at home, I focus a lot on helping my child develop fine motor skills and problem-solving skills.
A Hands-On Way to Teach Indian States to My Child with Special Needs
Few years ago, we started using geography puzzles with pegs to improve fine motor skills and then moved to foam puzzles to challenge those tiny finger muscles. At the same time, we were exploring and learning about the continents, countries, and now states of India. For our geography curriculum, I…
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A Big Milestone: My Child with Down Syndrome Learns to Write Words.
Her love for letters and their sounds is growing day by day. A few days ago, she amazed me by writing some of her favourite words with the help of their sounds. I was speaking the words out loud, focusing on the sounds, and V tried to write the words.…
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How My Child with Down Syndrome Learned Jigsaw Puzzles: Tips and Skills That Helped Her.
Recently we moved to a 108 pieces puzzle. Looking back, it has been a challenging journey. There were lots of tears, failures, surprises, excitement, and learning. Puzzles demand a lot of attention, focus, and thinking skills. So before introducing jigsaw puzzles, offer chunky puzzles as they are easy to grasp.…
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DIY Zipper Board
I made this Zipper Board a few years ago to improve Veda’s grip, fine motor skills and finger strengthening. Not only it will help in strengthening those tiny finger muscles but also a great way to learn the life skills like zipping. Veda loves DIY activities as she has a…
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Fun DIY Activity to Teach Kids Big and Small Concepts
Planning to make your child learn about big and small concepts in a fun way? Then try this DIY activity I found online and made a few years ago for Veda. My daughter loved pompoms and DIY activities when she was a toddler. I tried to incorporate pompoms into every…
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Geoboard Activities: Strengthening Little Hands
I focus a lot more on fine motor skills and problem-solving skills for V. This wooden geo board is a great activity to learn the basic shapes. You can also practice standing or slanting lines and other patterns. It helps enhance those fine motor skills. Veda who doesn’t like to…
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Theraputty Fun Exercises
Few years ago, V was a child with a severely poor grip due to muscle weakness. Holding a stack ring was even a big task for her, forget about putting the rings on the stacker even at the age of 2 years. I introduced Theraputty with some fun exercises to…
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Fine Motor Fun
If I have to choose only one activity(which is absolutely hard to do) which we enjoy a lot and a great way to improve fine motor skills of our kids, then without doubt I am going to pick pom pom sorting/colour matching with tweezers. Few years ago I got Learning…
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