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5 Ways to Improve Gross Motor Skills Over the Summer

June 25, 2015 By Heather Greutman 4 Comments

Improve those gross motor skills over the summer with these 5 fun ideas!

Summer is here and with it means warmer temperatures and kids hopefully being outside and active more. Summer is a great time to work on improving gross motor skills, especially core and strengthening activities that can benefit your child for the coming school months. Today I am going to share some fun and easy ways […]

Filed Under: Occupational Therapy Tips Tagged With: For Parents, Gross Motor

35 Beach and Ocean Themed Sensory Play Ideas

May 22, 2015 By Heather Greutman 5 Comments

Some of the best ocean and beach themed sensory play ideas for kids from kid bloggers. www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

I absolutely LOVE the beach and ocean. Unfortunately, living in southwest Ohio means the beach is at least 12 hours away and we are lucky if we get there once a year. Ellie has yet to experience a real beach or ocean so I wanted to bring the experience to her right here. Today I […]

Filed Under: Child Development Tagged With: Fine Motor, For Parents, For Teachers, Gross Motor, Sensory, Tot-School

Summer Developmental Activities for Kids – Printable Included

May 7, 2015 By Heather Greutman 2 Comments

Summer Developmental Activities for Kids, plus free printable.

With many children home from school over the summer, I thought it would be a great idea to give you some summer developmental activity ideas that your kids will love to participate in. Summer Developmental Activities for Kids When I was working as an Occupational Therapy Assistant in the public school system, I put together […]

Filed Under: Child Development Tagged With: Child Development, Fine Motor, For Parents, For Teachers, For Therapists, Gross Motor, Infants/Toddlers 0-3, Kindergarten, Preschool 3-5

Y is for Yard Work Sensory Play

April 28, 2015 By Heather Greutman Leave a Comment

Yard work sensory play ideas, perfect for proprioception input. www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

I am thrilled to have my dear blogging friend Colleen of Raising Lifelong Learners sharing with us as part of the A-Z’s of Sensory Play for Kids series. She has a great post on using yard work as sensory play!    Kids that need proprioceptive input will love helping out in the yard during all […]

Filed Under: Hands-On Activities Tagged With: For Parents, Gross Motor, Sensory

W is for Wheels Sensory Play

April 21, 2015 By Heather Greutman Leave a Comment

Wheels sensory play ideas. www.GoldenReflectionsBlog.com

I am very excited to have Claire and Lauren from The Inspired Treehouse sharing with you all today as part of the A-Z’s of Sensory Play for Kids series. Claire and Lauren are fellow therapy bloggers and they have some ideas for wheels sensory play for you.  W is for Wheels Bikes, scooters, roller blades, […]

Filed Under: Hands-On Activities Tagged With: Gross Motor, Preschool 3-5, Sensory

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Welcome to Growing Hands-On Kids, a site dedicated to parents, caregivers, educators, therapists or anyone who works with children. My name is Heather and I’m a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant with experience in school-based Occupational Therapy. I use my background to share child development tips, tools, and strategies through hands-on activities. You can read more about me by clicking here. I’m so glad to have you here!

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