Alerting Foods for Oral Sensory Input

Alerting Foods for Oral Sensory Input that help to wake up a child's senses, attention, and focus through proprioceptive and oral motor input.
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Ice Cream Cone Snack
Preschool color activities like this Bear Sees Colors Activity makes learning colors in preschool fun…a fun color snack with a book makes the concepts really stick for kids. Make this color snack with the kiddos to develop motor skills. Then, go on a color search as a fun way to teach colors but also promote visual discrimination skills, helping them to identify visual differences that necessary skills for reading and writing.
Fun Kids Food
Find out how easy it is to make these one bowl banana blueberry granola bars. Delicious breakfast or snack for kids! #helloyummy
Color Snack Kids Can Make - The OT Toolbox
Preschool color activities like this Bear Sees Colors Activity makes learning colors in preschool fun…a fun color snack with a book makes the concepts really stick for kids. Make this color snack with the kiddos to develop motor skills. Then, go on a color search as a fun way to teach colors but also promote visual discrimination skills, helping them to identify visual differences that necessary skills for reading and writing.
Oral Motor Activities for Summer - The OT Toolbox
Sometimes the kids need an outdoor challenge to get moving and add active play to their day. I’m really excited to add a new activity challenge here on The OT Toolbox website. It’s a fun summer activity for the whole family and can be used to help kids stay active and build skills. This list ... Read More about Oral Motor Activities for Summer
Cooking with Kids and Hand Skills - The OT Toolbox
Cooking with kids helps children learn and develop motor skills and learning tasks through cooking activities.
How to Support Sensory Needs in the Cafeteria
The school cafeteria is a busy place. For the individual with sensory processing challenges, this can be overwhelming and stressful. Here are tips and tools for navigating the cafeteria with sensory needs.
Flower Snacks - The OT Toolbox
These flower snacks are fun and super easy to create with kids and build fine motor skills in the kitchen. If you are looking for creating ways to add healthy snacks into a child’s diet, these flower themed snacks are just that. Add these cooking with kids activities to your Spring occupational therapy toolbox.
Cooking with Kids and Hand Skills - The OT Toolbox
Hand skills are motor development areas that kids need for tasks requiring dexterity, coordination, and other fine motor areas. These kitchen hand skills are ways to build motor tasks through cooking activities.
Cooking with Kids and Hand Skills - The OT Toolbox
Did you know you can work on hands skills with cooking with kids activities? It’s true! In fact, cooking with kids can help kids build hand skills both in the kitchen and out. Actually, using arts and craft activities with kids can build the hand skills kids need for not only kitchen activities, but for ... Read More about Cooking with Kids and Hand Skills
Space Activities for Kids - The OT Toolbox
Outer Space Theme Learn and Play - The OT Toolbox
Flower Snacks - The OT Toolbox
These flower snacks are fun and super easy to create with kids and build fine motor skills in the kitchen. If you are looking for creating ways to add healthy snacks into a child’s diet, these flower themed snacks are just that. Add these cooking with kids activities to your Spring occupational therapy toolbox.
Bird Food Energy Bites | Eating Bird Food
Eat like a bird with these bird food energy bites! Made with whole grain oats, nuts, seeds and dried fruit, these bites are a nutrient-rich treat perfect for on-the-go snacking. Vegan + gluten-free.
Granola Bars
These chewy homemade granola bars are packed with chocolate and peanut butter. Soft, chewy, and so easy too! #recipe #granola #snacks