Summer Fun: Rain, Rain Go Away- Fun Anyway!

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Pocket Full of Therapy Product Highlight K Basketball: Basketball with your eyes closed! The dry erase surface depicts a basketball court, complete with men and a scoreboard.  The other side depicts half court with players lined up for foul shot.  Inside basketball on a rainy day!! Facebook Giveaway Next Week's FREE Facebook giveaway:  A Goldilocks Scissors and there will be 2 winners chosen! To Enter: "Like" us & "Share" the contest post.  Check back here and on our Weekly Specials page to see if you won and claim your prize.  That's it - Good Luck! The Facebook Winner for this week is: Melissa C from Happague, NY. Congratulations! Please email us at customerservice@pfot.com with your email information. She won a free copy of PFOT Paper Toys1. Got a pin we should know about? Email us and let us know! Rainy Day Fun Not everyday can be beautiful and sunny, I guess!  Here are some fun indoor rainy days activities to pass the time.  Pom Pom Poppers:   You need plastic cups, balloons, and some pom poms.  - Take your plastic cup and cut the bottom off.  Now take your balloon and cut a piece off the TOP.  - Now stretch your balloon to fit over the top of the cup and knot the end.  - Place a pom pom inside, pull the balloon knot and let go!!! - Make one for each player or take turns! - How far does your pom pom fly? Can you reach the garbage can or box placed about ten feet away? Who shot the farthest?  Great fine motor strengthening, bilateral coordination and planning activity.  You can also use marshmallows, cotton balls, or crumpled up pieces of paper.  Masking Tape Maze: Take a roll of masking tape and make a maze on your carpet, through your house, or even over your furniture.  How do you get through the maze without walking?  Can you bear crawl through the maze? - Or maybe work on oral motor strengthening and place a cotton ball or pom pom on the start now blow through a straw to move the cotton ball  to the end.  - You can always make a shorter maze, straighter maze, or longer maze.  Too hard on the floor- make a maze on the table.  Some More Simple and Fun Indoor Activities Gross motor, fine motor, visual motor, and sensory fun for a rainy day! Indoor Obstacle Courses- Use your couch pillows, chairs, tables, or rugs to jump over, on, through, crawl under.  Have your children plan and create it!! Plastic Bottle Bowling: Line up empty plastic bottles and bowl them down!  Change it up- backward bowling- You have to roll the ball between your legs while you are turned around! Color Scavenger Hunt: You have four minutes to run through the house and find as many blue items as you can and race back to start.  Add some memory recall and handwriting and have your children write down what they found when they return to start.   Switch it up- Find as many things as you can that start with the letter A! Make a Sensory Bin: Grab a large bowl and some uncooked rice or beans, fill the bowl at least half way.  No hide small items inside- legos, puzzle pieces, beads, or pom poms.  Can you find them with your eyes closed?  Already have a sensory bucket? Make an ooey, gooey bucket with a bowl full of shaving cream!   Compiled by Lisa Walker OTR You're receiving this because you subscribed or placed an order with Pocket Full of Therapy. We will NEVER share or sell your info. Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe Contact Us: (800) PFOT-124 (732) 462-4474 *An OT is always available to answer questions or assist in selecting the right item!

Summer Fun: Beach Day; $1 Shipping; Facebk Give-A-Way

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Pocket Full of Therapy Product Highlight Can't get to the beach?  Bring the beach to you with this great product.  My Sandbox is a portable 16 x 12 box, comes with sand, pattern making tools and a lid to contain everything.  The colorful bottom stands out when tracing letters, numbers, or shapes in the sand.  Item # T1151 Fun Tools to Use In The Sand Bug Tongs- Scoop up some sand and let it sift through the small holes.  Maybe yuo will find a treasure left behind! Jumbo Tweezer:  Just in case you find a sand crab or some other critter you don't want to pick up with your hands! This Week's Special $1.00 shipping on an order placed before Wednesday 7/22 at midnight!   Enter the code Beach2015 in the coupon code.  (*Qualifying orders totalling $40 or more; Shipped within the contiguous U.S; excludes drop ship items and those * indicated; most be entered at time of order) Facebook Contest This week's FREE Facebook giveaway will be a copy of our downloadable Paper Toys Book, 2 winners will be selected.  To enter. "Like" us and "Share" the contest post.  Check back here and on our Weekly Specials page to see if you won and claim your prize. That's it!! Summer Fun: Beach Day Fun in the Sun on the Sand may not always be so fun!  There is so much to bring with you and what do you do all day when you are sitting there.  And not to mention all the SAND!! Well here are some fun ideas to make your beach day a FUN one!    Don't Forget! Ask your child to make a list of things they need for the beach.  Here are a few key items to bring with you for your day at the beach Towels, umbrella, and sunscreen- of course A small bottle of baby powder- for those children who do not like the sand sticking to them sprikle some baby powder on their skin and the sand rubs right off! Shovels, pails, and sand toys- you can always bring old bowls, measuring cups, and spoons too.  Today my children scooped up sand with an empty Pringles chip container! Water and some snacks Fun Beach Games Seek and Find:  As you are walking around the beach, look for pebbles, rocks, shells, small pieces of wood.  You can use them for the following games. Sand Darts: Find a large, open area and draw a circle in the sand.  Now break up into teams.  You can have the shells vs. the rocks.  Standing about five feet away from the circle, try throwing your shell or rock into the circle.  Each one landing into the circle is one point but if it lands right in the center-five points!  Eye hand coordination, motor planning, turn taking, and a great way to interact with friends and family while you are on the beach.  Some changes to the game- Make the circle larger or smaller, make more than one circle and have each one be worth a different amount of points.  Stand farther or closer away to your target! Beach Tic Tac Toe: Draw a large tic tac toe board in the sand.  You can use your shells and rocks instead of X's and O's Make A Face: With your collections of shells, rocks, and drift wood- How many faces can you make?  Can you make your whole family?  Or maybe make more than a face, try making a whole body.    You can also practice letters and numbers.  Can you write your name?  Or your friend's name? How far in the alphabet can you get before running out of shells? Bucket Races:  All you need is a few buckets!  Set up your teams and let's race!  There are so many ways: - Sand races- Who can fill their buckets up to the top with sand first? Use your shovels or better yet your hands to fill the bucket to the top! Upper body strength, bilateral coordaintion as you scoop up the sand and motor planning.  - Sand Relay- Set up in teams, with the buckets about ten-fifteen feet away.  Scoop up some sand in your hands or shovel, now run to the bucket and drop it in.  Race back and tag your team mate, now it is their turn to scoop and run.  - Water races- Who can race to the water, fill their bucket and get back to the finish line first?  Gross motor strength and planning at work! This Weeks Facebook Winner is: Congrats to this week's Facebook winner! They won a "Therapy Tangle".  Please email us your contact info to claim your prize! Send to: customerservice@pfot.com Jennifer C. who went to Belivedere High School   Remember to "like" us to enter to win!   Newsletter Compiled by Lisa Walker OTR You're receiving this because you subscribed or placed an order with Pocket Full of Therapy. We will NEVER share or sell your info. Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe Contact Us: (800) PFOT-124 (732) 462-4474 *An OT is always available to answer questions or assist in selecting the right item!

Summer Fun: Water Fun

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Pocket Full of Therapy The Zipper:    This two player toy strengthens bilateral coordination, team work, timing, arm-hand strength and endurance, all while having fun!  Soft 5" ball with 7 feet of string.  Even better- It can get WET!! Dip your Zipper into water and zoom back and forth.  How many times can you zip as fast as you can?  On sale: $9.95 To enter: "Like" us and "Share" the contest post.  That's It!! Winners will be posted here and on PFOT's Weekly Specials page next Friday.  This week's giveaway is: Therapy Tangle And last weeks winners are: Elaine B-E from Libertyville, IL Mindy R from Muskegon, MI Christy W from NY, NY Each won a "Twist-up Pencil Again". Please email us your contact info to claim your prize! Send to: customerservice@pfot.com Summer Fun: Water Games Whether you have a sprinkler, pool, or just some buckets of water, there are so many ways to stay cool in the hot summer weather.  Water play can be a very motivating way to secretly work on motor skills all while staying cool.  Here are some fun ways to start! Water Fun With A Hose: Water Limbo: Turn your hose on and line up the children! How low can they go?  Hold your hose up high and have them walk underneath- Did they get wet?  Once everyone is through, lower the hose.  Keep going until your children can't get any lower!  Motor planning and coordination are at work as they try to figure out a way to get under that stream of water without getting wet.  Water Jump: Turn on your hose and hold it close to the ground, you can move it back and forth so the stream of water looks like a slithering snake or to make it easier keep the stream of water straight.  Now have your childeren line up and just the opposite as water limbo, now they have to jump over the water.  How high can they jump? If the stream is moving, can they plan their jump so they don't get hit with water? Water Fun With A Spray Bottle Balloon/Ball Blast: Get those small hand muscles moving and have your child strengthening fine motor skills without even realizing they are working.  Blow up a few balloons and place them inside a hula hoop or make a circle with a large piece of string.  Now place the balloons inside (the smaller the balloon the harder it will be).  Now with a spray bottle or water gun, have your child race to empty the circle.  Squirt at those balloons until they are all out!  Make it a little harder and have an opponent squirting the balloons back in as one is trying to get them out. Add a timer and see which player has the most balloons in or out of the circle when time is up!   Squirt Away or Water Tag: Play just like any other game of tag but instead of touching to tag you have to get close and squirt to be "it".  Gross and fine motor workout in one! Water Fun with Water Balloons Water Balloon "Hot Potato":  Fill some water balloons, have your children sit in a circle but instead of music playing while passing the balloon poke a pin hole in the balloon.  Keep passing until the balloon is empty! Whoever gets stuck with the empty balloon, sits out the next game.  Have fun and cool off at the same time!! Water Balloon Cooperative Volleyball: You need a bunch of water balloons and one towel per two children. Have children pair up and hold each end of a towel, now place a water balloon in the towel and working together send it over to the other team to catch in their towel. Team work, coordination, and motor planning all in one!  Volleyball too difficult? Have some cooperative relay races.  While partners hold a towel with a balloon in it, they have to run to the next pair and hand off the towel without dropping the balloon.                                                            Compiled by Lisa Walker OTR     You're receiving this because you subscribed or placed an order with Pocket Full of Therapy. We will NEVER share or sell your info. Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe Contact Us: (800) PFOT-124 (732) 462-4474 *An OT is always available to answer questions or assist in selecting the right item!