Marshmallow Dough Recipe: 6 large marshmallows 3+ tbsp of corn starch 2 tsp coconut oil (Other oils will also work) Food coloring (Several drops) Note: You will also need a microwave 1. Combine all ingredients and melt the marshmallows, about thirty seconds. 2. Carefully remove the bowl from the microwave and mix with spoon. When cool, start mixing with your hands. 3. If the dough is too sticky, add a little cornstarch Fun, sticky, and tastes good too!

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Marshmellow Fun: All you need is a bag of marshmellow and some toothpicks. See what you can create. Can you make letters? numbers? shapes? - You can also use your marshmellows to paint!

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Who says you have to follow the directions? Here are some other ways to play with cup stackers. - Stack the cups in a pyramid and propel your scooter into them trying to knock it down - Stack the cups into a pyramid and lying prone in front of the pyramid blow and try to knock the cups down. - Roll or throw a ball into the pyramid trying to knock down the pyramid

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Did you know? The World Sport Stacking Association (WSSA) was formed in 2001 for the purpose of promoting and governing sport stacking around the world. The association was originally titled World Cup Stacking Association (WCSA). In 2005, the name was changed to its current WSSA in response to growing awareness that stacking is considered a sport.

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Let's Lace! - Long Tipped laces: For beginners- the tip of your lace should be at least as long as the bead, so the string goes through quickly & easily, without needing to be pushed in several times. Or try a long lacing needle. - Pipe cleaners are great for firm, but flexible stringing. - Bead sticks- Don't use laces, but still placing a bead. - String Fruit Loops to make a "Lucky Rainbow" maybe there will be a pot of gold at the end! (Maybe gold chocolate coins?)

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Fruit Loop Lacing Fun: Pipe cleaners and some fruit loops. Lace the rainbow.

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Fun lunchbox joke for tomorrow: . What kind of bow can't be tied? -- A Rainbow

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Exercise Egg Group! All you need are some plastic eggs. In each egg write an exercise, now put them in the basket at the end of the obstacle course. Set up the obstacle course, when your child gets to the end, pick an egg, open it and complete the exercise inside.

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Hula Hoop Hopscotch: Place some hula hoops, one then two then one then two hoops. Have your child throw a bean bag in one of the hoops. Now jump in each hoop, skipping over the one that the bean bag landed in. Turn around and jump back to the beginning. On your way back don't forget to pick up the bean bag!

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Did You Know? The original price of the hoop in 1958 was $1.98 At the height of their popularity, Wham-O manufactured 20,000 hoops a day.

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Dr. Seuss books are filled with rhymes. How many rhymes can you write down?

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Cat-Hat, Hop-Pop Work as a team to find the matches. Set up your room with rhyming words taped to the floor, walls, door. Now as a team work to find the matches and write them down!

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Dr. Seuss Birthday Activities and Fun

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Pocket Full of Therapy Dr. Seuss Product Highlight Join all “The Cat in the Hat” Characters to play this activity card game. On each turn a player flips over 3 of the 24 activity cards. When 1 red, 1 yellow and 1 blue card is turned over you have created a new challenge to try. Maybe you have to dance around a chair with the fish between your knees or jump to a door with the fish under your chin. Great group or family game. Builds motor planning, coordination, endurance and general game playing skills. For All Our Parents Here is a fun and healthy snack idea for next week! Draw Cat in the Hat with a Sharpee on your child's cheese stick! Messy Play Fun All you need is corn starch and water! Mix equal parts in a bowl or on a tray.  Is it a liquid or a solid? Can you write a letter before it disappears? Can you draw a shape? Scoop it up and pour into a friends hand- Can they catch all of it? Come visit us at AOTA in Chicago this April! Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Dr. Seuss Did You Know? 1. Theodore “Ted” Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts, “Seuss” was also his mother’s maiden name. 2. Dr. Seuss’ editor Bennett Cerf bet him he couldn’t write a book using 50 or fewer words. The result is 1960’s “Green Eggs and Ham.” 3.  Dr. Seuss has an even bigger impact on pop culture than you might think. The first recorded instance of the word “nerd” is in Seuss’ ‘If I Ran the Zoo’ published in 1950. Let's Celebrate Let's draw Cat In the Hat! Follow these visual cues to draw the Cat! Too many steps or too difficult? Try this fun Cat In the Hat craft. Paper plates, tissue paper or construction paper, and crayons is all you need to make this fun Cat In The Hat craft.  1. Color the outside of the paper plate black and draw a face in the middle.  2. Work on pattern copying while making his hat.  Use red tissue paper, rip into small pieces and crumple to promote hand skills.  Or you can color every other stripe red and white or practice cutting and cut stripes of red and white paper then glue to a hat shape.  Hop-Pop, Cat-Hat Group Activity Rhyming is the key to Dr. Seuss books! Tape pieces of paper on the floor, on  the paper/tape write words (hat, cat, hop, pop, hit, sit, lap, tap, dog, log, tin, pin).  You can use one set of rhyming words or too make the activity a little more interesting, add multiple rhyming words. -Pair up in teams of two. - Now one team member has to pick a word and the other has to find the rhyming word.  The team member standing on the word can call out the word and try to help their partner.  - Teams take turns finding a match until all words are gone.  - Once all the words are used by the students in your group, ask one student to switch their spot.  Now there partner has to find the matching rhyme word and move to it.  - A different way to play- give each team a word- When you say go they have to move toward the word and it's rhyming word- Who can get there first? Team work, socialization, and motor skills.  If finding rhyming words is too difficult, use upper case and lower case letters instead.  Work on math skills, with equations written on one card and the answer on another.  So 4-2 is on one card and your teammate has to find the answer, 2 and stand on it.  Add animal walks, hopping, or jumping to you cards instead of walking! 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!

Coffee Filter Activity: Take a coffee filter and color it with Magic marker, any color or combination of color, now spray it with a water bottle. the colors will blend and look tie dyed. Pinch in the middle and make a butterfly or bunch together at the bottom and make a flower.

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Story Starter: Inspiration for handwriting practice or creative writing/thinking. Try it next time you find yourself waiting in line or in traffic or need an idea to write about.

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Have a dressing relay race!  Standing in one spot with a pile of clothes, who can get dressed first? Of course, make sure clothes are large enough that they fit over what your children wear to school.

Not Just a Cup!

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Pocket Full of Therapy Valentine's Day Special Place an order before Monday at midnight and receive $10.00 off.  Use code "10val" Minimum order $50.00, orders shipped within the contiguous U.S. Not valid on drop shipments.  Another Awesome Cup Product What is Speed Stacks? Speed Stacks is a set of 12 specially designed plastic cups used to participate in one of the simplest most therapeutic and readily assessable sports around. Sport stacking is what you do with the cups! IAs a therapeutic tool you can also have Speed stacks races or use the cups and your imagination to create a wide variety of constructions. A highly motivating tool for improving bilateral coordination, response speed, upper extremity stability and midrange control, crossing midline, as well as overall endurance and coordination. Not Just A Cup How many activities can you do with a simple cup or two?  Here are just a few and all you need are some plastic cups! 1. Stack a cup pyramid- Place five on the bottom, then four on top, three, two then one.  How do you knock it down?  Use your motor planning skills, upper body and trunk strength and control! - Lying prone on a scooterboard- Ready, Set, Go! Can your child      knock down the pyramid in one push of the scooter? Try sitting up if using your arms is too difficult.  - Laying on your stomach in front of the pyramid- Can your child blow the cups down? Try using a straw to blow the cups down.  Upper body, neck, trunk strength and oral motor control at work here! - Sitting or standing in front of the pyramid- Go bowling! Roll or bounce a ball, or crumple up paper and try to knock them down! Bilateral coordination, motor planning, and strength all in one activity! 2. Cup miniature golf- Miniature golf anywhere! All you need is a cup as the hole and a ping pong ball! Can you get a hole in one? How is that eye hand coordination? 3. Cup Stack with a Twist- Write a letter on the outside of each cup.  Now have your child stack the cups in order from A to Z, write a word on the board, have them find the letters and stack!  Visual motor skills at work! Try any of these activities during group or as a team.  Work together to set up the pyramid or relay race to knock them down! Product Highlight Cup-A-Cup is a fun, clever way to work on visual processing and response speed. Game includes 9 cups each with a circle, square or triangle, in blue, yellow or red, printed on the bottom. The two dice are marked with those same shapes and colors.  So the object is to be the first player to grab the cup whose bottom shape completes the set indicated by the throw on the dice. If a red circle and a red square are thrown all players should be racing for the red triangle cup. And if a yellow square and blue triangle are thrown, be the first to pick up the red circle. First person to collect 4 cups is the winner! After the game is over, try stacking the cups. It is a fun and very motivating way to build arm, shoulder and trunk stability and control. 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!

Let's Do Some Laundry!

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Pocket Full of Therapy Product Highlight Monster Laundry: It’s hard to keep the monsters and their clothes clean and sorted…but that’s where we all come in. Players work as fast as they can to sort through all the laundry piles for monsters that match their color clothespins. If they are the first to hang all 8 of their monsters up on the line, they grab a golden clothespin and say “Monsters Stop.” But check carefully, all monsters in spotted clothes get attached to the clothesline on the player’s right and if the monsters clothes have stars they get hung out to dry on the left hand side. Weekly Special Enjoy free copy of our "Picture Search and Paper Folding Sampler". Remember to ENTER "pic" in the coupon box when checking out. We will then email you a copy when the order is processed. ($35 min order - EXPIRES 5pm est on 2/4/16 Friday. Must be applied at time of order.) Let's Do Some Laundry Who says doing laundry can't be fun? There are so many different activities you can do with some laundry, whether it is a group or individual session.  Here are a few! Laundry Obstacle: You need larger clothing that will fit over your child's and obstacle course equipment.  Practice dressing while participating in sensory motor obstacle.   After setting up the obstacle course, place articles of clothing at each spot. To start your child has to put on a button down shirt, once the shirt is on and buttoned, jump five times forward.  Now stop and put on and button pants, then walk across the balance beam.  Now pull on a pair of socks and crawl through a tunnel.  At the end of the tunnel put on a pair of shoes! Motor planning, dressing, bilateral coordination and fine motor manipulation all in one course!! Too many steps?  Instead of an obstacle course have a dressing relay race.  Standing in one spot with a pile of clothes, who can get dressed first? Of course, make sure clothes are large enough that they fit over what your children wear to school. Match and Fold Relay: Bring your clean socks to group! Place a pile of socks in the middle of your children, now have two at a time find a matching pair and roll them together.  When they finished have the next child take a turn.  Move along the line until all of the socks are gone or all the children have had a turn.  Instead of rolling the socks, hang up a clothesline, find the match and squeeze a clothespin to hang the pair on the clothing line.  Letter Laundry:  You can either write the alphabet on pieces of paper, or use the bulletin board letter cut outs.  You can string or clothespin the letters to the clothesline.  Here are a few different ways to play! - Make a second copy of the letters and place them around the room, your child has to find a letter and clothespin it to the hanging letter -Have different pictures around the room, now your child has to take the picture and clothespin it to the matching starting letters - Instead of letters, you can use numbers, shapes, or words! 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!

SNOW!!! Even If It Isn't Coming Your Way

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Pocket Full of Therapy Snow Ice Cream Collect some clean snow! Here is a yummy recipe for snow ice cream.  Ingredients: 1 cup of milk, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, a pinch of salt, and 8 cups of snow! 1. Prepare ingredients. 2. Whisk sugar, vanilla, milk and salt together. 3. Now mix in your snow 4. Enjoy! Product Highlight: Insta Snow Feeling warm or sluggish today? Add a little water to some Insta Snow ™ powder and watch it erupt into a mound of the fluffy, cool stuff. Have fun making snowballs, snowmen, cold packs or slush. An amazing sensory wake up activity. Makes approximately 3-4 gallons, enough for a sensory bin   Now On Sale! Falling From The Sky or Not- Let's Play In the Snow Here in the Northeast the snow is coming- What to do??  For those of you in the nice warm weather, you can still play in the snow!  Here are some fun and snowy activities to do with your children! 1. Snowball Fight For Everyone: All you need is some paper or tissue paper.  Work on your fine motor strength, crumbling a piece of paper into a ball.  Make as many as you can.  Now start throwing!!!  Make obstacles or barriers to protect yourself.  Don't want to throw at each other? Try shooting snowball baskets using your trash can or laundry basket.  2. Jack Frost Game: GROUP ACTIVITY!! Materials: Draw a picture of a snow ball, snowflake and icicle shapes on paper, also need chairs or carpet squares, or tape marker for each player.  Divide your children into 3 groups (the snowballs, snowflakes, and the icicles) Tape one labeled paper shape on each child to indicate what group they are a part of.  Have your children sit on their spot.   One student is Jack Frost, have him/her stand in the center of the circle.  Remove Jack Frost's spot, so there is one less then the amount of children playing.  (No one is being eliminated!) Start by having Jack Frost call out ONE of the group names- such as snowflakes.  When they hear their group called, they have to stand up and run to another chair.  At the same time, Jack Frost tries to get into one of the empty spots.  Whoever is not sitting down is the New Jack Frost.  If Jack Frost calls "Snowstorm" everyone gets up and shuffles! Motor planning, attention, socialization, and sensory processing all in one group activity! 3. Indoor Ice Skating: Messy or Non Messy       For the non messy version; clear an area on a rug or floor, and tape wax paper to the bottoms of your children's shoes.  Let them skate around the room.  Skate in pairs or skate back ward.  Instead of wax paper you can also glide on felt squares to skate around.       Messy Version; You will need mats to cover the floors, in case anyone falls.  Spray shaving cream on the mats, after taking your children's shoes and socks off, jump in and start skating.  Either activity provides motor planning, sensory input, coordination, and Fun!!!   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!