20+ Fun Fall Teletherapy activities for kids
Looking for some new ideas for your teletherapy sessions without needing to spend countless hours scrolling social media? This post will provide you with all the links needed to use during your virtual sessions for the entire month. Whether you’re an OT, PT, SLP or teacher, you’ll find something to use to work on your child’s goals.
Now that the first month of school is behind us, I’m back into the swing of themed lesson planning.
Having lots of options for my virtual sessions is essential (as I’m sure most of you have found out too!)
In case you missed it, I explained how I structure my virtual Occupational Therapy sessions in this post!
The following is a list of activities that can be adapted for elementary aged students.
If you’re looking for tips on structuring your Early Intervention sessions, check out this post!
Finally, if you’re working with toddlers/preschoolers don’t miss the resources described at the bottom of this post.
20+ Fall Teletherapy Activities for school-aged children
Fine Motor and Visual Motor Teletherapy Ideas
Guided Halloween drawings: Use the images on screen share or just provide the tutorial yourself using a document camera.
How to draw a Pumpkin emoji: Video tutorial from Artforkidshub.com.
How to draw fall leaves: Video tutorial from Artforkidshub.com.
Visual Perceptual Teletherapy Ideas
Halloween puzzles: Can be easily graded from 4 pieces to 36 pieces.
Harvest Apples hidden picture: Great for working on figure ground and visual scanning skills.
Fall cleanup hidden picture: Great for working on figure ground and visual scanning skills.
Teletherapy Ideas for Handwriting
Halloween would you rather writing prompts: A fun way to get some writing practice.
Autumn word search: Great to work on visual scanning skills and short sentence writing.
Halloween word search: Great to work on visual scanning skills and short sentence writing.
Madlibs Halloween: Practice typing or writing your completed story while working on parts of speech.
Gross Motor Teletherapy Ideas
Go Noodle: Bones, bones, bones: Burn some energy, cross midline.
Pumpkin Workout: A great overall body workout and brain break.
Fall Yoga poses: 5 yoga poses paired with visual imagery.
Monster Moves: Good for older students.
Monster shuffle: Dance steps for younger students.
Teletherapy Games
Curious George Apple Picking: number identification, sequencing, visual saccades.
Personality Pumpkins: A great social-emotional game! Match the adjective to the pumpkin face.
Fall matching game: Build visual memory skills and attention with this digital memory game.
Teletherapy-friendly Crafts
Paper Spiderwebs: A challenging cutting activity.
Halloween paper plate: A classic and simple craft. Substitute paint for crayons/markers.
Masking tape mummy: Just need paper and tape. A great way to practice cutting and bilateral coordination skills!
Fall activities for toddlers and preschoolers
If you’re looking for some fun ways to engage preschool students via teletherapy, check out this Farm Animal google slide deck.
It comes ready to use with all the visuals and links for themed books, movement/music activities, fingerplays, fine motor activities, visual perceptual activities, yoga poses, and a social-emotional check-in.
Perfect for those looking for an easy way to structure your sessions and keep those little ones engaged. Customize the slides however you’d like to be able to use this one all month long! Geared for ages 3-6.
Purchase the Farm Animal slide deck here!
Looking for another option for younger students that requires limited materials?
Try using these fall themed book ideas to structure your in-person or teletherapy sessions and work on a variety of goals.
The books included in the October bundle include: Moo, Baa, La, La, La! by Sandra Boynton; Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman, and The little old lady who was not afraid of anything by Linda Williams.
The bundle includes a one page printable pdf for each book that includes a clickable link to the book on safe YouTube and simple fine motor, sensory motor and gross motor activities that require limited or no extra materials to accompany the story. The pdf files may be emailed and/or shared virtually with families. Geared for ages 2-5.
Purchase the October themed book activities here!
Bookmark this post for later
I hope this post leaves you feeling less stressed about planning your sessions this month.
Make sure to bookmark this page or pin to your Teletherapy board so you can look back at it all month.
Please don’t forget to share with teachers, therapists and parents that could use some new ideas this month.
