Gross Motor Seasonal Skills for Success: Fall Edition – October

Welcome the new school year with Gross Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – October! This engaging resource is designed to help students build important gross motor skills through fun, fall-themed movement activities.

With activities that support balance, coordination, motor planning, strength, bilateral coordination, and body awareness, students can move, learn, and build confidence throughout the school day.

Perfect for school-based PTs, OT’s, teachers, and other educational professionals. This resource can be used for:

• Individual or small-group therapy

• Classroom movement breaks

• Motor stations

• Tier 1 and MTSS supports

• Home practice

Activities are designed with a range of abilities in mind, making it easy to support students as they progress toward greater participation, independence, and success at school.

Bring purposeful movement into October with fun, engaging gross motor activities that help students thrive!

Motor Path Activities | Gross Motor, Coordination & Classroom Movement

Create purposeful movement opportunities throughout your school, therapy space, or classroom with this collection of ready-to-use motor path activities.

These activities are designed to give students a clear movement choice with a defined beginning and end, making them easy to incorporate into hallway motor paths, sensory-motor breaks, therapy sessions, classroom transitions, and movement stations.

Students can practice a variety of skills through activities such as balance walking, crossing midline, jumping patterns, wall push-ups, side stepping, animal walks, tracing visual paths, alphabet activities, bean bag challenges, body awareness activities, and more.

Activities can be adapted to meet different student needs by changing the amount of adult support, number of repetitions, movement challenge, or materials used.

Skills supported include:

• Gross motor coordination

• Motor planning

• Bilateral coordination

• Crossing midline

• Balance

• Upper-body and core strength

• Visual-motor integration

• Body awareness

• Following directions

• Sequencing and attention

• Self-regulation through purposeful movement

Designed with preschool and elementary learners in mind, including students in special education, OT/PT services, and inclusive classrooms.

Simply print, laminate, set up, and move! Use the activities individually or combine several to create a customized motor path that works for your students and your space.

Great for: school-based OT/PT • preschool & elementary classrooms • special education • sensory-motor rooms • hallways • movement breaks • small groups • individual therapy sessions.

Exploring the Farm: Pumpkins & Apples
Move, count, and create together!

Bring fall learning to life with playful activities that support fine motor, gross motor, coordination, counting, and following directions.

Includes:

• Two Google Slides activities: Catching an Apple and Marching in a Pumpkin Patch, with whole-group and small-group options.

• Video models: Movement, dauber counting, ball rolling, and calming activities.

• Two errorless crafts: Apple basket and tractor/hay crafts with four levels of material options.

• Four levels of fall dauber counting printables.

Perfect for classroom groups, therapy sessions, and OT/PT push-in activities. Flexible options help students with different abilities participate together.

Digital resource. No physical materials will be shipped.

Matching Motor Path Activities

Turn simple matching into a closed-ended motor activity with a clear start, finish, and reset. These printable matching sets are designed to help therapists and teachers add purpose and repetition to motor paths, sensory-motor stations, and gross motor activities.

This resource includes 3 related-picture matching activities—bus to school, apple to apple tree, and hay bales to tractor—with 4 repetitions per set, plus 8 fall-themed identical picture matches.

Place matching pictures at opposite ends of a movement route. Students carry a picture while completing a motor activity, match it at the destination, and repeat. Because copies are available at both ends, the activity is ready for the next student without having to completely reset the station.

Use with activities such as crawling, crash-pad work, steam roller activities, balance paths, scooter activities, jumping, or other motor challenges that fit your students and space.

Targets: motor planning • gross motor skills • visual matching • attention • following directions • task completion • purposeful repetition

Great for: preschool and elementary special education classrooms, OT/PT sessions, motor rooms, sensory-motor stations, and small groups.

Apple Subitize Match | Number & Quantity Matching 1–10

Build early math skills while adding hands-on fine motor and movement practice with this Apple Subitize Match activity!

Students match numbered apples 1–10 to the corresponding apple seed quantities. The activity can be used as a tabletop matching task or expanded into a gross motor activity by placing the numbered apples across the room and having students move to retrieve and match each one.

This resource supports number recognition, counting, subitizing, visual scanning, visual discrimination, fine motor coordination, bilateral hand use, hand-eye coordination, and motor planning.

For smaller quantities, students can practice subitizing—recognizing how many items are present without counting each one. Larger quantities encourage counting and recognizing groups of five plus additional seeds.

Simply print, laminate, cut out the numbered apples, and add Velcro to create a reusable activity for classroom or therapy use.

Great for preschool, kindergarten, special education classrooms, OT/PT sessions, small groups, centers, and individual therapy sessions.

Includes:

• Apple seed quantity matching mat for numbers 1–10

• Numbered apple pieces 1–10

• Setup and activity instructions

• Gross motor extension ideas

Print • Prep • Match • Move!

Bring learning to life with engaging, ready-to-use seasonal activities for September through December! The Seasonal Success Bundle targets foundational fine motor, gross motor, visual motor, pre-literacy, coordination, balance, and motor-planning skills that support classroom success.

Students build skills through repeated practice using fun monthly themes, helping promote carryover and generalization across settings.

The bundle includes 7+ activity types, including clothespin fine motor tasks, pre-reading and pre-writing activities, motor coordination challenges, visual motor ball activities, and themed jumping and throwing activities.

Activities are organized across Levels 1–3, making it easy to differentiate and increase challenge as students progress.

Perfect for OT, PT, MTSS, special education, classrooms, centers, and small groups—with minimal prep and plenty of ways to extend learning beyond therapy sessions.

Gross Motor Seasonal Skills for Success: Fall Edition – September

Welcome the new school year with Gross Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – September! This engaging resource is designed to help students build important gross motor skills through fun, fall-themed movement activities.

With activities that support balance, coordination, motor planning, strength, bilateral coordination, and body awareness, students can move, learn, and build confidence throughout the school day.

Perfect for school-based PTs, OT’s, teachers, and other educational professionals. This resource can be used for:

• Individual or small-group therapy

• Classroom movement breaks

• Motor stations

• Tier 1 and MTSS supports

• Home practice

Activities are designed with a range of abilities in mind, making it easy to support students as they progress toward greater participation, independence, and success at school.

Bring purposeful movement into September with fun, engaging gross motor activities that help students thrive!

Gross Motor Seasonal Skills for Success: Fall Edition – November

Welcome the new school year with Gross Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – November! This engaging resource is designed to help students build important gross motor skills through fun, fall-themed movement activities.

With activities that support balance, coordination, motor planning, strength, bilateral coordination, and body awareness, students can move, learn, and build confidence throughout the school day.

Perfect for school-based PTs, OT’s, teachers, and other educational professionals. This resource can be used for:

• Individual or small-group therapy

• Classroom movement breaks

• Motor stations

• Tier 1 and MTSS supports

• Home practice

Activities are designed with a range of abilities in mind, making it easy to support students as they progress toward greater participation, independence, and success at school.

Bring purposeful movement into November with fun, engaging gross motor activities that help students thrive!

Fine Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition - December

Welcome the new school year with Fine Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – December! This engaging resource is designed to help students develop essential fine motor skills through fun, seasonal, hands-on activities.

With September-themed activities that support fine motor strength, bilateral coordination, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, grasp development, and visual motor skills, students can build confidence while having fun.

Perfect for school-based OTs, teachers, and other educational professionals, this resource can be used for:

• Individual or small-group therapy

• Classroom centers and stations

• Fine motor practice

• Tier 1 and MTSS supports

• Morning work or movement breaks

• Home practice

Activities are designed to support a range of skill levels, making it easy to promote participation, independence, and success throughout the school day.

Bring purposeful fine motor practice into December with fun, engaging seasonal activities that help students learn, create, and thrive!

Fine Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition –October

Welcome the new school year with Fine Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – October! This engaging resource is designed to help students develop essential fine motor skills through fun, seasonal, hands-on activities.

With September-themed activities that support fine motor strength, bilateral coordination, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, grasp development, and visual motor skills, students can build confidence while having fun.

Perfect for school-based OTs, teachers, and other educational professionals, this resource can be used for:

• Individual or small-group therapy

• Classroom centers and stations

• Fine motor practice

• Tier 1 and MTSS supports

• Morning work or movement breaks

• Home practice

Activities are designed to support a range of skill levels, making it easy to promote participation, independence, and success throughout the school day.

Bring purposeful fine motor practice into October with fun, engaging seasonal activities that help students learn, create, and thrive!

Fine Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – September

Welcome the new school year with Fine Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – September! This engaging resource is designed to help students develop essential fine motor skills through fun, seasonal, hands-on activities.

With September-themed activities that support fine motor strength, bilateral coordination, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, grasp development, and visual motor skills, students can build confidence while having fun.

Perfect for school-based OTs, teachers, and other educational professionals, this resource can be used for:

• Individual or small-group therapy

• Classroom centers and stations

• Fine motor practice

• Tier 1 and MTSS supports

• Morning work or movement breaks

• Home practice

Activities are designed to support a range of skill levels, making it easy to promote participation, independence, and success throughout the school day.

Bring purposeful fine motor practice into September with fun, engaging seasonal activities that help students learn, create, and thrive!

Fine Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition - November

Welcome the new school year with Fine Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – November! This engaging resource is designed to help students develop essential fine motor skills through fun, seasonal, hands-on activities.

With September-themed activities that support fine motor strength, bilateral coordination, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, grasp development, and visual motor skills, students can build confidence while having fun.

Perfect for school-based OTs, teachers, and other educational professionals, this resource can be used for:

• Individual or small-group therapy

• Classroom centers and stations

• Fine motor practice

• Tier 1 and MTSS supports

• Morning work or movement breaks

• Home practice

Activities are designed to support a range of skill levels, making it easy to promote participation, independence, and success throughout the school day.

Bring purposeful fine motor practice into November with fun, engaging seasonal activities that help students learn, create, and thrive!

Leveled Pre-Writing Worksheets

One download. Every student. Endless use.

Save time with adaptable pre-writing activities designed for students of all ability levels. Use the same resource across your caseload, classroom, or home while building pencil control, visual motor, and foundational writing skills.

💜 Less planning. More progress. Reuse all year long.

Grow skills, not your workload.

Marvin Yoga Cards introduce and reinforce yoga poses through fun, engaging movement. Each oversized card features a colorful Marvin pose on the front and the pose name on the back, making them perfect for teaching new poses, encouraging independence, and creating customized yoga flows. Ideal for therapy sessions, classroom brain breaks, movement centers, small groups, home practice, and children's yoga classes, these cards promote balance, coordination, body awareness, motor planning, flexibility, and self-regulation for learners of all abilities. Multiple Uses: Use individually, in small groups, or combine cards to create engaging yoga sequences with Marvin the Monster!

Gross Motor Seasonal Skills for Success: Fall Edition – December

Welcome the new school year with Gross Motor Schools for Success: Fall Edition – December! This engaging resource is designed to help students build important gross motor skills through fun, fall-themed movement activities.

With activities that support balance, coordination, motor planning, strength, bilateral coordination, and body awareness, students can move, learn, and build confidence throughout the school day.

Perfect for school-based PTs, OT’s, teachers, and other educational professionals. This resource can be used for:

• Individual or small-group therapy

• Classroom movement breaks

• Motor stations

• Tier 1 and MTSS supports

• Home practice

Activities are designed with a range of abilities in mind, making it easy to support students as they progress toward greater participation, independence, and success at school.

Bring purposeful movement into December with fun, engaging gross motor activities that help students thrive!

Pumpkin Alphabet Matching – OT & PT Activity

Make letter learning fun with a seasonal twist! 🎃 This versatile activity targets uppercase and lowercase letter matching, visual scanning, fine motor skills, letter formation, balance, coordination, and motor planning.

Featuring 4 progressive motor levels, students can practice matching letters through tabletop activities, obstacle courses, balance challenges, and interactive movement games using the Wheel of Names.

Perfect for school-based OT, PT, small groups, and classroom activities!

Developmental Progression Framework & Checklist

Small steps. Meaningful progress.

Some students make meaningful motor gains that traditional developmental checklists may overlook. Created by a school-based OT and PT, this practical resource breaks six school-related motor skills into smaller, achievable steps—helping teams recognize current abilities, plan intervention, and document growth toward functional school participation.

Six Featured Skill Areas

Gross Motor

• Seated Positioning: Maintaining seated positions during academic tasks.

• Single-Leg Balance: Supporting access to steps, playground equipment, and dressing for toileting.

• Mobilizing: Walking, propelling, running, rolling, or crawling to navigate school environments and keep up with peers.

Fine Motor

• Grasp & Tool Use: Grasping and manipulating classroom tools and materials.

• Pre-Writing & Handwriting: Building skills for classroom assignments and written communication.

• Scissor Skills: Developing the grasp and control needed for classroom cutting activities.

What’s Included

Developmental Progression Framework: Each skill area includes Levels 1A/1B, 2A/2B, and 3A/3B, with suggested IEP goals, treatment ideas, and classroom carryover suggestions. Bonus level-specific guidance highlights strategies and priorities for students at different ability levels.

Developmental Checklist: A companion tool covering the same six skill areas across four ability levels, with treatment activities to support intervention planning.

Use These Resources To:

• Identify a student’s current skills and next achievable steps.

• Recognize and document small, meaningful gains.

• Connect foundational motor skills to everyday school participation.

• Support collaboration across therapy, classroom, and home.

• Guide discussions about intervention strategies and skill priorities.

Designed for school-based OTs and PTs, with practical ideas to share with educators and families.

This resource is a guide and does not replace individualized evaluation or OT/PT clinical judgment. Suggested goals and activities should be adapted to each student’s abilities, educational needs, and IEP team decisions.

Absolutely — here’s clean copy you can use on the Squarespace freebie page:

FREE Follow the Path to School Motor Activity

Help students build motor skills with this simple, adaptable Follow the Path to School activity.

Students follow the path to help the school bus reach the school while using different tools and levels of support. The activity can be used during therapy, classroom movement breaks, motor groups, or individual sessions.

Skills Supported

• Bilateral coordination

• Visual tracking

• Upper-extremity strength

• Motor planning

• Hand-eye coordination

• Attention and following directions

4 Levels of Challenge

Level 1: Trace the path using 1–2 fingers.

Level 2: Trace the path using a pointer.

Level 3: Follow the path using a small ball or playground ball with one or two hands.

Level 4: Follow the path using a 5-lb weighted ball.

This makes it easy to adjust the activity based on the student’s abilities, level of support, and motor needs.

Great For

Preschool • Kindergarten • Special Education • School-Based OT/PT • Motor Groups • Classroom Movement Activities

FREE Video Included

Follow along with our Follow the Path to School video for an easy visual model of the activity.

Watch the free video:
https://youtu.be/zWLI___wKlE?si=83heGV41LbGHlVdw

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