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<blockquote data-quote="Tiapet" data-source="post: 611291" data-attributes="member: 455"><p>Ok I'm back and have a bunch of ideas for you now: Boy - you mentioned he has issues with fine motor skils. You can take a hole punch and punch out holes in paper or card stock and use a shoe lace and have him lace through the holes as practice as he "creates" a picture via the holes you have punched out. It will also work with his perfectionism as he will be able to do so but won't realize he is "fine tuning" his skills doing it. Simply catching and throwing a ball helps with that too. Something your other half can engage with him for one on one time. This is really good skill for him to have later in life for other sports or activities socially. Varying the size of the ball from big to small fine tunes it. If you are going to have him around continuously, like it sounds, maybe a cheap bag of sand to play in some area. You can use plastic containers to improvise for him to play with or some hotwheels type cars he might have with him or get. For the girl- do you have an area where you can allow her to make a hopscotch board? Or even just drawing with the chalk? (another dollar store item chalk and bean bag). If you have a bunch of old magazines she could cut out pictures and "create" a story with them much like what you were saying with the picture taking too. Or she could create a "wish" book or any other kind of scrap book with the pictures. String bracelet making. Have a picnic (you could do it with both, your other half with the boy, you with the girl). For both of them you can make pine cone bird feeders if you have pine cones (roll them in honey and then bird seed), make home made playdough recipes are online or flubber stuff which is like slime. Kids of all ages love it even teens. I have so many more and don't want to over whelm you but family fun magazine, which you can find online has a lot of ideas to. Hope it helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tiapet, post: 611291, member: 455"] Ok I'm back and have a bunch of ideas for you now: Boy - you mentioned he has issues with fine motor skils. You can take a hole punch and punch out holes in paper or card stock and use a shoe lace and have him lace through the holes as practice as he "creates" a picture via the holes you have punched out. It will also work with his perfectionism as he will be able to do so but won't realize he is "fine tuning" his skills doing it. Simply catching and throwing a ball helps with that too. Something your other half can engage with him for one on one time. This is really good skill for him to have later in life for other sports or activities socially. Varying the size of the ball from big to small fine tunes it. If you are going to have him around continuously, like it sounds, maybe a cheap bag of sand to play in some area. You can use plastic containers to improvise for him to play with or some hotwheels type cars he might have with him or get. For the girl- do you have an area where you can allow her to make a hopscotch board? Or even just drawing with the chalk? (another dollar store item chalk and bean bag). If you have a bunch of old magazines she could cut out pictures and "create" a story with them much like what you were saying with the picture taking too. Or she could create a "wish" book or any other kind of scrap book with the pictures. String bracelet making. Have a picnic (you could do it with both, your other half with the boy, you with the girl). For both of them you can make pine cone bird feeders if you have pine cones (roll them in honey and then bird seed), make home made playdough recipes are online or flubber stuff which is like slime. Kids of all ages love it even teens. I have so many more and don't want to over whelm you but family fun magazine, which you can find online has a lot of ideas to. Hope it helps. [/QUOTE]
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