Spring is a great time of year for egg-themed crafts regardless of your religion or location on this planet. Children love eggs and birth.......
Some of the common crafts include lacing, painting and forming eggs with clay. Here are a few plastic activities made out of detergent bottles that I bet you never heard of before !!!
White plastic is available from the milk and orange juice bottles as well as cat litter and detergent or dishwasher soap bottles.
I have been using the Velcro bottle for over 20 years. I love it to promote bilateral hand use,strengthening fingers and developing the eye hand coordination to insert the objects inside. I have found that older children with developmental delays particularly attend to and enjoy removing objects attached with Velcro.
Cut notches in the white egg shape for children to weave colorful strips through. Adding extra shapes, like the pink ones shown here add complexity and creative options.
I always start out asking younger children to remove strips or shapes since its usually easier to motor plan opening and removing than attaching and closing.
You can see that the almost 3 year old in the video is very interested in removing the shapes from the long circular white strip cut out of a large yogurt container. At this stage she needs a little bit of help taking the egg shapes off the band.
I have been thinking about how to make a simple plastic motor planning activity that can be used to teach how shapes and letters are formed.At first I used such small shapes to move through the empty space that children were able to push the openings and remove them. But the yellow "egg" below has such a large blue shape attached on the other side that all is sturdy and seems to work well when pushing through the mazelike opening. The video I made demonstrates this and came out fairly well even though I was holding the camera between my knees while filming !!!
The kids enjoyed seeing my white band with woven egg shapes on top of my hat today. One of my clients wove the egg shapes on and then held onto it for a while and posed with it on top of her head. The "egg band" was a hit !
Cut notches in the white egg shape for children to weave colorful strips through. Adding extra shapes, like the pink ones shown here add complexity and creative options.
This plastic bottles used to hold cat litter was perfect for making these bottle mazes. Each side has a different maze pattern, but they all encourage moving top to bottom and across, just like the ones older children use with pencil and paper. 
Most of the activities in this book describe therapeutic and teaching adaptations that promote learning and develop hand skills, but it was fun to include a few household adaptations such as the book stand- which can also be very helpful for students while reading or copying....
I also include below a couple of photos of the beach we went to today . We snow shoed on the trails and walked along the shore. The landscape was altered.....the wall of sand dune that my husband is walking toward used to be sloped so that we could walk up to reach the staircase.
I knew that my little clients would love this ....they were so tuned into valentines and hearts. I cut the large white circular piece (from a large container that held protein powder) to function like a belt. In fact the two ends buckle together and it can be placed on the head, around the waist, on arms or used on the ring stack pole.
Cut up different sized containers to get different sized "belts" to weave onto. There seems to be a thin line between stringing and weaving but i will call this "weaving" because I was teaching them to insert the end through the 2 notches in the hearts and then push them down. This is easy to simplify by asking them to only insert through 1 notch or complete the 2nd notch after the first one is already inserted for them. Removing them also took some nice motor planning and hand strength. 
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