#Veggie stix how to#

Hilary Dilks has been working as a pediatric occupational therapist since 2003. Have fun and enjoy playing with your food! See what you and your child can pretend to be. The sticks make great earrings, fun horns, silly teeth or a mustache. This can work on fine motor coordination skills and visual perceptual skills. See how many you can put on the pile before it falls over. This is a great activity if you are working on getting your child to taste new food items or working on. They can use the veggie stix like a paint brush or eat the stix. Your child can practice learning simple shapes like square, triangle, in addition to letters like I, L, M, H and so on.Īnother fun activity is to dip veggie sticks into other food like dressing, ketchup, or sauces. Your child can watch you make new shapes or you can also have him try. Veggie stix can also be transformed into letters, numbers, and shapes. See who can make the most noise! Have you kids practice blowing smaller pieces of veggie stix across the table. Try putting two in your mouth and see what fun sounds you can make by blowing in and out of the straws. There is a hole inside the veggie stick that can be used to blow though. This is also a great finger strengthener and good for pretend play. You can crumble up the veggie sticks and make sprinkles. This is fun to do and also helps improve fine motor grasping skills and strengthening skills. How many green or yellows are there? You can work on organizing them from shortest to longest. While you are sorting them you can practice naming the different colors. Here are some great OT related activities you can do while you enjoy a favorite snack. Veggie Sticks are fun to eat and many kids love them!

#Veggie stix how to#

Here are some super creative ideas from occupational therapist Hilary Dilks for how to play with veggie sticks while also working on some great developmental skills!