Scrap Crafts

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Scrap crafts can be an economical and fun way to incorporate meaningful activities in treatment sessions. Scrap crafts require performance skills, such as motor, process, and social interaction skills.

 

Examples include in-hand manipulation skills, bilateral coordination, prehensile grasp patterns, sequencing, calibration, and taking turns.

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For my class scrap craft project, I instructed my colleagues in using recycled glass jars, tissue paper, diluted glue, and foam paint brushes to make decorative candle holders. 

 

My classmates participated in choosing their colors and jars, coordination and manipulation skills to cut and glue tissue paper, and handling the tools and supplies appropriately so they did not slip from their hands or get damaged.

 

They took turns using the supplies, and at the end brought home a beautiful candle holder they could keep or give as a gift.

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*italicized terms above are used in the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, 3rd edition.

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