Group Therapy Activities

Fine Motor Skills

 Decorating Cupcakes

Occupational Therapy use therapeutic activities as treatment medium with their client. A simple activities can train your client or children to improve and enhance their skills and performances. My friends and I use this activities on one of our Group Therapy session, we named it as 'Decorating Cupcakes'.

Ingredients and Tools

• Ready made cupcakes
• Chocolates, we used choki-ckoki (the one in the picture)
• Colorful M&M kind of stuff
• Scissor
• Plate
• Tissues

Scissoring Skills  

Following Instruction Abilities

 Procedure; 

1. Ask each one of them to distribute the material such as plate, chocolates and of course the cupcakes
2. The show the how to make it step by step. For example opening the cupcakes cup. It really important to demonstrate first as some of children have difficulties in following verbal instruction
3. Then, ask them to cut the tip of the choki-choki chocolate, well they need to share the scissors. Taking turn and asking permission to borrow
4. Next, pinch the chocolate on top of the cupcakes
5. For the decoration, we used M&M and ask them to take different colors. Ask one color at a time. Cognitive skill in basic concept of color
6. Take some pictures and pray before eating. Well is kind a selfie before eating. lol. Just for some memory before the cupcakes gone
7. Lastly, don't forget to train the child to clean up after eating. Some parents did not applied this when they eat outside. We should practice it every time to train the children about eating manners and behavior

Pinching Skills

Taking Turn

Creativeness

Social Skills

Ritual / Religious Activity 

Eating and Feeding

Clean up

Hope it helpful!!!