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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
All About Me Craft
Kids can build this fun and engaging craft to help explain themselves and introduce themselves to their new classmates. In a group, kids can exchange their wheels and then talk about things they find out about each other.
Learning Letters Tracing Activity
Learning letters is an excellent preparatory activity for school to increase auditory processing, language development, and associations, as well as the visual motor integration to identify and appropriately trace letters.
Back to School Conversation Monsters
Get the conversation started with prompts from these fun monsters! This activity provides children with helpful conversation starters to practice social skills or WH questions.
Alphabet Spelling Exercise
Get active while working on your spelling skills! This game is fun and really easy to get started playing. You can print out our alphabet exercise sheet or open it on a tablet for kids to look at.
Phonics School Bus
Print out these fun phonics activities to learn letters and vocabulary words. Download the packet of school bus pictures for free fun at home!
Clothespin Match Game
Make this versatile game with simple supplies!
This game focuses on developing fine motor skills. Squeezing clothespins will help develop the pincer/tripod grasp needed for writing, hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination, as well as visual motor skills to match shape/color/letter recognition.
Healthy Vision
Our eyes are such a vital part of our body and for children, maintaining healthy vision and addressing issues as they arise is key. Eye exams are a normal and necessary part of your child’s life.
Creating Routines Worksheets
Get free worksheets to print out and use at home with your kids! Create routines together to build skills over time.
Organization: Back to School
A little planning can go a long way to get organized for going back to school. Although it can feel daunting, some low-cost or free solutions can help everything feel like it is organized and on track. Every family is unique, and can find the tools that work best for their individual circumstance.
Shadow Building Activity
This fun activity works your child’s gradation of force for building blocks, spatial reasoning to avoid knocking them down when tracing, fine motor and visual motor integration, as well as, visual perceptual skills to trace. Have them talk about the blocks, shapes, shadows, and sequence the steps for language development.
Block Sorting Activity
Facilitation of pincer grasp and release for block sorting helps to develop fine motor skills and motor planning to navigate placement into the appropriate place. Work in descriptions of the blocks and their characteristics for language development and visual-perceptual skills.
Feelings Chain Activity
Providing children with the language to be able to be aware of and express their emotions is an essential first step before using coping strategies to self-regulate. Talk with your children over this fun craft activity to have a visual representation of all the feelings they can experience.
Gastroparesis Awareness
It is vital that our digestive system function properly. However, there are many conditions which affect the digestive system and can cause problems. Our stomach muscles move and process the food we eat. When this movement doesn’t function appropriately, it prevents your stomach from removing the contents of it and emptying, which is a condition called gastroparesis.
Soap Foam Sensory Play
Make a quick and simple watermelon soap foam sensory play experience for your kids to enjoy!
Painters Tape Gross Motor Fun
Use painters tape to create a fun and interactive activity at home (inside the house!)
National Health Centers Week
Community Health Centers were established in 1965. Since then, over 29 million people now have access to affordable health care in over 1,400 establishments that work toward reducing health care disparities.
Breastfeeding Awareness and Developmental Benefits
Breastfeeding is a shared human experience all over the world as a natural aspect of caring for babies. World breastfeeding week falls in August, and during that week, people around the world join together to promote one of WABA’s objectives: to “focus on the impact of infant feeding on the environment/climate change and the imperative to protect, promote and support breastfeeding for the health of the planet and its people,” along with other ways to enable breastfeeding and empower parents.
School Bus Shapes
Get ready for back to school with this easy and fun activity kids can do at home. All you’ll need are a few simple simple supplies: construction paper, glue, scissors, and our printable tracing template.
Back to School List + Goals
Print out your own Back to School Checklist + Goals Worksheet to prep for the new school year ahead. (Download the worksheet in our app)
Story Sequencing Cards
Our Story Sequencing Cards is an engaging therapeutic activity designed to help with your child's cognitive skills, language development, and storytelling abilities. By arranging picture cards in the correct order, children learn to understand and create coherent simple narratives, a crucial skill for both communication and comprehension.