Sometimes it can be a challenge to help children understand the importance of flossing. The process of flossing can also be difficult for children to see when demonstrating at home.

Create this festive garland with just a few supplies but lots of developmental benefits!

Get in the Valentine’s Day spirit with this fun bingo game!

Use your leftover candy hearts to develop visual perceptual skills and fine motor skills. This activity uses visual perceptual skills to sort by color and identification of colors. Practice fine motor development using pincer grasp to pick up hearts and place into the correct spot.

This activity focuses on developing gross motor skills, motor planning, following directions, as well as auditory processing while listening to when the music starts/stops.

Scissor skill development to address distal dexterity, hand strength, eye-hand coordination, rhythmic timing of coordinated cutting, bilateral integration, tactile exploration, sequencing, and attention to task.

Facilitation of sequencing, following directions, material management, cutting, and drawing to create a Puurrfect Friend! Build on this fun craft with some imaginative play and fun animal sounds or gross motor movements when you pretend to be cats, too!

Promotion of visual scanning skills and visual- motor integration for color identification and sorting. Add language for description of color, size and quantity while you play!

The WH Questions Game requires a lot of language skills. A child must understand the question word, understand the grammar of the question, and make sense of the information and the social context.

This craft works on the development of fine motor and visual motor skills, following directions, and attention to detail. It is a fun opportunity to play and talk about dental hygiene at home.

Give your child a fun sensory experience while learning colors, counting, building core strength for stability during reaching for sorting, and visual- motor integration to scan, motor plan for obtaining heart, fine motor dexterity to retrieve the heart, and gross motor skill for reaching and placing the heart with the same color or same size.

This activity is so easy to set up and kids can help with a very minimal cleanup process!

This simple game encourages children to explore their surroundings and associate objects with their corresponding letters.

Telling time and counting down is much more fun with our clock craft! This template comes in different parts so you can adjust for your skill level. Simply choose your template, cut out the pieces, fasten the clock hands to the middle point with a brad or pin.

Print out this easy template to create your own celebration popper card! There are many options to create the card, so kids can exercise their creativity and imagination.

Make your own firework ring at home! This is a very simple craft, which only requires one item: pipe cleaners. You can find pipe cleaners in different colors, including metallics! Making your ring is four steps.

This DIY confetti popper activity promotes visual and fine motor skills with creating and decorating your very own reusable confetti poppers. Sensory motor comes into play with the different textures of the supplies.

Create this fun and interactive craft to help your child develop their language skills and fluency in a fun way. This activity focuses on articulation, language, fluency, and social skills. Use sentences instead of words on the fish or change the activity to best suit your needs.

You can use your creation as a fidget or calming toy to destress and reduce anxiety related to online learning. Print free instructions to make a DIY stress ball at home, and read our article: Promoting Success with Online Learning via Regulation Strategies.

This versatile activity can be changed up throughout the year to a different theme. Different winter theme instead of tree trunk with snow flakes could build a snowman. If you don’t have a scooter board, the kiddos could do animal walks to and from point A to B.