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Story Stones
Play this fun and easy game to work on and improve language development, articulation, and listening skills. Find this activity and many others in our app!
Animal Walk Relay Race
This game is great for gross motor development! Find this game and so much more in our mobile app!
Mother's Day Flowerpot Activity
This activity is wonderful for material management, organizational skills, tracing, drawing, cutting, gluing and motor planning skills! This is a great way to discuss flowers, colors, and everything our amazing mothers do for us!
Hand and Foot Hopscotch
Get active with this easy indoor hopscotch game! This activity focuses on the development of motor planning, differentiation between left and right, as well as visual processing.
Marble Painting
Use marbles and paint to create your own abstract art! This activity focuses on fine motor skills such as hand strength, bilateral coordination, in hand manipulation, visual tracking to watch marbles as they roll all over the paper, and determination of different sides of the body (left vs right).
Handprint Dish
Use clay to craft this useful and special gift! This activity aids in many areas of development including bilateral integration, hand and finger strengthening, sensory processing, fine motor skills, and visual motor skills.
Adventure Puzzle Pack
Our set of Adventure Puzzles provides interactive and engaging for kids which can enhance their visual perception, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive skills. Choose from six scenes to take you on an adventure in space, the forest, the jungle, underwater, or at a construction site.
The ABCs of Coping
Kids can use this visual reference when they are in need of learning some coping skills that they can use when in moments of turmoil. Sometimes calming down can be difficult if they are experiencing sensory overload or in the midst of a meltdown.
Finger Fidget Activity
Hand/finger fidgets also strengthen hand muscles that will develop the muscles of the hand for fine motor activities.
Caterpillar Feeding Gross Motor Game
All you’ll need to play this game is a box and the printable components provided. Kids get added benefits by folding and gluing or taping each leaf cube before playing.
Egg Color Sorting
Kids can practice verbalizing colors or sizes, since the tops/bottoms are not equal size. Draw patterns on the eggs to increase difficulty. Place egg parts on different sides of the room to incorporate gross motor skills.
Raincloud Name Craft
With the springtime season upon us, spring-themed crafts get help us get ready for the season. Use this craft to help kids learn how to spell their name (first, last, or both).
Feed the Bunny Speech Game
Work on vocabulary with this Easter-themed speech game! Just print out the bunny face and carrots to get started. Cut along the dashed lines to create the opening to feed the bunny.
Egg Matching Cards
This matching game is easy to set up and fun to customize to make your own! Kids can color in the designs on the eggs using their device or they can be printed out and colored with crayons or colored pencils.
Gross Motor Dice Game
Use this easy template to print out a fun gross motor game! This activity focuses on helping children develop gross motor skills, coordination, motor planning, imagination, and pacing.
Really Big Bubbles
Not only following instructions for appropriate sequencing for cognitive development, but also running to create these huge industrial bubbles will get your kids excited, moving and enhancing their visual-motor integration skills to see who can pop them first!
Playdoh Strengthening
Play with Playdoh to help develop motor skills through strengthening fingers and hands.
Painting with Broccoli
Who knew green vegetables could be so much fun? Kids can use broccoli in a new way with this fun craft. There are many ways to create your own broccoli painting, so use the supplies that you have on hand (and cauliflower works just as well as broccoli!)
Mindful Breathing with Shapes
There are many ways to find a place of calm even when children are feeling stressed, overstimulated, or upset. Coping mechanisms exist for us to learn and use! Kids can learn their own versions of common coping mechanisms, such as breathing.