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Match Me Card Game
Gross motor activity to plan movements and copy the adult/therapist. Balance/strength/stability as well as crossing midline and distinguishing different body parts and sides of the body.
Festive Fall Tree Craft
Tactile (sensory) play to feel all the textures of the leaves/sticks. Visual motor to talk about colors, shapes, sizes. Use of glue adds a sensory component if they touch the stickiness.
Fall Scene Barrier Game
Print out materials for this fun and simple game at home. This game helps children work on social skills as well as receptive and expressive communication skills such as following directions, position concepts, vocabulary, and describing.
A-Z Exercise Spelling
Spell your name, follow the prompts, and get your exercise!
This exercise game helps children develop gross motor skills, strength, balance, endurance, as well as provides proprioceptive and vestibular input. The prompts can be modified easily to suit the abilities of the players.
Apple Seed Game
Create an easy sensory game with no mess! Play this game to work on fine motor and visual perceptual skills, hand strengthening, bilateral coordination, scissor skill development, and prewriting skills.
Cardboard Haircuts
Get creative with this simple at-home craft. This activity works on the development of fine motor and visual perceptual skills, hand strength, bilateral coordination, and hand-eye coordination.
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.
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.
Creating Routines Worksheets
Get free worksheets to print out and use at home with your kids! Create routines together to build skills over time.
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.
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!)