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Speech Treasure Hunt
This interactive game combines speech therapy concepts with a fun treasure hunt theme, with a digital PDF download component (available in our app) for easy play at home, in the classroom, or in speech therapy sessions. Players embark on a treasure hunt, solving speech-related challenges along the way.
Leaf Texture Activity
The leaf texture activity focuses on bilateral coordination to stabilize leaf/paper while coloring, fine motor skills to peel crayons and pinch while holding crayon on side to color, color recognition, identification of different size leaves, and the textures for sensory.
Tower Template Cube
Get some fun ideas to challenge kids to follow along and create something new! It’s easy to play and easy for kids to understand how it works.
Sports Safety Conversation Cube
It is important for children to understand the safety basics when it comes to playing sports. To make the conversation more fun and engaging, use our sports safety conversation cube to talk about what your child should always remember to help them stay safe.
Smash It Speech Therapy Game
Smash the thing! This activity is a great way to get kids active and let out some of the active energy they have naturally while practicing sh-words.
Fall Sensory Bin
Explore the senses while incorporating fine motor, visual motor, visual perception, tactile defensiveness, daily living skills, play and sequencing skills.
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.