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Festive Fall Tree Craft
Enhance your child’s bilateral integration, motor planning, and intrinsic hand strength for scissor manipulation skills through this fun and festive seasonal craft. You can use items you normally have at home!
Make a Turkey Apple
A craft you can eat! This activity is great for promotion of spatial reasoning, motor planning, pincer grasp, body awareness and play with various textures.
How to Make a Calm Down Toolbox
Creation of the calm down toolbox provides social-emotional skill development and connection with your child.
Create Your Own Creepy Character
Build your own monster while engaging in developmental activities!
Check Your Engine
Make it a habit to check in with your engine to identify how your child is feeling and help them understand how others are feeling.
Halloween Workout
Work on gross motor skills, balance, coordination, endurance, stamina, and core strength with this spooky exercise!
Candy Corn Craft
Use tissue paper for this easy and festive fall craft! Download a free copy of this Candy Corn Craft.
Monster Toss Game
Get creative with your stack of monsters to practice visual motor skills.
Spooky Noodle Sensory Bin
Get into the Halloween spirit with this slimy DIY sensory bin!
This sensory bin helps kids work on fine motor skills with pinching, pouring and scooping. Develop language skills by describing the items in the bin.
Giant Spiderweb Painting
Set up a spooky canvas for your kids to make their own Halloween art!
This craft focuses on developing gross motor skills like crossing the midline, shoulder and elbow strength and stability, and wrist and pencil grasp.
Calming Cards
Make these cards to add to your toolbox and aid your child’s emotional regulation. You can ask your child’s therapy professionals about any methods similar to this that might be in practice at school or in sessions.
Color Feelings
Make these cards to aid in your child’s emotional regulation and development.
Animal Sound Match-Up
Animal Sound Match-Up is an engaging card game to help kids improve their speech and language skills while having fun! This set includes two decks of cards: one with pictures of animals and another with corresponding animal noises.
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.