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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Conversation Heart Sort
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.
Heart Hop Game
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.
I Love You to Pieces Activity
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.
Valentine's Cat Craft
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!
Heart Sorting Game
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!
WH Questions Game
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.
Marshmallow Teeth Craft
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.
Valentine Bathtime Identification Game
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.
Gross Motor Balance Beam Heart
This activity is so easy to set up and kids can help with a very minimal cleanup process!