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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Animal Alphabet Adventure
In this fun-filled activity, children will embark on an Animal Alphabet Adventure! This activity incorporates concepts of occupational therapy by promoting fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive development.
Home Balance Beam
Use the balance beam you create to help establish vestibular support with a fun activity. It can help kids focus, regulate impulse, and of course, improve balance and posture!
Cereal Sensory Bin
Sensory exploration helps to strengthen the neural pathway and brain perception of the various sights, sounds, textures, temperatures, smells and tastes. Encourage your child to describe the things they see and feel or their characteristics.
DIY Play Dough
The play through this homemade dough can help support fine motor skills through strengthening hand muscles and improving hand-eye coordination as well!
Painted Rocks Craft
Drawing or painting can help develop fine motor skills, but also can increase self-esteem and boost confidence. This activity can also help your child express their emotions or help you understand their state of mind.
Cupid’s Heart Card Game
Kids will engage in interactive Valentine’s Day cards where they will complete a series of challenges related to occupational and speech therapy while collecting their heart cards. This activity can be done in pairs or individually, depending on the setting.
Colorful Speech Shapes
Colorful Speech" is a fun and interactive activity that aims to enhance children's speech and language development.
Happy Tooth Sad Tooth
What foods are good for your teeth and what foods are bad for your teeth?
Kids can play this visual activity to understand how to choose foods that will be good for their teeth and dental hygiene.
Ribbon Ring Craft
Kids can play, dance, and move after making this easy and fun ribbon ring craft (bonus: no mess!)
You’ll only need a few household supplies.
Flossing Game for Kids
Sometimes it can be a challenge to help children understand the importance of flossing. The process of flossing can also be difficult for children to see when demonstrating at home.
Valentine’s Hole Punch Heart Garland
Create this festive garland with just a few supplies but lots of developmental benefits!
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.