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Feed the Bunny Speech Game
Work on vocabulary with this Easter-themed speech game! Just print out the bunny face and carrots to get started. Cut along the dashed lines to create the opening to feed the bunny.
Egg Matching Cards
This matching game is easy to set up and fun to customize to make your own! Kids can color in the designs on the eggs using their device or they can be printed out and colored with crayons or colored pencils.
Gross Motor Dice Game
Use this easy template to print out a fun gross motor game! This activity focuses on helping children develop gross motor skills, coordination, motor planning, imagination, and pacing.
Really Big Bubbles
Not only following instructions for appropriate sequencing for cognitive development, but also running to create these huge industrial bubbles will get your kids excited, moving and enhancing their visual-motor integration skills to see who can pop them first!
Playdoh Strengthening
Play with Playdoh to help develop motor skills through strengthening fingers and hands.
Painting with Broccoli
Who knew green vegetables could be so much fun? Kids can use broccoli in a new way with this fun craft. There are many ways to create your own broccoli painting, so use the supplies that you have on hand (and cauliflower works just as well as broccoli!)
Mindful Breathing with Shapes
There are many ways to find a place of calm even when children are feeling stressed, overstimulated, or upset. Coping mechanisms exist for us to learn and use! Kids can learn their own versions of common coping mechanisms, such as breathing.
Easter Bunny Sock
Working on creating this Easter Bunny sock will help kids with their bilateral integration skills to cut, pour rice, and tie ribbon. Moreover, it will promote material organization and sequencing to adequately create the craft. Provide extra problem-solving challenges by giving them time to work through the process if they are old enough and stand by for questions.
Speech Water Play
Work on WH questions and final SH sounds with sensory play! This activity works on WH questions (describing, categories, prepositions, basic concepts and sentence formulation), final SH sounds, ADL to "clean" fish in the bucket, and sensory play.
Rain Clouds Experiment
Talk about the weather while working on sensory exploration! This activity focuses on fine motor skills with pinching droppers, pouring water, and squeezing shaving can.
Fingerprint Flowers
Use your hands and simple supplies for a fun spring craft! This activity focuses on sensory play through feeling the paint on the fingers/hands, visual perceptual to ID the colors and where to place fingers on the paper, finger isolation, and body awareness.
Spring into Action Game Pack
In this game, kids will color in parts of the springtime scene, cut them out, and use the cards to get into action!
Rainbow Chalk Shamrock
Use a simple stencil to create festive sidewalk fun. Children use fine motor skills to cut, trace, and smudge chalk. Work on visual motor skills with tracing and cutting while practicing accuracy and identification of colors.
Leprechaun Name Craft
This activity utilizes fine motor skills to cut, write, and fold the paper while making the beard. Children use visual motor skills with sequencing and learning the letters to spell their name or vocabulary words.
Leprechaun Says
In addition to developing gross motor skills, this game does so much more! This game can aid in all of the following: Auditory processing to follow instructions, impulse control, attention to task, all motor coordination/motor planning, body awareness, dynamic standing balance, concepts (like play the bagpipes), bilateral integration, and more.
St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin
Bring in the luck with this festive holiday play idea! Use household items or find holiday decorations to include in your St. Patrick’s Day sensory bin. This activity utilizes fine motor skills with pinching, pouring, and scooping. Language skills are used to describe the items in the bin.
Calm Down Sandwich
Build a sandwich to practice self-regulation! Kids can create their own sandwich and choose which toppings to follow the directions until they feel calm. You can use the printable sandwich pieces provided or create your own!
Lion or Lamb Self-Regulation Activity
How does a lion feel? How does a lamb feel? Make your own lions and lambs with our printable faces and some simple items from around the house, such as toilet paper rolls and cotton balls.
Clover Hop Gross Motor Game
Play this fun St. Patrick’s Day version of musical chairs! All you’ll need is the clover printouts and some music. Tape the clovers to the floor in a circle, then the fun begins!