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Featured Activity of the Month

Featured Activity of the Month

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Mother's Day Flowerpot Activity

This activity is wonderful for material management, organizational skills, tracing, drawing, cutting, gluing and motor planning skills! This is a great way to discuss flowers, colors, and everything our amazing mothers do for us!

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Marble Painting

Use marbles and paint to create your own abstract art! This activity focuses on fine motor skills such as hand strength, bilateral coordination, in hand manipulation, visual tracking to watch marbles as they roll all over the paper, and determination of different sides of the body (left vs right).

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Handprint Dish

Use clay to craft this useful and special gift! This activity aids in many areas of development including bilateral integration, hand and finger strengthening, sensory processing, fine motor skills, and visual motor skills.

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Puddle Jumpers Board Game

Spring has sprung — and the frogs are ready to hop! In this playful movement and sensory game, kids take turns rolling dice and helping their frog leap from puddle to puddle on a rainy day path. Each roll leads to a movement, sensory, or motor challenge that supports developmental skills through fun, active play.

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The ABCs of Coping

Kids can use this visual reference when they are in need of learning some coping skills that they can use when in moments of turmoil. Sometimes calming down can be difficult if they are experiencing sensory overload or in the midst of a meltdown.

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Adventure Puzzle Pack

Our set of Adventure Puzzles provides interactive and engaging for kids which can enhance their visual perception, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive skills. Choose from six scenes to take you on an adventure in space, the forest, the jungle, underwater, or at a construction site.

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Egg Color Sorting

Kids can practice verbalizing colors or sizes, since the tops/bottoms are not equal size. Draw patterns on the eggs to increase difficulty. Place egg parts on different sides of the room to incorporate gross motor skills.

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Raincloud Name Craft

With the springtime season upon us, spring-themed crafts get help us get ready for the season. Use this craft to help kids learn how to spell their name (first, last, or both).

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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.

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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.

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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!

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