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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Clothespin Match Game
Make this versatile game with simple supplies!
This game focuses on developing fine motor skills. Squeezing clothespins will help develop the pincer/tripod grasp needed for writing, hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination, as well as visual motor skills to match shape/color/letter recognition.
Creating Routines Worksheets
Get free worksheets to print out and use at home with your kids! Create routines together to build skills over time.
Shadow Building Activity
This fun activity works your child’s gradation of force for building blocks, spatial reasoning to avoid knocking them down when tracing, fine motor and visual motor integration, as well as, visual perceptual skills to trace. Have them talk about the blocks, shapes, shadows, and sequence the steps for language development.
Block Sorting Activity
Facilitation of pincer grasp and release for block sorting helps to develop fine motor skills and motor planning to navigate placement into the appropriate place. Work in descriptions of the blocks and their characteristics for language development and visual-perceptual skills.
Feelings Chain Activity
Providing children with the language to be able to be aware of and express their emotions is an essential first step before using coping strategies to self-regulate. Talk with your children over this fun craft activity to have a visual representation of all the feelings they can experience.
Soap Foam Sensory Play
Make a quick and simple watermelon soap foam sensory play experience for your kids to enjoy!
Painters Tape Gross Motor Fun
Use painters tape to create a fun and interactive activity at home (inside the house!)
School Bus Shapes
Get ready for back to school with this easy and fun activity kids can do at home. All you’ll need are a few simple simple supplies: construction paper, glue, scissors, and our printable tracing template.
Back to School List + Goals
Print out your own Back to School Checklist + Goals Worksheet to prep for the new school year ahead. (Download the worksheet in our app)
Story Sequencing Cards
Our Story Sequencing Cards is an engaging therapeutic activity designed to help with your child's cognitive skills, language development, and storytelling abilities. By arranging picture cards in the correct order, children learn to understand and create coherent simple narratives, a crucial skill for both communication and comprehension.
DIY 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, and their characteristics, and label the different items for language development too!
Deep Breathing Exercises
Deep breathing is an excellent coping skill to teach and practice with children of all ages since they can use it in all situations to assist their body in self-regulation.
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Cone Game
Play this active game for a fun spin on an old favorite.
This game helps children develop their auditory processing skills, body awareness, as well as gross motor skills.
Back to School Sensory Bin Maze
Create your own sensory bin at home and get excited to go back to school! This activity develops fine motor skills with pinching, pouring and scooping. Work on language skills to describe the items in the bin. Kids participate in sensory exploration through different textures, smells, sights, things they hear, and if applicable, taste.
Firefly Flash Tag Card Game
Get ready to light up the night with the Firefly Flash Tag Card Game! In this playful outdoor (or indoor!) activity, kids become curious firefly catchers, hunting for glowing prompt cards hidden around the space. Each firefly holds a silly, creative, or wiggly challenge—whether it’s hopping like a frog, making up a story, or saying words that shine. Designed to spark movement, imagination, and speech, this game blends summer magic with developmental skills. No net needed—just your best firefly-finding skills and a twinkle of curiosity!
Coral Reef Watercolor Activity
This activity is great for sequencing and following instructions. You can provide 1, 2 or 3 step instructions to fluctuate the activity to meet your child’s developmental stage.
Storytelling Scenes
Fill in the story scenes to create your own worlds right from your imagination! Choose from 10 different scenes to write a story and illustrate it above. You can print the pages out to use coloring pencils, crayons, or markers, or just open on a tablet to draw and write digitally.
Personality Tree Craft
How does your child describe themselves? A fun way to explore kids’ personality traits is with this simple personality tree craft. Just follow the instructions to create your own.
Timeline Puzzle Activity
Playing this “puzzle” supports parents and caregivers in teaching children the concepts of time, routine, and organization in a fun and engaging way.
Cotton Swab Fireworks Painting
Create this fun and kid-friendly fireworks painting this July! With only a few supplies, you can create colorful works of art to display.