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Learning Letters Tracing Activity
Learning letters is an excellent preparatory activity for school to increase auditory processing, language development, and associations, as well as the visual motor integration to identify and appropriately trace letters.
Back to School Conversation Monsters
Get the conversation started with prompts from these fun monsters! This activity provides children with helpful conversation starters to practice social skills or WH questions.
Alphabet Spelling Exercise
Get active while working on your spelling skills! This game is fun and really easy to get started playing. You can print out our alphabet exercise sheet or open it on a tablet for kids to look at.
Phonics School Bus
Print out these fun phonics activities to learn letters and vocabulary words. Download the packet of school bus pictures for free fun at home!
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)
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.
Healthy Vision
Our eyes are such a vital part of our body and for children, maintaining healthy vision and addressing issues as they arise is key. Eye exams are a normal and necessary part of your child’s life.
Organization: Back to School
A little planning can go a long way to get organized for going back to school. Although it can feel daunting, some low-cost or free solutions can help everything feel like it is organized and on track. Every family is unique, and can find the tools that work best for their individual circumstance.
Gastroparesis Awareness
It is vital that our digestive system function properly. However, there are many conditions which affect the digestive system and can cause problems. Our stomach muscles move and process the food we eat. When this movement doesn’t function appropriately, it prevents your stomach from removing the contents of it and emptying, which is a condition called gastroparesis.