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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Immunization Awareness and Disease Prevention
Much research supports the use of vaccines and their effectiveness against preventing life-threatening diseases for children. The recommendations for timing of vaccines largely depends on age and size of a child and their health condition.
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.
Creating Routines
For many of us, this season of our lives has felt much like being on a rollercoaster. We don’t know what is coming next or if we are turning left, right or upside down. It may even feel like we have come to a screeching halt when the ride is over.
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.
Pediatric Psoriasis Awareness
Psoriasis is a common condition which affects many people, as much as two to three percent of the world’s population. Individuals with psoriasis often begin to develop symptoms when they are a child or adolescent. Approximately ten percent of individual with psoriasis develop symptoms before they are 10 years old.
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.
Finish the Picture Activity
Put your creativity to the test with this fun and simple activity.
Start by printing out our templates for the start of your drawings. Have children choose which design they want to start with and the creativity can begin! Kids can use crayons, markers, colored pencils, or anything they choose to build a drawing around the marks already on the page.
Paper Chain Craft
An easy and fun DIY you can do with only a few supplies and is intuitively simple for kids!
Legos for Speech Therapy
Does your family have an abundance of Legos or a similar style of building block in your kids' playroom? Put those block to good use! These building blocks don’t just serve as a motivation...but also as a way to help learn and communicate, address articulation, language and more! Check it out:
Exercise Board Game
Get up and move with this free exercise board game for kids! This printable game board includes several body movements that will work on improving coordination, core strength, balance, and endurance. Whether it’s a rainy day inside, outside on the playground, or within a therapy session, kids will love having fun with this movement activity!
Multi-Tasking Game
Enjoy trying this great multi-tasking activity to help with learning, balance and also helps kids with throwing and eye-hand coordination. It's a great idea for indoors activities! Check it out:
4th of July Snack
Make a quick and delicious patriotic treat!
This activity focuses on auditory processing, gross motor skills, coordination, balance, motor planning, bilateral integration, visual perceptual skills, as well as developing hand and finger strength. Experience sensory integration via different tastes and textures.
Fireworks Painting
This activity focuses on the development of fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, color identification, sensory integration through touching the paint, and expressive and receptive language skills through asking the child about their art.