Explore the senses while incorporating fine motor, visual motor, visual perception, tactile defensiveness, daily living skills, play and sequencing skills.

Gross motor activity to plan movements and copy the adult/therapist. Balance/strength/stability as well as crossing midline and distinguishing different body parts and sides of the body.

Tactile (sensory) play to feel all the textures of the leaves/sticks. Visual motor to talk about colors, shapes, sizes. Use of glue adds a sensory component if they touch the stickiness.

Childhood obesity is an issue that is growing more and more common in the United States. According to the CDC, approximately 1 in 5 children (which is around 19%) have obesity in our country.

Kids can get stressed out. Even before the days of online learning and worry about COVID-19, kids can struggle with balancing their commitments and expectations while they may not have the skills to cope with that stress.

Getting quality sleep is important for everyone, but particularly for children and infants, it is crucial. Without quality sleep, cognitive development may suffer in the areas of language, memory, and learning. Poor sleep can affect us all, but children with Down Syndrome are likely to experience a persistence in sleep difficulties.

Global Immune Thrombocytopenia Awareness week falls on September 20-24th each year. Organizations and supporters around the world aim to raise awareness of this disorder. On the last Friday of September, join in and “Sport Purple for Platelets Day.”

Print out materials for this fun and simple game at home. This game helps children work on social skills as well as receptive and expressive communication skills such as following directions, position concepts, vocabulary, and describing.

Spell your name, follow the prompts, and get your exercise!

This exercise game helps children develop gross motor skills, strength, balance, endurance, as well as provides proprioceptive and vestibular input. The prompts can be modified easily to suit the abilities of the players.

Create an easy sensory game with no mess! Play this game to work on fine motor and visual perceptual skills, hand strengthening, bilateral coordination, scissor skill development, and prewriting skills.

The first Monday in October is National Child Health Day. Parents and families work hard to keep their children healthy, and there are many ways to promote a better understanding of how to address children’s health.

Get creative with this simple at-home craft. This activity works on the development of fine motor and visual perceptual skills, hand strength, bilateral coordination, and hand-eye coordination.

Children “pack their backpack” with themed school or late-summer items to prepare for an “adventure day.” The printable cards serve as prompts for movement, speech, and sequencing tasks.

Kids can build this fun and engaging craft to help explain themselves and introduce themselves to their new classmates. In a group, kids can exchange their wheels and then talk about things they find out about each other.

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.

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.

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.

Print out these fun phonics activities to learn letters and vocabulary words. Download the packet of school bus pictures for free fun at home!

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.