Work on WH questions and final SH sounds with sensory play! This activity works on WH questions (describing, categories, prepositions, basic concepts and sentence formulation), final SH sounds, ADL to "clean" fish in the bucket, and sensory play.

Talk about the weather while working on sensory exploration! This activity focuses on fine motor skills with pinching droppers, pouring water, and squeezing shaving can.

Use your hands and simple supplies for a fun spring craft! This activity focuses on sensory play through feeling the paint on the fingers/hands, visual perceptual to ID the colors and where to place fingers on the paper, finger isolation, and body awareness.

On average, 4.3 million children are reported as victims of child abuse and neglect. According to Childhelp.org, child abuse is reported every ten seconds in the United States. Interestingly, the CDC reports that there are about 4 million births per year are the result of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Knowing that there are almost 400,000 children in our foster care system, what is happening to cause the increase in abuse cases?

April is the month where we focus on the amazing work of occupational therapists! An OT or an OTA (occupational therapy assistant) assist others through therapeutic intervention to live their life with the maximum level of independence. Occupational therapists work with children during development and work with children with different learning or developmental abilities and we can celebrate them all year!

During the month of April, we aim to raise awareness about stress and the negative effect it can have on a person. As we get older, our responsibilities typically increase and it is understandable that stress comes as well. But children can also feel stressed because of the commitments they balance between school, extracurricular activities, or relationships.

Get ready to move, play, and remember. The Animal Parade Memory Game helps children build motor planning, attention, and sequencing skills through simple animal-inspired movements.

The National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD) recognizes March as developmental disabilities awareness month. During this month, they highlight the facts and aim to raise awareness about inclusion for those who are differently abled.

Healthy eating is a component of a healthy lifestyle at any age. National Nutrition Month takes place every March and provides us the opportunity to check in on our nutrition and food choices.

Use a simple stencil to create festive sidewalk fun. Children use fine motor skills to cut, trace, and smudge chalk. Work on visual motor skills with tracing and cutting while practicing accuracy and identification of colors.

This activity utilizes fine motor skills to cut, write, and fold the paper while making the beard. Children use visual motor skills with sequencing and learning the letters to spell their name or vocabulary words.

In addition to developing gross motor skills, this game does so much more! This game can aid in all of the following: Auditory processing to follow instructions, impulse control, attention to task, all motor coordination/motor planning, body awareness, dynamic standing balance, concepts (like play the bagpipes), bilateral integration, and more.

Bring in the luck with this festive holiday play idea! Use household items or find holiday decorations to include in your St. Patrick’s Day sensory bin. This activity utilizes fine motor skills with pinching, pouring, and scooping. Language skills are used to describe the items in the bin.

Typically bleeding disorders involve blood clotting. During the process of coagulation (blood clotting), many factors come into play. Some individuals have an imbalance in their clotting process.

Build a sandwich to practice self-regulation! Kids can create their own sandwich and choose which toppings to follow the directions until they feel calm. You can use the printable sandwich pieces provided or create your own!

How does a lion feel? How does a lamb feel? Make your own lions and lambs with our printable faces and some simple items from around the house, such as toilet paper rolls and cotton balls.

Play this fun St. Patrick’s Day version of musical chairs! All you’ll need is the clover printouts and some music. Tape the clovers to the floor in a circle, then the fun begins!

In this game, kids will color in parts of the springtime scene, cut them out, and use the cards to get into action!

Sensory bottles are very helpful in training children how to calm their body down; they provide a visual cue to help pair their breathing with and slow down. And with the variety of items in the bottle, this can be a great visual scanning activity to find different objects and have your child identify and describe them for language development.

Cutting tissue paper helps in building hand strength and bilateral integration. Working to collect the colors improves visual-perceptual skills. Crumpling and gluing works on fine motor dexterity, visual-motor planning, and sequencing.