Summer can be an exciting time for children with autism as it provides a break from school and an opportunity to engage in fun activities. However, the sudden change in routine and sensory overload can often lead to stress and anxiety for children with autism spectrum disorder.

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.

During the month of July, healthcare and advocacy organizations aim to promote awareness about sarcoma. Even in adults sarcoma is relatively rare when compared to other cancers, and in pediatrics, sarcoma makes up about 15-20% of cancer diagnoses. Similarly to sarcoma in adults, childhood sarcoma (or soft tissue sarcoma) has many variations and can affect any area of the body.

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.

Playing this “puzzle” supports parents and caregivers in teaching children the concepts of time, routine, and organization in a fun and engaging way.

Create this fun and kid-friendly fireworks painting this July! With only a few supplies, you can create colorful works of art to display.

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.

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!

An easy and fun DIY you can do with only a few supplies and is intuitively simple for kids!

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:

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!

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:

Any time is the right time to "eat right" for your family's health and wellness! We'll be highlighting National Childhood Obesity Week in September this year, until then, take a little time to explore how to Eat Right!

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.

In July, we aim to help individuals take the time to understand the implications and effects on a child's health due to obesity — and how to be active in your child’s health life with tips for their diet and physical health.

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.

As a parent, managing the needs of your child can be taxing and a constant, 24/7 job. While some conditions and diagnoses happen at birth or even before, there are some childhood chronic illnesses that can be prevented. It is important to understand what those measures of prevention are and how to employ them for yourself and your family.

Perfect to enjoy the summer, this activity also works on vital visual-perceptual skills to scan the underwater environment, find objects hiding behind one another, and language development for learning directional concepts such as the “fish is hiding behind the seaweed and above the rocks!”

Work on gross motor skills with this easy and fun game! This activity focuses on developing hand eye coordination, balance, gross motor skills. The game can be graded to be more or less challenging depending on ability.

Use simple household ingredients for fun sensory play! This activity involves sensory motor integration, fine motor skills, as well as expressive and receptive language skills. Engage in imaginative play through drawing pictures or playing your own version of Pictionary!