This moon sand recipe is so easy to make! With only two ingredients, you'll be playing with this soft and sensory sand within minutes. Moon Sand This moon sand recipe is so much fun. The texture is soft and crumbly, but it also molds really well into different shapes. The kids thought it was the best thing ever! I've tested different kinetic sand recipes before (like this kinetic sand, this moldable play sand and this foam sand), but this one was BY FAR the best. And with only 2 ingredients it's also super easy to make. We loved how the
This resource covers information on the proprioceptive sense and includes proprioception sensory activities for kids.
Learn how to make pretend snow with only 2 simple ingredients. The perfect winter sensory play idea.
Heavy work activities provide proprioceptive input that can help children stay calm. This list of heavy work activities contains ideas kids can use anywhere
The Feed the Animals activity is Perfect for small group activities, circle time, or even individual use during center time, this activity is sure to be a hit with young learners. To begin, print
32 Sensory Play Activities For Kids With Autism. Sensory Play helps all children learn, but for kids on the autism spectrum, it can
Over 35 heavy work activities for kids, toddlers, and preschoolers that are designed to help calm and improve attention. Many of these activities can be done through natural activities your child is already doing!
Colorful pasta noodles are great to use for crafts, sensory bins, and sorting activities. This simple tutorial will show you how to dye noodles!
Bring the classic story to life! With this We're Going on a Bear Hunt sensory activity children will experience the book in a whole new way.
As soon as I started to plan out our Sensory Room, I knew I wanted to include a sensory wall. This DIY tactile sensory wall is just what I envisioned!
Use sensory seeking activities to calm and organize sensory seeking behaviors in your "wild" child or toddler that seems to never stop...
DIY stress balls are so easy to make! All you need is a balloon and a filler like flour or rice and you end up with a super fun, super squishy stress ball that's perfect for busy hands! How to Make a Stress Ball Homemade stress balls are SUPER SIMPLE to make at home. You can use flour, rice, water beads, play dough, and even oobleck as a filler inside the balloon. In order to get the flour inside the balloon, you'll also need a funnel. But no worries if you don't have one! Simply cut the bottom off a
10 whiteboard activity ideas. A compilation of ideas for activities to do on a whiteboard. A versitile tool for anyone working with others.
Dried pasta makes an awesome play resource for kids. Best of all it's cheap and chances are you already have a plentiful supply to hand in the kitchen cupboard! To give your pasta extra kid-appeal you can dye pasta lovely bright colours using this method.
Farm Art activities, Farm Fine Motor Activities, & Farm Sensory Activities for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students
Find all the apple activities for preschool you need in our weekly plan. Engage your child in comprehension, literacy, math, science, art, & sensory play.
Frozen ghosts sensory bin for kids. A fun and easy sensory activity for toddlers and preschoolers to play with this Halloween.
This visual directory of non-food sensory bin ideas for preschoolers will help teachers plan the bin filler, accessories, and learning objectives.
Add elements of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell to your preschool centers to integrate science and play while students explore their senses.
Got a bored toddler at home? From easy indoor and outdoor activities, to sensory, montessori and fun learning activities, these are the best activities for 18 month olds at home.
The Feed the Animals activity is Perfect for small group activities, circle time, or even individual use during center time, this activity is sure to be a hit with young learners. To begin, print
101 sensory play activities for kids with autism to help strengthen the brain’s neural pathways by stimulating the 5 senses to facilitate learning!
Learn how to make a sensory bottle with our sensory bottle recipes and tips. DIY Sensory bottles are a calm-down tool and aid for meditation.
Engage your 1-2 year old's senses with educational sensory activities. Encouraging hands-on exploration and promoting physical and cognitive development, these fun activities provide a safe and stimulating environment for learning and growth. Give the gift of play!
Music is a great way to unite large groups and gatherings and is the source of great activities that are suitable for both able and non-able clients.
Wanting to paint with your baby or toddler, but she still puts everything in that little mouth of hers? Good news, you can make painting edible! It's super simple and tons of fun. Suitable for toddlers and babies that are on solids. We do edible painting a lot in our house, because my little girl is always
Sensory squish bags provide the perfect mess-free quiet time sensory activity. Besides the mess-free sensory play, squish bags encourage hands-on exploration and make for great learning tools to spark conversations and build vocabulary with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Have you made bubble foam yet? Turning it into bubble foam trucks is even better! This easy sensory bin from Busy Toddler is a must try.
A collection of FUN and mess free ways to incorporate sensory play at home and at school. Sensory bags are the way to go if looking for less mess sensory!
If you are looking for a colorful hands on sensory activity, here's how to dye rice with rubbing alcohol, food coloring, and rice! We used this for our homeschool preschool, and it's easy to store and reuse. Even though it's pretty, it's not edible. Start to finish this took about 25 minutes for 5 colors,
Want to learn how to make rainbow rice? Here's a quick and easy way to make fun colorful rice perfect for playing and for use in sensory bins.
Get your FREE Sensory Path Printable today! Our sensory pathway includes 10 pages of various gross motor skill actions.
Kids can do these hands-on cloud activities for FUN and PLAY! They will learn the letter C, cloud science, make a letter C craft, and more!
Looking for great sensory bin ideas? What should you put in your sensory bins? These sensory bin fillers are all great ideas! Give them each a try for....
Use letter activities like alphabet collages or letter mats to help kids learn letter recognition and to reinforce letter-sound associations. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your
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Our theme this week was "Our Five Senses" and we focused on the letter B and the shape circle. We read this week: Ferdinand by Munro Leaf Paddington by Mark Brown Paddington and the Busy Bee Carnival by Mark Brown The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon Our question of the week was "What is something that you are really good at?" For our theme of the week, we talked a lot about our senses, what they help us do and why we need them. We made texture collages: This week is full of some of my favorite activities from the year, these texture collages being one of them. I love how each one is different, and the kids are so proud of the texture choices that they make. AND they look amazing on the wall. We tasted sweet, salty and sour things, and the kids had to vote on their favorite taste. (They think it's awesome when they get to eat things as part of a project.) We tested their sense of smells with this project where I asked them to describe the things that they were smelling. I used perfume, shampoo, chocolate syrup, pickle juice, toothpaste and (the most tricky) water. Out on our schools nature trail we talked about the different sounds that we could hear. We did this at various points of our walk, close to the school, by the parking lot and deeper in the woods. Lastly we did another activity with the sense of touch. I set up my table with different texture objects. I used flour, rice, oatmeal, sand and a scrubbing sponge. As the students felt each thing, I asked them to describe what they were feeling. It was hard to get them away from just telling them what the items were and to use describing words, but we got there in the end. For our shape of the week, the kids practiced drawing circles with this cool worksheet of circles and another with squares and circles. We also worked on recognizing circles out of other shapes. We talked a lot about things that are circles. We sang the song "This is a circle, this is a circle. How can you tell? How can you tell? It goes round and round, No end can be found, It's a circle, it's a circle." -Found Here For our letter activities, we used our handwriting sheet for the letter B, the sheet that helps work on letter recognition, both were mentioned in the "All About Me" post. The students also wrote in their journals for the letter B. We turned B's into Bees! After we read Ferdinand we all made our own bees. This was a great way for the kids to practice their cutting skills. I love how each child's bee is different. Another project that we did (another one of my favorites all year) is the Boat Builder activity. I love it because I give the students the materials and the end result is something completely their own. Each child got a piece of white paper, a square of brown paper, a skinny black rectangle, scissors, a glue stick and crayons with the instruction of make me a boat however you want to. (They love when I say that). If I get "I don't know how..." or " I can't do it.." We go back a few steps and talk about boats.. what do they look like, where do we find them, what do they do, and then the creative juices start flowing. Here's the end results! Love it! For our Alphabet wall we made butterflies with coffee filters and water color paint. After the children painted their coffee filters and they dried I used small pipe cleaners to turn them into butterflies! And with the B addition, our wall now looks like... Our list for words beginning with B's was very impressive. Here it is! As a side note, teachers always need to be flexible, and as such, it was in the best interest of the flow of the classroom to switch two centers, the library and dramatic play center. And I'm always telling the kids to make sure that they turn off the water faucet after getting a drink or washing their hands. I tell them to "Save the water for the fishes, so I painted a mural for above the sink to remind them. Up next week: The letter C, Triangles and "Our Feelings".
I am always looking for ideas to shake up my OT treatments and try to get creative with activity tolerance activities, because it is just NOT functional or
