Vestibular input activities can provide some of the best stimulation for active sensory seeking kids which can keep their sensory needs met for hours.
Perfect for re-charging and re-focusing, these 10 great Youtube videos will get your kids moving and grooving as they cross that all important midline. Great for brain breaks at school or at home.
This Blog and Infographic will review tonic reflexes, their significance if the reflex persists beyond the typical age range, and the possible impact on a child’s functioning and role performance. Last but not least, this blog will suggest therapeutic interventions that are known to help inhibit the activation of tonic reflexes and advance postural control as a foundation for optimal functioning.
Discover the perfect All About Me preschool activity designed for young kids! Get a free printable worksheet that's simple, engaging, and ideal for emergent readers. Download now!
Plan the new school year with these goal setting worksheets for kids. Use this goal planning printable to help kids plan and take action on their goals.
A super fun arrow jumping game for kids. Comes with a free printable.
Learn what a sensory diet is, how it can benefit your child's learning, focus, behavior, and emotional regulation, and discover which activities should be part of your child’s individual sensory diet.
Blank books provide a great way to encourage kids to write. Here are 3 easy ways to assemble blank books for your writing center, literacy center, and beyond.
FREE printable sorting mats for preschoolers and kindergarten kids to learn about animals and their habitats. Great science and nature activity that kids will love! Includes rainforest, ocean, desert, polar, woodland and wetland habitats.
It's art, it's math and it's a fine motor work out but it's also SUPER COOL! Make your own name snowflakes is a great STEAM challenge for school age kids.
Planting lifelong foundations in early childhood
If your child is struggling with fear and worry, try one of these helpful ideas to help them overcome their fears and stop being afraid.
Keep students engaged and check out this must-try collection of hands-on, educational, and FUN engineering activities for kids!
Happy Monday! I’ve been having fun brainstorming about home improvements around our house and looking at lots of blogs and Pinterest boards for inspiration lately. I thought it would be fun …
Everyone believes in fairies ……. Childhood is such a magical time full of enchantment & make believe.. here’s some ideas to feed their imaginations & spread a little magic. You could go on a Feather Hunt Adventure.
Free printable Bible lesson about Jesus' childhood and visit to the temple from Luke 2:41-52. Includes worksheets, coloring sheets, crafts, games and more.
Captain’s Orders is a great group game for kids as it get’s children moving and thinking…fast! The faster the game commands are called, the faster (and funnier!) the actions become! The game can be easily adapted by reducing or increasing the number and complexity of the commands, which makes a great game to play with...
Help your child practice recognizing left from right with
Create an easy paper lantern craft that's perfect for Lunar Chinese New Year celebrations and easy enough to do with kids!
Learn to recognize and complete patterns in this Complete The Pattern printable worksheet.
Sing, dance and play musical instruments to get the wiggles out! Favorite songs from my early childhood music classes! Toddler tested and approved!
Origami is such a fun activity! It helps kids with fine motor skills as well as following directions. It’s a pretty inexpensive activity as all you need is origami paper and you can make your own but cutting any thin paper (like copy paper you used and want to recycle) into squares. A great project…
Looking for fun hand clapping games? Awesome hand clapping songs to teach kids, students or camp attendees, with videos and printable lyrics!
Sun prints are so easy, fun, and exciting to make with kids. They are also called cyanotypes and can be made on fabric as well as paper.
I am a rather inactive member of many Facebook early childhood educator groups — inactive because I read and look, far more than I participate. Many of these groups focus on Loose Parts and/or Reggio…
The ulitmate list of super fun jump rope songs, rhymes and chants for kids. Perfect to play at home, school or at camp. How many you can remember?
Learn about natural laxatives for kids constipation to give them quick relief, without the use of Miralax as a stool softner.
Learn about fingerprinting for kids & play detective! Fun ideas for a CSI or spy party or science activity for preschool & elementary ages!
Ever used handwriting without tears? This is a great product for more practice with writing your letters! Each page has the HWOT prompts using boardmaker pictures. I love using these sheets to help my students remember what comes first and it helps parents when I send these home to help teach lette...
Learn how to teach children self-control the right way with this collection of fun yet powerful self-regulation strategies and activities for kids!
Use this free printable crayon template to make crayons out of construction paper for a back to school craft project.
Learn 3 simple and clear steps to teaching kids how to emotionally regulate from a pediatric occupational therapist and mom of 3.
Printable autumn word search for kindergarten or preschool aged children. Each of the words to find have a picture above it to help kids be able to read it, doubling as a fun reading worksheet.
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Process art vs. product art in early childhood education: Discover the role of each approach and explore photo examples.
These days, it’s not uncommon to hear about kids who have difficulty with paying attention. Here are our top sensory strategies to help!
Adults will actually use, appreciate and love all of these!
Discover the joy of creating captivating felt/flannel storyboards. Cut through the dread of the process as you learn the secret to effortless felt cutting.
Preschool and Kindergarten positional concepts such as
