Fine motor crafts that work on scissor skills, using tape, and using two hands together are great for skill-building. But choosing a craft often depends on your child’s abilities. You don’t want to over help, but you do want to make sure that you know when to work on a step together (also known as…
Get off the screen and get moving with this Holiday Obstacle Course
Make sure to enjoy the holiday season with some fun activities that get kids off their screens, moving, and into the holiday spirit. These activities are easy and fun without costing a fortune. Get creative for kids who have sensory and motor difficulties or trouble completing multi step sequences. For example, using a gift or…
Need to Energize for the Holidays? Try these dances
Try this Energizing exercise sequence from Body Activated Learning These sequences are designed to connect children to their bodies without being overstimulating and leaving parents and teachers with even more wiggly children than before the “wiggle break”. This time of year we want to keep our kids alert and focused without expecting that they start…
Squishy Sensory Holiday Crafts
Whether your child loves to get messy making projects like slime and putting shaving cream on their skin in the bathtub or is the total opposite and doesn’t even want to touch sticky or slimy things, this craft is still for you! A kid that “loves mess” will have fun making these crafts. The kid…
Do you have a Love – Hate Relationship with Technology?
As a parent, I struggle with the balance between technology and getting my child out, active and engaged. It seems like our children prefer iPads over hanging out with friends face to face or going out on a walk to explore. If you are a parent of a child with additional learning needs, is on…
10 Sensory Stocking Stuffers
This season, picking the right holiday stocking stuffers can make all the difference. Check out this YouTube Video to learn more about how to identify your child’s sensory preferences and figure out the best gifts for you child’s stocking or under the tree or scroll down to start shopping! Born2Calm ADHD Fidget Toys Stress and…
Routines for Managing a New Reality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Upgrading Sensory Diet Activities for a Digital Generation
I am going to make a bold statement. The Sensory Diets of the 90’s and early 2000’s are outdated. What worked for the Millennial generation is not the same as what will work for Gen Z. The biggest reason: technology. Let me explain. The iPhone was released in 2007. By 2017, the number of Apps…
7 Classroom Ideas for Sensational Teachers
by Aubrey Schmalle OTR/L How important is it that my classroom is “sensory friendly” and digitally aware? Every year, there are many blog posts encouraging you to set-up a sensory friendly classroom. And some of you may be asking, why focus on this when the children in my classroom have so many different learning needs? …
