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Countdown Clock Craft
Telling time and counting down is much more fun with our clock craft! This template comes in different parts so you can adjust for your skill level. Simply choose your template, cut out the pieces, fasten the clock hands to the middle point with a brad or pin.
Celebration Popper DIY Card
Print out this easy template to create your own celebration popper card! There are many options to create the card, so kids can exercise their creativity and imagination.
Firework Ring Craft
Make your own firework ring at home! This is a very simple craft, which only requires one item: pipe cleaners. You can find pipe cleaners in different colors, including metallics! Making your ring is four steps.
DIY Stress Ball
You can use your creation as a fidget or calming toy to destress and reduce anxiety related to online learning. Print free instructions to make a DIY stress ball at home, and read our article: Promoting Success with Online Learning via Regulation Strategies.
Polar Bear Speech Activity
Create this fun and interactive craft to help your child develop their language skills and fluency in a fun way. This activity focuses on articulation, language, fluency, and social skills. Use sentences instead of words on the fish or change the activity to best suit your needs.
Snowflake Scooter Activity
This versatile activity can be changed up throughout the year to a different theme. Different winter theme instead of tree trunk with snow flakes could build a snowman. If you don’t have a scooter board, the kiddos could do animal walks to and from point A to B.
DIY Confetti Poppers
This DIY confetti popper activity promotes visual and fine motor skills with creating and decorating your very own reusable confetti poppers. Sensory motor comes into play with the different textures of the supplies.
Sensory Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
This simple game encourages children to explore their surroundings and associate objects with their corresponding letters.
Family-Friendly Exercise
Exercising together can be a fun way to build a foundation for the future - focus on moving together in the New Year!
New Year Vision Board
Create a helpful resource to stay motivated througout the year! Creating a vision board can help articulate what is important or motivating - for both kids and adults!
Snowball Transfer Game
Oral motor skill development and breath coordination is important skills in eating and speech. This activity increases lip closure, lip strength, breath coordination, and visual-motor planning to adequately move the snowballs from one container to another.
Winter Tracing Fun
Promotion of visual-motor integration and fine-motor skill development for tracing, cutting, gluing, and increased creativity to construct the winter scene!
Make a Snowstorm in a Jar
This activity is great for sequencing, following direction, auditory processing skill development, and sensory input for calming.
Build a Snowman
In this interactive craft, kids will practice a variety of developmental skills by building their own snowman from printable pieces.
3D Christmas Tree Craft
This craft aids in fine motor dexterity and strength, pincer grasp development, line awareness, scissor skills, problem solving, and executive functioning to follow directions and sequencing.
Snowflake Letting Writing
Learning letters is a great way to prepare for school and increase auditory processing, language development and associations, as well as visual motor integration to identify and appropriately draw letters.
Indoor Snowball Activities
This activity focuses on articulation, language processing, and following directions. These activities include a visual motor component to throw the snowball and attempt to knock over cups or hit the target.
Christmas Gross Motor Number Recognition
Get active at home during the holidays. Download these free templates to make your own ornament numbers.
Snowman Name Chain
Fun and Functional Snowman Name Chain! Learning letters, how to spell your name, and the letter formation to write each letter are all functional benefits of this fun activity!
Popsicle Stick Holiday Craft
Decorative and Developmental! Click the button on the image to download a printable page of instructions to do this fun festive craft at home! Making these gingerbread men or snowmen can help enhance imaginative play through pretend!