This activity provides opportunities for sensory engagement (i.e. through vision, touch, smells, sounds, and eventually taste) in order to promote interaction with various food items during mealtime.

This activity promotes fine motor skills and addresses tactile defensiveness.

This activity promotes stereognosis (identifying an object through touch instead of vision), visual perception, and tactile input. This activity bridges the connection in our brains between what we see and what we physically feel. We use these skills for tasks, such as efficiently locating items in our backpacks without looking.

This activity provides tactile input and works on finger isolation by creating a picture of a turkey using the child’s fingerprints.

This Thanksgiving activity helps promote pincer grasp and works on cutting skills as well as hand strengthening as the child pinches the clothespins and places them as feathers on the turkey’s body.

Fall activity to promote sensory processing with dry leaves and glue while creating a unique art project.

This fun and sticky activity is great for the development of the child’s tactile skills. Together with an adult’s help, the child can create a colorful bowl and practice cutting skills and pincer grasp as well.

This activity works on pincer grasp and body awareness skills by creating a penguin out of different size pom-poms and glue.

This activity promotes pincer grasp and visual motor skills by creating and decorating an acorn shape.

Who doesn’t like to pop the bubbles on the bubble wraps? The bigger, the better! This simple activity promotes pincer grasp, eye-hand coordination, and hand dexterity.