Fill up the plastic container with beans, rice, or sand.
Add coins or beads to the container and mix with the selected container contents.
Ask the child to use his hands and pull out the different objects you hid inside the container.
To grade this activity, you can hide a variety of items in the container and ask the child to sort the items and put them in separate smaller containers.
On a thick piece of paper, draw a line.
Give your child a bowl of beans, beads, buttons, or large seeds.
Ask the child to place them one after the other on the line you drew.
For grading, you can make the task a little more difficult with a circle, or any other shape. In addition, you could ask the child to use tweezers to pick up and line up the items on the line.
For this activity, all the materials should be green colored and spread across the room.
Hang the stockings at different corners of the room at a child reach level.
If using a scooter board, have the child lay prone and propel the scooter board around the room to collect the different items and place them in the stockings.
If you do not have a scooter board available, ask the child the perform different animal walks to collect the items and to receive the sensory input (i.e. bear walk, crab walk, frog jumps, etc.)
Draw a simple shape (e.g. house, boat, tree) using the markers on the paper.
Ask the child to lay prone on the floor resting on his elbows.
Ask the child to use the tweezers to pick up the beads or pom-poms and place them on the shape you drew on the paper.
Using a paper cup, a styrofoam plate, or a piece of play dough, instruct the child to place the spaghetti vertically.
Provide the child with cheerios or beads and have him string the small objects onto the spaghetti.
If using different color beads or cheerios, you can have the child either sort the items into the different color groups or work on patterns (e.g. yellow-red-yellow-red…)
