Place two buckets in opposite sides of the room.
Fill one bucket with objects (Lego pieces, beads, plastic eggs, marbles, or anything that the child can pick up using tongs).
Have the child use the tongs to pick up an object from one bucket, run across the room, and drop it in the other bucket.
Place the objects in container or bucket full of sand or water.
Create an obstacle course for the child to go through.
Place the apples (or any other objects) on one end of the room.
Instruct the child to pick up one apple and lay flat on the ground or on a blanket.
Ask the child to roll 5 times, crawl through the tunnel, and jump 10 times on the trampoline, then put the apple in the basket.
Support your child by monitoring his arousal level, as vestibular input can be alerting. Start slow, take breaks as needed, ask the child if he wants to continue or stop and if needed add proprioception input.
If you don’t have a tunnel, you can have your child crawl under the table or just on the ground.
If you don’t have a trampoline, ask the child to jump over a pillow or just jump in place.
Place a bucket, plastic container, basket, or any other container that could fit a few bean bags in it at the center of the room.
Place bean bags in different corners of the room.
Clear the area for a clear path to all bean bags.
Hold the child’s feet and ask the child to walk on his/her hands (a.k.a wheelbarrow walking).
Help the child to reach the bean bags by wheelbarrow walking towards the bean bags.
When the child reaches a bean bag, ask the child to place the bean bag on the back of the neck (resting between the shoulder blades).
Ask the child to wheelbarrow walk towards the container and drop the bean bag inside.
Repeat these steps until all the bean bags are in the container.
Present the child with a clean box/basket/bucket of separated pairs of socks.
Provide the child with additional empty baskets, one for each member of the family.
Show the child one sock and ask him to find the other sock that looks the same (i.e. the matching sock).
Fold the socks together (or have your child fold them to work on additional skills such as motor planning and eye-hand coordination) and ask the child to put the pair of socks in the right basket, based on whose socks are they (mom’s, dad’s, child’s, sister’s, etc.).
For this activity, you can use small game pieces like the cherry pieces from Hi Ho Cherry O, Monopoly pieces, and other small objects.
The objective of the board game is to be the first to put all of your cherries in the bucket.
Provide each player with tweezers.
Following the rules of the game, instruct each player to pick up the cherries using their tweezers and placing them into their bucket.
Depending upon the tweezers (or small tongs) used, you may instruct the child to reach for the stem rather than the cherry itself.
This game can be played by up to 4 children and social skills can be addressed while playing.
