Pillow Mountain Delivery Service
Build a ‘Pillow Mountain’ obstacle path across your living room floor using 5-8 pillows. Arrange them so your child must step or jump carefully between them without touching the floor.
Skill: Motor Planning
Motor planning is the ability to assess a motor activity, plan and organize how to carry out that motor activity, and finally implement motor skills to achieve that motor activity.
Motor planning leads to the ability to carry out a motor skill automatically after enough practice.
Flying Unicorn
Step 1: Cut out a picture of a unicorn.
Step 2: Glue it on a paper plate.
Step 3: Hole punch around the edges of the plate.
Step 4: Lace string through each hole, and tie a knot to secure it in place.
Step 5: Option to curl the strings, add jewels, or color the unicorn for more fine motor opportunities.
Step 6: Watch the strands fly in the air as you spin & wave it around! Enjoy!
Puppy Tug Toys
Preparation:
Step 1: Lay out an old shirt flat on the table. Optional: Draw shapes on the shirt with non-toxic markers to address pre-writing skills.
Step 2: Take fabric scissors and begin to cut strips to your desired length. Maintain approximately 2-inches of width.
Step 3: Take one of those strips & use it to tie a group of 3 strips together. Make sure to leave approximately 2-inches from the end.
Step 4: Braid the 3 strips.
Step 5: Take another strip & use it to tie the braid together at the bottom.
Tips:
- Use scissors that match your child’s hand dominance.
- Hold the fabric in place as they cut.
- Use 3 various colors of fabric to make teaching them braiding skills easier.
As always, please provide assistance and supervision as needed.
Share your creation with your lovable dog & enjoy!
Easter Egg Hunt with Spoons
Hide the Easter eggs around the room.
Designate which color eggs each child gets to hunt & place each basket in a corner of the play space.
The child is only allowed to pick up an Easter egg that matches the color they were given, and they must place it on their spoon.
Children will hunt for their eggs, and once they find them, instruct them to use both hands to hold the spoon, as they walk to their designated basket to drop off the egg (to work on bilateral coordination).
If the egg falls on the way over, the child must start over.
This challenges the skills involved in patience, concentration & pacing.
If you want to challenge your children and add more sensory input, place some obstacles in the way (i.e. walking on or over pillows, walking around cones or chairs, etc.).
Snowflake Sisters
This activity was inspired by our kiddo’s favorite movie involving a strong sisterly bond, a talking snowman, and the journey to discovering their strengths.
Blue Snowflake
Step 1: Fold construction paper in half.
Step 2: Fold it in half, again.
Step 3: Cut small snips off the corners & edges of your folded paper.
Step 4: Unfold & enjoy your magical snowflake!
Step 5: Try a new cutting & folding pattern to see which you like best.
Purple Snowflake
Step 1: Outline the shape of a snowflake with a marker.
Step 2: Trace the outline with glue from a glue bottle.
Step 3: Sprinkle salt on the glue & discard the extra salt that landed elsewhere on the paper.
Step 4: Let dry.
Step 5: Use watercolor paint to dab the salted lines & watch the magic travel through the snowflake!