Balloon Volleyball
Area: Gross Motor, Math/Science
Daily Routine: Outside, Playtime
Developmental Age Range: 25-30 Months, 31-36 Months
Description:
• Hit the balloon back and forth with the child to see how many times it can be passed back and forth.
• When hitting the balloon, counting can be modeled and practiced with the child.
• When using glow sticks in the balloon (optional), this activity can also be done in the dark.
Needed Materials:
• Balloon
• Glow sticks (optional)
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Banging at Midline
Area: Fine Motor
Daily Routine: Playtime
Developmental Age Range: 1-6 Months, 7-12 Months
Description:
Give the infant two objects that fit in his or her hands. Find objects that will bang and make noise. Model with the infant, taking their hands and bringing them to midline to make the noise. Celebrate when the infant does it, scaffold down the support when he or she succeeds.
Needed Materials:
Two toys that can be hit together safely.
Bathtub glow stick party
Area: Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Sensory
Daily Routine: Bathtime
Developmental Age Range: 13-18 Months, 19-24 Months, 25-30 Months, 31-36 Months
Description:
Turn off the lights and have a bathtub glow stick disco! Help your young child with low vision work on looking with a purpose, visual fixation, scanning, visually guided reach, grasping, and more!
Activate a glow stick (or many glow sticks) and put them into the bathtub with your child and turn out the light.
Allow you child to find, reach, grasp, and play with the glow sticks that are floating in the water.
If the purpose of the activity is to visually engage a child to use their vision in order to fixate on an object you may want to start with 1-2 glow sticks.
If the child is working on visually guided reach, motivation to reach, grab, and manipulate objects more glow sticks may be motivating and more appropriate.
**Keep in mind, the more water there is in the bathtub the more difficult it will be to grab the glow sticks.
Needed Materials:
Glow sticks: as many as appropriate for the exact skill you want to work on.
Bean bags
Area: Gross Motor, Fine Motor
Daily Routine: Playtime, Outside
Developmental Age Range: 25-30 Months, 31-36 Months
Description:
Child works at either finding or just picking up beanbags then throwing them to a basket. Task gets hard when specific colors are requested into a specific basket. Teacher can hold the basket at a certain location to promote use of a specific field or side.
Needed Materials:
colorful beanbags and some baskets
Bear Snack
Area: Fine Motor, Independence/Self-Help
Daily Routine: Mealtime
Developmental Age Range: 31-36 Months
Description:
Help your child spread peanut butter on a piece of toast (this can be done with an untoasted piece of bread but the toast is easier to spread peanut butter on). Then help them cut a banana into slices (only 3 slices are needed, but if you cut the whole banana into slices, the slices can be laid on a cookie sheet, placed in the freezer, and then taken out later for another easy, yummy snack). Place one banana slice in each of the top corners for ears and the other banana slice goes in the middle for the nose. Two raisins are then used for the eyes and a line of raisins for the mouth. Blueberries can also be used instead of raisins. Now go ahead and enjoy your super cute snack!
Needed Materials:
1 Piece of Bread
Peanut Butter
1 Banana
Raisins or blueberries
Plate
Child-Safe Kitchen Knife
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