Table Time Activity: Playdough Mat
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to focus on fine motor skills and tactile play.
Growing My Skills
To grow skills, work on ABA patterns to create the cat’s hat!
Floortime Play Activity: Green Eggs and Ham
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to promote engagement and play with your child. Have the stuffed animal pretend to eat the green eggs and ham. Support your child to imitate play idea.
Growing My Skills
Expand this skill by having pretend money and a pretend Dr. Seuss café.
Support your child in role-playing by pretending to be the worker or customer.
Relaxation Time Activity: Practice Deep Breathing
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child with their coping and deep breathing skills. While also practicing following directions and working on their imaginary play skills!
Growing My Skills
Talk about different emotions with your child (happy, sad, angry, etc.) and help them come up with choices to help their body when having those big feelings! (going for a walk, hugging a stuffed animal, drinking water, etc.).
Creative Time Activity: Make Cat in The Hat
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child follow directions and build their creativity and fine motor skills.
Growing My Skills
Dr Seuss Cat In The Hat Instructions.
Cut black construction paper into squares or rectangles to glue onto the edge of the paper plate.
Cut out white construction paper into shape of a hat.
Glue hat onto the top of construction paper.
Color hat in stripes (red and white).
Draw on cats face with marker.
Paper plate.
Movement Time Activity: Hop on Pop Hopscotch
Skill Check
The goal of this week is to work on hopping on one and two feet!
Growing My Skills
Use the tap to create hopscotch squares in an open area of your home.
You can use a coin, beanbag, ball, etc. with a picture of “Pop” on it. Have your child toss “Pop” into one of the squares, and see if they can make it across without hopping on pop (i.e., without using the square Pop is in).
Read “Hop on Pop” as your child goes across, having them try to hop with each word. Make it even harder by seeing if they can stop and balance wherever they are when they hear the word “Pop.”
Mealtime Activity: Green Eggs and Ham
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to involve child in at least one family tradition surrounding food. Eating not required.
Growing My Skills
Shop and prepare traditional food. Child can participate in preparation or not.
Prepare a short story involving food prepared using pictures, social stories, verbal stories or printed books. Encourage child to sit for at least 3 pages of the story, referring to the physical food in front of them.
TIP: to encourage participation with the book and the food, ask your child to “point to (food)” in the story and “point to (food) on table” modeling the action for them.
TIP: Encourage your child to act out the story in front of them using the physical food.
Language Time Activity: One Fish, Two Fish
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to work on your child’s receptive language skills such as following directions, identifying color, size, and number, as well as pragmatic language skills for turn-taking.
Growing My Skills
Work on size, color, and number concepts by creating different fish with paper and crafting supplies.
Take turns “going fish” with your homemade fishing pole.
Utilize language to describe the different fish you each catch.
Work on turn-taking language skills by taking turns with the single fishing pole.
Ask siblings to join! It’s excellent practice to work on turn-taking and pragmatic language skills with other children, even brother or sister!