Table Time Activity: Name Train
Skill Check
This activity focuses on letter and shape recognition and fine motor skills.
Growing My Skills
1. Gather paper, writing utensil, glue and scissors.
2. Write letters of name for child. Trace or write if needed on outlined squares.
3. Draw/Outline train engine.
4. Assist child with cutting.
5. Paste engine and train cars in correct order to spell name on separate piece of paper.
Floortime Play Activity: Build your Own Busy Road
Skill Check
TThe goal of this activity is to spending time together in a playful, imaginative way. There should be limited structure and a lot of pretending.
Growing My Skills
On butcher paper taped to the floor, draw winding roads, stop signs, stoplights, trees, and buildings! Have your child help by decorating their new town any way you like!
With your child, drive around your new town using their favorite toy cars, race cars down the street, or talk about all that you see!
Relaxation Time Activity: Making a Rain Stick!
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help you child engage and participate in learning coping strategies/exercises. Using the Rain stick as a coping skill to calm your body down/redirect attention/engage in surrounding. You can add to the transportation theme by adding things like car stickers, drawings, etc.
Growing My Skills
1. Gather materials.
2. Please help guide child through this craft (hand-over-hand or prepping certain materials may be necessary) as it is more challenging (please see Pinterest link for step-by-step instructions).
3. Ask your child questions that will help them connect with the craft they are making; While making the calm down stick, ask you child things like “how should we decorate?” “do you like this or that?” This is a great way to learn more of your child’s like and dislikes, while also helping them get creative!
Creative Time Activity: Stop Sign Craft
Skill Check
The goal of this activity helps engage listening skills and following directions in a fun way!
Growing My Skills
1. Gather materials.
2. Help your child make a stop light, ask them questions like what color goes first, what color goes next, etc.
3. Ask your child what each color means.
4. Model your body stopping (for red light) slowing down (for yellow light) and going fast or normal (for green light.)
5. Have them practice with their body or cars/trains!
Movement Time Activity: Bear Walks
Skill Check
The goal of this week is to walk around like bears on land!
Growing My Skills
Good bear walks look like walking on your hands and feet with straight legs; however, most children need to bend their knees to help in propelling forward.
You can be a mama/papa bear and baby bear as they bear walk and follow you around, or the other way around.
Or they can bear walk between puzzle pieces and a puzzle board to transfer the pieces.
Mealtime Activity: Edible Cars/Trains
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to play with food, making a preferred toy out of vegetables.
Growing My Skills
Wash vegetables, wash hands!
Wheels: cut 4 large carrot circles, 4 cucumber circles and 4 zucchini circles. Take two tooth picks, place wheels at both ends of the tooth pick pairs.
Car body: Place celery stick or crackers on top of the tooth pick frames.
See if it will move forward and backwards!
Optional: raisins for passengers traveling in the car.
Language Time Activity: Drive Different Vehicles in the Snow!
Skill Check
The goal of this week is to increase your child’s expressive and receptive language skills within a winter transportation scheme. Target your child’s ability to produce expanded verbal output, as well as following directions.
Growing My Skills
Collect the snow/snow alternative and bring inside.
Play car race and car crash with your child.
Describe the actions, feelings, and sounds the cars make.
Have your child follow your directions for where to place the cars and how to play out the scene.
Focus on pragmatic language skills by taking turns with the cars.