Transportation By Land | Blue Bird Day
Blue Bird Day
  • About Us
    • Our Team
      • Our West Loop Team
      • Our Northcenter Team
      • Our Wheaton Team
      • Our Admin Team
    • Our Facilities
      • West Loop and Northcenter
      • NEW LOCATION: WHEATON
    • Careers
    • Diversity Statement
    • From Our Executive Director
  • Our Approach
  • Our Services
    • Pediatric Therapies
      • Neuropsychology
      • ABA Therapy
      • Developmental Therapy
      • Feeding Therapy
      • Nutrition Therapy
      • Occupational Therapy
      • Physical Therapy
      • Social Work
      • Speech Therapy
    • Therapeutic Programs
      • Therapeutic Preschool Program
      • Therapeutic Kindergarten Program
      • Therapeutic Extended Day
      • Therapy Case Managers
    • Virtual Therapy
  • Blog
  • Learn More
    • Blue Bird Day Calendar
    • Our Events
    • Our FAQs
    • Our Resources
    • Our Testimonials
    • Client Case Studies
    • Birdie’s Advice Column
    • Our COVID-19 Precautions
    • Community Partners and Resources
  • Contact Us
  • Menu
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Table Time

1 Activity: Name Train

Materials:

Name Train Craft

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

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

Materials:

Butcher paper

Markers

Toy cars

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

The 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!

Materials:

DIY Rain Stick Craft

Blue Bird Day and meditation

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

Materials:

Butcher paper

Markers

Blue Bird Day and painting

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

Materials:

Yourself!

Blue Bird Day and roll

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

Materials:

Cutting board

Knife

1 carrot

1 zucchini or cucumber

1 serving of crackers

1 celery stick

Tooth picks

Blue Bird Day and mealtime

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.

Example

Language Time

Activity: Drive different vehicles in the snow!

Materials:

Weather permitting, grab some snow, and bring it inside (bucket!).

Take pretend toy cars and have them drive, slide, and race in the slippery, cold snow.

If it is too warm out, use shaving cream, cool whip, or soapy water instead!

Blue Bird Day and snowman blog

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.

Expanding 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.

WEST LOOP LOCATION

1233 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60607

WHEATON LOCATION – Now Open!

140 E Loop Rd, Wheaton, IL 60189

NORTHCENTER LOCATION

1921 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613

CONTACT INFORMATION

(312) 243-8487

info@bbdprogram.com

© Copyright - Blue Bird Day LLC
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • Privacy
  • Terms
Call Now ButtonClick to Call Now Scroll to top