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Table Time

Activity: Winter Mittens Song

Materials:

Winter Mittens Song Video

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

This activity focuses on answering “WH” questions and recalling information.

Growing My Skills

1. Follow link to song.

2. Begin song and pause after directions are given and wait for your child to perform action.

Modification: Model motor actions for your child immediately after pausing the song.

Floortime Play

Activity: Build a snowman

Materials:

Felt snowman pieces– Make or buy this. Put this on the floor or hang it up on the wall!

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to promote creativity.

Growing My Skills

Expand by labeling body parts and colors.

Relaxation Time

Activity: Build an igloo using white pillows and blankets and have some quiet time in you cozy igloo!

Materials:

Pillows

Blankets

Chairs to prop up the blankets

Blue Bird Day and meditation

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to help teach your child relaxation skills while slowing and calming their body.

Growing My Skills

Gather materials.

Build a fort.

Spend some time reading winter themed stories in your fort!

Creative Time

Activity: Indoor Snowball Making

Materials:

Baking Soda

Hair Conditioner

Spoon

Dish

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Lessons

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to practice multi-step directions, build fine motor skills, and engage in pretend play with their snow!

Growing My Skills

1. Combine 3 cups of baking soda and half a cup of white hair conditioner.

2. Stir.

3. Start some imaginary play with your snow! You can add figurines to create a winter wonderland!

Movement Time

Activity: Winter Gross Motor Dice Game

Materials:

Instructions

Blue Bird Day and Yoga

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to get your body moving by practicing some winter-themed movements!

Growing My Skills

You can incorporate this into a board game by having each action correspond to a number, and only moving the piece if your child completes the movement.

Make your own life sized board game by placing pillows, couch cushions, or pieces of paper on the floor as “spaces,” have each action correspond to a number of spaces, and see who gets across the “board” first!

Roll a second dice or pick from a deck of cards to see how many times your child should complete each movement.

Mealtime

Activity: Whipped cream and fruit

Materials:

1 serving of whipped cream of your choosing

1 serving of fruit (ex: strawberry, melon, blueberry, raspberries)

Blue Bird Day and mealtime

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to play with whipped cream as an edible sensory activity while trying new or non preferred fruit.

Growing My Skills

Clean table in house, prepare with towels because whipped cream can be messy!

Place one serving of whipped cream on a plate or directly to table, place fruit near whipped cream.

Spread whipped cream around the table with fruit and sample.

TIP: pretend the fruits are sleighs, snowmen, sleds and boots that walk in the snow!

Language Time

Activity: Build a Fort

Stay cozy and warm on a winter day by building a pillow fort!

Materials:

Cushions

Blankets

Pillows

Your child’s favorite book!

Blue Bird Day and kid reading

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to improve your child’s pragmatic language and play skills demonstrated by working on pretend play skills!

Expanding Skills

Work on expanding pretend play skills by playing “house” in the fort…pretend to eat, sleep, etc.

Expand the pretend play scheme by pretending to be construction workers as you work together to build the fort.

Work on receptive language skills by reading a favorite book together in the fort.

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