There’s nothing more fun than pairing a good book with winter gross motor activities for kids. Introducing an activity with a book provides such great context, giving kids a sense of purpose behind what they’re doing. *This post contains affiliate links. Read more here. One of my favorite books and winter activities for kids is Snow Dance by Lezlie Evans. I’ve come back to it year after year because of the cute, catchy story and because it provides the perfect opportunity for little ones to create a one-of-a-kind motor activity to go along with it! No snow outside? Why not create ... Read More about Winter Gross Motor Activities: Snow Dance
Indoor Winter Activities: Let’s Go Skating!
Looking for fun indoor winter activities for your kids? This fun skating activity will allow your little ones to glide across any floor - it will really get their hearts pumping! Ice skating is one of the best winter activities for kids when it comes to building strength, coordination, and balance. It takes a lot of balance to maintain an upright position on those tiny strips of metal! What You'll Need: -Paper plates -Music What to Do: Give each child 2 paper plates to stand on. Turn on some music and let them go crazy! Tell them to try to skate with the rhythm of the music -- ... Read More about Indoor Winter Activities: Let’s Go Skating!
OUR TOP 5 POSTS OF 2013
Thank you to our readers for supporting The Inspired Treehouse! We're passionate about what we do here at the blog: inspiring others with thoughtful, creative, playful activities that enhance development and overall wellness in kids. We've only just begun this blogging adventure, but we're excited to have gotten an overwhelmingly positive response from all of you already! Here were our readers' favorite posts from 2013: 1: What Does Sensory Really Mean? One of our resident occupational therapists takes a closer look at sensory processing. 2: All By Myself: Encouraging Independence ... Read More about OUR TOP 5 POSTS OF 2013
SENSORY ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS: DIGGING FOR SUMMER
Sensory Activities for Kids As much as my kids and I love playing in the snow, after a couple months we are yearning for some warm sunshine again. Looking for great sensory activities for kids? This fun little indoor activity helps kids remember spring and summer and look forward to the changing of the seasons! WHAT YOU’LL NEED: -9x13 baking dish (or any deep household container you may have on hand) -white 8x10 paper -markers -flour WHAT TO DO: On the white paper, draw pictures of spring and summer items (butterfly, bird, green grass, swing, sunshine, flower, rainbow, ant, etc.) Keep ... Read More about SENSORY ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS: DIGGING FOR SUMMER
CAN SANTA FIND HIS SLEIGH? A GROSS MOTOR GAME
Christmas gross motor games and this movement activity is a little twist on one of our other gross motor games, Blind Play. Blind play is an excellent way to stimulate the sensory system, develop listening skills, and encourage balance reactions, body awareness, and body control. Can your kiddos help Santa Find His Sleigh? WHAT TO DO: Fill a room with soft obstacles (pillows, cushions, large balls, stuffed animals). Place a laundry basket or other container on one side of the room (this will be the sleigh). Have one child or an adult stand near the sleigh. From the opposite side of the ... Read More about CAN SANTA FIND HIS SLEIGH? A GROSS MOTOR GAME
RHYMING REINDEER LANGUAGE ACTIVITY
We might be occupational and physical therapists, but we can spot a great language activity from a mile away! We’re very lucky to work with some incredible speech language pathologists who amaze us by working speech, communication, social, and cognitive skills into unique, creative activities for kids every day. Today’s activity was created by one of our dear friends, speech language pathologist Julianne Wolf. She came up with this cute speech therapy rhyming activity called The Rhyming Reindeer game as one of her speech therapy activities for the holidays. WHAT YOU’LL NEED: Clothespins, ... Read More about RHYMING REINDEER LANGUAGE ACTIVITY
PEPPERMINT GLITTER CHRISTMAS CRAFT
The smell of peppermint automatically makes me think of the holidays. We use glitter all year long for various crafts because kids love it! In this fun activity, we will turn sweet little striped peppermints into glitter to decorate some cute name tags for the holidays! This Christmas craft will thrill the person that receives the gift and they’ll smell wonderful too! This activity lets kids use their big AND little muscles all at once! The perfect Peppermint Glitter Christmas Craft for Coordination! WHAT YOU’LL NEED: Peppermints, storage bag, red construction paper, black sharpie ... Read More about PEPPERMINT GLITTER CHRISTMAS CRAFT
MINI CLAY CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS
One of our favorite traditions during the Christmas season is to put a tree in each of our kids’ rooms. They have so much fun making their own tree unique and special. This year, we decided to let them make some of their own homemade clay Christmas ornaments too, using oven hardening clay. They loved this and I think it will become a new part of our yearly tradition. WHAT YOU’LL NEED: oven-hardening clay, jewelry rings, an oven! WHAT TO DO: Pick up some oven-hardening clay in as many colors as you would like. We grabbed every shade we could find! Set the kiddos loose to design their ... Read More about MINI CLAY CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS
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