A network to share best practices for children with special needs
Spend Smart: 5 Under $50!
Just in time for summer here are 5 great solutions for sensory motor skill play that won’t break your budget!
1. Kids Can Too: This home exercise program is packed full of activities to work on pinch strength, pencil skills, hand and wrist exercises and more! Ages 3 and up.
2. Find It: A Plexiglas tube filled with 23 items buried in the beads. Perfect for visual figureground skills, wrist movement and bilateral motor coordination. Best of all it’s lightweight and portable. Use in the car for traveling fun!
3. GumFun: Move the plastic “gum balls” from the globe into the stretchy cloth channel mazes. Works on finger strength and doubles as a fidget to keep hands quiet.
4. Animal Hopscotch: Super for gross motor planning skills like sequencing, hopping and jumping. Uses animal sounds, music and has 3 modes of play. Requires 3AAA batteries.
5. Bubber®: Instead of sand or play clays! This unique modeling compound has a lightweight sensory texture that molds and won’t dry out. Reusable, nontoxic and gluten free Bubber is sure to captivate in any color!
Do you have any favorite low budget tools for summer fun? Please share them with us!
Comment
-
Comment by Cecilia Cruse on June 18, 2012 at 12:07pm -
Thanks Becky! Sounds like mini stain glass creations without the glass! Great suggestion, thanks for sharing.
-
Comment by Becky D. Smith on June 16, 2012 at 1:24am -
I have made many finger exercises for students; finely cut tissue paper and sticky clear contact paper can make many window designs. Students work those little muscles picking up the tissue paper and placing each one on the contact paper. Clear contact is folded over the sheet with tissue paper then teacher will cut a shape from the new art, add a string for hanging in the window and the sun can shine through them making the fine motor exercise a joy to behold.
-
Comment by Helen Wagner on June 11, 2012 at 12:28am
-
Thank you for the great suggestions!
-
Comment by Cecilia Cruse on June 4, 2012 at 9:15am
-
Great suggestion as well on the Playfoam! Thanks!
-
Comment by Chloe R. on June 3, 2012 at 11:23pm
-
Playfoam: bet of all it does not make a mess and does not smell, like similar substances, like Play Doh does.
-
Comment by Cecilia Cruse on June 1, 2012 at 9:03am
-
Sure thing! There are more options as well. You can check them out online under Coordination Mats on this page.
Enjoy!
-
Comment by Kim Brooks on June 1, 2012 at 1:14am
-
I have been looking for something like the hopscotch. Thanks for showing me the item and where to get itl.
Check Out Our Products!
Latest Activity
© 2013 Created by School Specialty Special Needs.
x$('.xg_widget_profiles_blog_list .xg_span-16 .xg_module:nth-child(4) li').each(function(index) { if (index > 9) x$(this).remove() });
You need to be a member of My Special Needs Network to add comments!
Join My Special Needs Network