Activities to do at home
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Inexpensive Suggestions for entertaining children with vision impairments during holidays
Each activity is designed to specifically enhance your child’s development in some way as well as being fun.
Christmas Holidays are coming!
What about making your own scented decorations?
Looking for a fun activity to do with the family this Christmas? Sarah-Jane Wood, a teacher from RNIB College Loughborough, talks through how to make scented decorations.
Here are a couple of simple colouring pages for you to download christmas colouring
Or maybe you would like to make some 3d festive characters. Xmas-printable-cones
Just print them out, grab some scissors, glue and coloured pencils and then you can…
- Use them as finger puppets to act out a Christmas story
- Add name labels to their tummies to make festive seating markers
- Thread string through the top and pop them on the tree as extra decorations
- Sit them on the mantle piece – maybe add a little glitter?
- Line them up and play miniature skittles!
SNOW DAY ACTIVITY; painting in the snow.
click on the picture to find an entertaining snow day activity. Paint the snow or decorate your snowman. Adds great contrast.
Painting in the Snow
What you need for painting in the snow:
Liquid food colouring
Water
Squeeze bottles
Fill the squeeze bottles with water, then add 10 drops of food colouring. Shake to mix well.
Do you want to build a Snowman? Click on the picture to try this cotton wool pad snowman.
Or how about making some Puffy paint Snowflakes? Click here
Or maybe this lovely puffy paint snowman.
Edible Christmas Wreath Ornament
A lovely multi sensory activity that also helps fine motor skills.
Home made Peppermint Creams
follow this link to another great sensory activity. You can use cookie cutters as suggested in the recipe or roll the mixture into small snowmen.
As an option try other flavours instead of peppermint. see if your child can tell which flavour is which.
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Gloop: Hand strength, counter tactile defensiveness
It’s Autumn!
There are lots of simple, fun things to do in autumn.
Get your boots on and swish through the leaves!
Create an autumnal treasure basket. You can include soft leaves, crunchy leaves, conkers and pine cones.
Or what about making some Scarecrow Shapes great for shape, colour, hand strength and fine motor skills
Or give your child a large piece of brown paper or card and get him to draw round his forearm and hand with a thick pen.
Cut the arm out to make the tree trunk and branches. Then stick real leaves , or paper or material on to create an autumnal tree. This will help develop body awareness as well as an understanding of the seasons.
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Blow football fun
So, what about home made blow football? Follow the link to the video on the Duplo facebook page to learn how to make your own version with duplo or lego or download Make your own blow football game. If your child has some useful vision, choose colours that they see best. Improve fine motor skills and hand strength by getting him or her to help build the pitch. Use it as a chance to work on colour recognition too. Blow football is a fun way to improve oral motor skills, to help you child chew and swallow.
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