Classroom Activities
Activity Guides
Homemade Ice Cream
Making homemade ice cream can give kids the opportunity to practice following directions and building fine motor skills.
Arts & Crafts
Creating can promote mindfulness, stress relief, confidence, problem solving, executive function, resiliency, and fine motor skills.
Play Dough
Making play dough inspires creativity and problem solving, in addition to practicing many fine motor skills & building hand strength.
Sun Catchers
Creating sun catchers provides an opportunity for students to practice fine motor skills and explore new sensory input.
Worksheets & Materials
Download ready to go worksheets, flash cards, and classroom activities for your students to use to practice developmental skills and promote mental wellness.
Daily Check In Sheet
Checking in daily with students can give you insight into how they're feeling, helping you track trends, attune more appropriately, and follow up with students who need it. This sheet gives you an easy way to do that. Print and hand out to your class at the beginning of the day. This could also be paired with a daily journal or writing activity.
Regulation Cards
Students who are dysregulated often have a hard time remembering strategies to help bring back calm. These cards can be used as a visual reminder of strategies that they can use to regulate their bodies and minds. Print and cut out into individual cards. Review strategies when students are calm so that they can more easily recall them when they need to.
SEL Discussion Prompts
Infusing social-emotional learning into every day classroom activities is a great way to target learning in a fun, natural way. These discussion prompts can be used in place of board game cards, attached to jenga blocks, put on the back of chairs for musical chairs, as writing prompts, etc. Not all prompts will be appropriate for all students.
Handwriting Self Monitoring Checklist
Improve student handwriting by empowering them to self monitor key elements of their writing. This checklist can be printed and placed on a students desk to help them learn to monitor their own handwriting.
Square Breathing Visual
Square breathing, also called box breathing, is a proven way to regulate the nervous system and bring calm to the body. To practice square breathing, breathe in for 5 seconds, hold for 5, breathe out for 5 seconds, and then hold for 5 again and repeat. This poster can be printed and hung in the classroom as a visual reminder of how to complete this exercise.
Mood Trackers
Tracking how we feel over time can help us learn more about what makes us feel certain ways, enabling us to look for triggers and solutions. Using 1 of the 3 mood trackers provided, students are able to daily track their mood to look for trends over time.
Tracing Practice Sheets
Improve dexterity and fine motor control for students with fine motor and handwriting difficulty through tracing practice. These practice sheets allow students to practice on uneven lines, shapes, and upper and lowercase letters.
Prewriting Shapes
Before a student can accurately write letters, they have to be able to draw each of the pre-writing shapes. This handout allows students to practice these shapes by copying the model provided. Consider laminating for multiple use.
Maze Activity Sheets
Mazes allow students to practice fine motor control and visual coordination skills which are needed for reading and writing. These maze activity sheets feature 10 different mazes for students to practice.
