Ideas for Educational and Creative Play

 

1) A blowing game. Place two chairs about two to three meters apart, with their backs facing each other. Take two plastic cups and poke a hole in the bottom of each. Thread a piece of string through each plastic cup and tie the two strings from one chair to the other. Take your positions and try to race your cups to the finish line by blowing inside them.

2) Create a color chart using clothespins to help your child learn to match and recognize colors. Cut small squares out of colored cardstock and glue each one to the gripping end of a clothespin. Next, cut larger squares and glue them onto a strip of sturdy cardboard. Explain to the child that they need to clip each clothespin onto its matching color.

3) Another game with clothespins that helps with letter recognition. Use a marker to write letters on the gripping end of the clothespins. The child must then clip them correctly onto words written on strips of cardboard.

4) A memory game using just boiled eggs and an egg carton. Paint only the side of the egg that goes into the carton, creating pairs of eggs with different colors. Place them with the painted side down in the egg carton. The goal is to lift the eggs one by one and find all the pairs. Instead of colors, you can match numbers, letters, shapes, or a combination of all of them if you want to increase the difficulty level.

5) Are you having a hard time getting your child to take a bath? A highly enjoyable idea is to create colored foams using shaving cream and food coloring. Give the child a paintbrush and let them paint the bathtub tiles while taking their bath.

Source: AUTISM - The Family Book
83 step-by-step activities
KATERINA MANOUSAKI

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