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Ice Cream Color Matching Game
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Kids can practice color matching and fine motor skills as they cut out scoops to put on cones and bars to place over popsicle sticks. Glue the first to pages to the inside of a file...
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Publish a Book
Help your autistic learners to create a story and publish a book. They write simple stories, then turn their stories into books. A picture is drawn for each page of the book and the story is written below. Note: This is a good activity...
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Identifying the Patterns
What's the pattern? Preschoolers examine six visual patterns and continue them to the end of the page (drawing). Other than fine motor skills practice, these patterns also help prepare youngsters for letter shapes. You can even point out...
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Creating Letter-shape Patterns #2
Before learners become writers they need to feel comfortable moving a pencil from left to right in various patterns. Use these exercises to give budding printers some fine motor practice. They complete three patterns by tracing a dotted...
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Alphabet Coloring Pages
Encourage your class to learn the alphabet with these alphabet coloring pages. Each page includes a large block letter and a drawing of an animal for leaners to color in. To make this a project that your pupils will keep with them for...
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Snowman Mobile
Get ready for winter with this snowman mobile worksheet! Young artists create a snowman mobile by coloring and cutting out the pieces of a snowman and attaching them with string, brads, and glue.
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Fancy Sunglasses
Create extravagant, colored sunglasses with your class! For this arts and crafts activity, young artists color and cut out three pairs of sunglasses. After they have finished preparing their frames, they glue colored cellophane to their...
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Nature Art
In this nature art lesson, students take a nature walk and collect items with different sizes, textures and colors. Students use the items they collect to make a collage.
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Self-Portrait
Build a sense of self while honing prewriting and fine motor skills by having your learners with autism draw a self-portrait. The lesson is intended for younger pupils but could be used with learners of any age in need of motor and...
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Moving Left to Right
To get scholars ready for the curves, twists, and turns of alphabet letters, give them this tracing exercise. Early writers follow dotted lines with their finger from left to right first, then trace it with a pencil. The images are...
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Paper Plate Sunflowers
A great way to recall the parts of a flower is to make one. Little learners create sunflowers out of paint and paper plates. They also discuss and label the various parts of their flowers.
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Preschool Coloring Page-Clown Pyramid
This coloring worksheet designed for pre-schoolers features a picture of a pyramid of clowns. There are many small parts and patterns which will require effort and adept fine motor skills to complete, however the lively theme should keep...
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Fill the Wheelbarrow
Practice filling a wheelbarrow with leaves with this arts and crafts template. Learners cut out and color 10 leaves, a wheelbarrow, and a rake. There are no further directions. This could be used to develop counting and fine motor...
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Finger Puppets
Develop fine motor skills and put on a play with these finger puppets! Using this worksheet, learners color, cut out, and glue together finger puppets. There are 4 puppets: a girl, boy, dog, and a lion. As an extension activity, you...
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Letter Aa
In this letter recognition coloring learning exercise, students use their fine motor skills to color the uppercase A and lowercase letter a.
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Tracing Practice
In this early childhood tracing practice worksheet, learners trace the horizontal line, vertical lines, diagonal lines, and circles. They also color the butterflies.
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Sports Lesson Plan
Have your class participate in a variety of sports and craft activities using this resource. With sports as the theme, learners work on art projects. Pupils create soccer ball prints, a three dimensional football, and a sports collage.
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Technoartist
Students explore the Microsoft paint program to examine artwork styles and recognize certain features. In this graphic art lesson, students incorporate computer technology with visual arts while acquiring basic computer knowledge....
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Valentine's Day Fun
Learners choose various shapes and colors to create a Valentine's 'person'. In this Valentine's Day lesson, students design collages, make prints and mosaic pictures. More advanced learners create a Tessellation using geometric shapes.
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States and Capitals Activity
Students explore states and capitals. In this U.S. geography lesson, students practice locomotor skills playing Freeze Tag. Students generate the matching capital when given a specific state name in order to continue the game.
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Making Paper Figures
Students develop fine motor skills. In this paper folding instructional activity, students make a person out of paper. Students use different shapes of paper for the body and used curled paper for the hair.
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Mother's Day Gift Ideas
Students develop their fine motor skills as they make a craft for Mother's Day. For this crafts lesson, students make a craft including bookmarks, coupon books, cards, bath salts, and magnets.
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Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: Grasping the Idea of Evolution
Students compare and their performance of a series of tasks using their thumb and fingers to their performance of the same tasks without the use of their thumb. The class discussion that follows the activity defines and discusses the...
