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Discover fun and creative ideas to encourage play time with toys, light play, music, multi-sensory activities and tactile art. Also find seasonal holiday crafts!
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Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Receive a Braille Letter from Santa
Santa Reads Braille! Your child can receive a braille letter from Santa himself!
Light Play, Sensory Activities
Best DIY Light Table Tutorials & Ideas
Have you ever considered making your own light table or light box? Here you'll find five of the best DIY light table tutorials, ranked from the more difficult and complex...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Santa’s Little Hackers: Free Adapted Toys for Kids with Disabilities
Santa's Little Hackers is a seasonal toy drive to adapt toys. They make simple modifications to the electronics of toys and give them away.
Toys
Special Needs Rib It Ball from Playability Toys
The Rib It Ball is a large inflatable ball that is light, easy to hold on to (because of those "ribs" along the ball) and comes in bright contrasting primary...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Tactile Art, Visual Impairment
Fall Sensory Art Projects for Visually Impaired Kids
Choose from five wonderfully crafty art projects adapted for blind children that celebrate fall! Make prints and wreaths with apples and leaves, create your own tree, or decorate pumpkins!
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Make Your Own Jellyfish Wheelchair Costume
Looking for a fun wheelchair costume idea for Halloween? How about making your own jellyfish wheelchair costume... complete with lights!
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
7 Accessible Halloween Activities from Sensory Sun
Sensory Sun provides activities, curriculum and resources for families with kids who are blind or visually impaired, and their Halloween posts are really a treat!
Advocacy, Toys
#ToyLikeMe Brings Disability Awareness to the Toy Box
#ToyLikeMe is bringing revolution to the toy box by advocating major toy companies to include representations of disabilities in their product lines.
Toys
LEGO® Set with Boy in Wheelchair Figure
The highly-aniticpated LEGO set including a minifigure in a wheelchair is now available for purchase!
Play, Visual Impairment
Everything You Need to Know About Goalball for Visually Impaired Athletes
Goalball is a fast-paced and active physical sport that does not require vision to play. It's a fun recreation for children who are blind.
Toys
O-Rings Toys for Special Kids!
Maeve & Cynthia have created a new fun toy for children with visual impairments - O-Rings. Find out more about this toy!
Sensory Activities, Toys, Visual Impairment
The Best Sensory Play Toys for Visually Impaired Kids
We've collected the best sensory toys for blind kids! Find tactile toys, sound toys, scented toys, tasty toys, light toys and vestibular toys.
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Light Play
5 Glowing Easter Egg Activities
We've rounded up five of the greatest Pinterest ideas for your child to have fun with glowing Easter eggs! Your kids will enjoy going on a glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt,...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Resurrection Eggs: A Tactile Easter Story
Resurrection Eggs are filled with tactile objects that tell the traditional Easter story of Jesus and the resurrection.
Sensory Activities
SensaCalm: Weighted Blankets, Wraps, Lap Pads & More
SensaCalm sells high-quality weighted blankets, wraps, lap pads, and more with customizable options and in a variety of colors and prints.
Behavior, Sensory Activities
Kore Wobble Stool: A Chair for Kids Who Can’t Sit Still!
The Kore Wobble Stool design gently rolls with your child's natural movements, so he or she stays supported and comfortable while they wiggle around.
Fine and Gross Motor, Sensory Activities
Hold Everything: “Stay-Put” Play Spaces for Infants and Young Children with Sensory Impairments and Other Special Needs
This guide provides you with DIY Stay-Put play spaces for infants and developmentally young children with sensory impairments and other special needs.
Play, Sensory Activities
Build-a-Bear Workshop: A Multi-Sensory Experience!
Ivan went to Build-a-Bear with his friend Madilyn and they had a great time building bears! This is a perfect activity for kids with special needs.
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Visual Impairment
Top 10 Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids Who Are Blind
Celebrate love and friendship all month long with these multi-sensory Valentine' sDay activities for kids with visual impairments!
Toys
LEGO Made Us All Proud!
LEGO has included a young man using a wheelchair as part of the new “Fun in the Park” play set, which should be available this summer.
Tactile Art
3Doodler Pen & Accessories
The 3Doodler Pen is a 3D printing device that can be used within minutes. It heats special plastic string and you control what you draw and create just as if...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Visual Impairment
7 Holiday Sensory Play Ideas for Kids Who are Blind
Holiday multisensory play ideas for kids who are blind or visually impaired, from cold dough to a five-senses touch book and a tactile find and search game.
Toys
Canes and Wheelchairs in LEGO Sets? Let’s Make it Happen!
Let's help the #ToyLikeMe campaign get wheelchairs and white canes represented in LEGO activity sets. All you need to do is vote!