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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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smiley face sandwich in a lunch box

Cooking and Kitchen Play, Visual Impairment

Making Lunch Time More Fun for Blind Kids

We've rounded up some tips and fun ideas to help you plan ahead to make your child's lunch quick to assemble, plus fun and healthy too!

LEGO Fun in the Park set

Toys

LEGO® Set with Boy in Wheelchair Figure

The highly-aniticpated LEGO set including a minifigure in a wheelchair is now available for purchase!

rolling the ball by the goal

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.

Baby in O-Rings

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!

child's hand finger painting

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.

5 Pinterest Activities with Glowing Easter Egg

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,...

Resurrection Eggs

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.

blue weighted blanket

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.

child sitting on red wobble chair at desk

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.

DIY stay put play spaces

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.

Madilyn at Build-a-Bear

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.

four Valentine's activities

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!

LEGO play set featuring a boy in a wheelchair

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.

A rose necklace made with the 3Doodler

Tactile Arts and Crafts

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...

making snow slime

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.

One of pages from Sensory Sun book

Toys

ALL PLAY Accessible Toy Guide

ALL PLAY Accessible Toy Guide from Sensory Sun

Christmas Wands 'n' Wheels LEGO Set

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!

toys wearing glasses, with guide dogs or in wheelchairs

Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Toys

#ToyLikeMe Holiday Shopping Guide

Find toys for kids who wear glasses, patches or hearing aids; for kids who use a white cane or have a service dog; or for kids who use wheelchairs or...

girl sits with pumpkin. text reads pumpkin bowling sensory game

Holiday Crafts and Ideas

Play a Game of Pumpkin Bowling with a Braille Twist

Maybe you've been bowling, but have you ever been pumpkin bowling? This multi-sensory game is perfect for Fall and makes a fun Halloween party game, too!

A real and a homemade quijada

Holiday Crafts and Ideas

A Silly Sensory Rattle for Halloween

A quijada is a rattle that's made from a donkey's jawbone and the sound of the instrument is created by the teeth rattling in the sockets. Perfect for Halloween, right?...

Ivan's Scary Skeleton Halloween Wheelchair Costume

Holiday Crafts and Ideas

Scary Skeleton Halloween Wheelchair Costume

Looking for a fun and SPOOKY Halloween costume idea for your child's wheelchair? This year Ivan will be a skeleton in a graveyard!

A girl comparing two bags

Sensory Activities

Make Your Own Tactile Comparing Bag

Are you looking for ways for your blind child or student to experience tactual exploration in a safe, confined space? Then let me show you how to make your own...

Ivan figuring out the hidden shape

Play

What’s Inside? Make Your Own Hidden Shape Puzzle

I love games that that don't require any vision to play. This is an easy DIY puzzle that anyone can play by identifying a hidden shape by feel and sound!

Welcome banner for sports extravaganza

Play

5 Tips for Choosing the Best Extracurricular Program for Your Child with Visual Impairments

Finding the right extracurricular program for your child with visual impairments can be a tedious job, especially if your child struggles with other disabilities or sensory impairments as well. These...