Tactile Discs and Musical Fun

200 items for Sensory Bins and Sensory Tables

29 items to get the fidgets out!

I think we had a read-a-thon

Graham and Parker (age4) and their friend Garland (age3 with Autism) reading some awesome book titles from my Usborne book store! We ended up reading books for half of the day!

Featured in this post are:

That's not my bear

That's not my dolly

That's not my elephant

       Ted and Friends (read along to cd)

Max and Millie start school

Bedtime

Some of these books were Usborne titles that we have owned for quite some time. Others were Usborne titles that arrived with my new consultants kit.  You can read more about that in my post located here, entitled books, books, books. I am really happy with how things are going so far. I already have several recruits and a few sales! I am shocked at how well it is going for me. I did not expect to do well at all. I did badly with Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, and Tupperware.

I rarely made sales and never had any recruits with those three companies. So far Usborne is seriously amazing and very surprising. It makes sense in a way though, I guess when it boils down to it... Your kids need good books for many reasons. However no one actually needs that tube of lipstick, or that blush, or that new piece of stoneware, or that awesome pasta strainer, or that cool set of bowls with matching lids. I don;t know why I ever tried to be a Pampered Chef consultant, or a Tupperware consultant, or a Mary Kay consultant. 

All I did is waste money, time, energy, and fail miserably at all three, despite my efforts.

I am seriously not really even trying and already Usborne books has given me 10x the sucess I ever even fathomed from it. I am glad I went for it. Seriously you can not beat $10 to sign up as a new consultant. It's a win/win situation and you get almost $300 in books and materials to get started, and it is mostly... seriously mostly all books in the box. Not stupid books, but books that are awesome! How flippin' cool is that!?!

Graham is reading "That's not my bear" and feeling the texture patch on the bear's paw

Garland and her Mom reading "Bedtime" together, it is a good book for speech therapy

Parker's favorite is "That's not my Bear",  we have owned this book for over a year now.

Graham is reading along to the audio CD playing for "Ted and Friends"

Garland is very interested in this Audio Cd for the book "Ted and Friends"

Garland is reading "That's not my Dolly" and feeling the tactile sensory areas of each page!

feeling the hair bow in "That's not my Dolly"

Wish List Giveaway!!

I have another way for you all to potentially win free books from me. I will enter anyone with a Wish List on my book website automatically into a monthly drawing. All you do is go to my book store website, click on register, then click on shop after you register, after that you browse for books that you like for your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, etc, and when you find a book you like, click on "add to wish list". This will be an ongoing thing. You can change or add to your Wish List at any time and always be entered into the monthly drawing to win some books from your wish list!! Click here to go to my book store to get your Wish List started
http://www.myubam.com/s3866

Color, Dancing, and Easter

We have made some beaded window charms, dyed easter eggs with baking soda, vinegar, and fizzy easter egg color tablets, had a few egg hunts, and had many  positive breakthroughs with our friend Garland who has Autism. She says anything we prompt her to say, interacts socially with hugs, hand holding, dancing while holding hands and will explore a lot of fun messy stuff in the backyard!!  We are happy to know that we are helping a little with her daily progress!

We made and added some beaded window charms

close up of beaded window charms

fun on the light table

stacking window blocks

floor to wall magnet center with home made and store bought magnets

close up of magnet baskets

Graham and Garland have found a special bond that has made the boundaries of Autism that keep her from hugging and interacting through touch non existent when they play together!              ;)  

in a play tent being silly

holding hands and dancing

so much fun!

joy!

a very very very special hug

in the play tent with Graham and Parker

playing

so busy

photo taken by Parker

Graham hunting eggs

Parker hunting eggs

getting ready to dye eggs

putting in the fizzy color tablets

adding eggs

adding baking soda

adding baking soda

adding baking soda

adding vinegar

checking out the eggs in the fixxy color tablet, vinegar and baking soda mixture

so fizzy!

cool looking eggs

pretty!!

mixing and pouring the left over colored vinegar and baking soda mixture

fun!

bouncy time!

Since Garland has Autism, it is hard for her to participate in an egg hunt with eggs placed all over our outdoor play area, so I decided to place a few eggs on the trampoline for her. She loved that idea and hopped on in to collect her eggs!! She ran around them, gathered them, explored them, are some of the candy in them, and had a good time!!!!  success!!!!  


The trampoline made her hair all crazy with static, it was really cute!!

checking things out

running around the eggs

gathering eggs 

putting eggs in the bin

eating the candy

opening another egg

concentrating

running after a rolling get away egg!!  GOT IT!

looking in the bin with eggs

eating candy in a really fun way!

Graham and Parker joined her to BOUNCE!!