INGREDIENTS:
3/4 cup Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Honey
3 cup CHeerios
DIRECTIONS:
Line 8×8″ pan with aluminum foil. Set aside.
Cook peanut butter and honey over medium heat stirring constantly until completely melted and blended.
Remove from heat and stir in cereal. Mix until evenly coated.
PLace mixture in prepared pan and press in place.
Refrigerate for 1 hour before cutting into bars.
Store any remaining in refrigerator.
Calming Sensory LED Light Projector Perfect to achieve a sense for physical and mental relaxing effect
Melissa & Doug Get Well Doctor’s Kit Play Set A fun and engaging way to develop Pretend Play and Social Skills
Adaptive Wheelchair Costume Cover Enables disabled children to transform their wheelchairs into fun and interesting costumes and feel more confident!
Tot Shot Modern Basketball Set Exciting learning tool that engages kids in active playtime and can help them improve motor skills, social skills, and hand-eye coordination
Feelings in a Flash Cards Teaching Coping & Social Skills in an Emotional Intelligence flashcard game
Indoor Therapy Swing Promotes coordination and balance, strengthens muscles, and improves motor skills- hours of fun!
Woblii Sensory Ball Helps develop gross and fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, & tactile sensory play
Sensory Science Kit Relieves stress and actively engage the senses
Melissa & Doug See & Spell This learning toy helps Social Skill, Creative Thinking, Motor Skill
Hoot Owl Hoot! Award Winning Cooperative Board Game Cultivates emotional development, shared decision making, positive self esteem, creative problem solving, and develop a sense of community in a non-stressful play environment
Calm Down Time Offers children simple tools to release strong feelings, express them, and calm themselves down
Teen Talk in a Jar 101 interesting questions to stimulate dialogue and avoid awkwardness in teens
Pin Art Sensory Fidget Board Encourages tactile awareness with the placement of a hand or other item.
Date nights are vital, offering a chance to strengthen your bond, reconnect and recharge outside of family responsibilities. It’s an essential investment in both your relationship and overall family well-being.
Raking leaves is a terrific way to get in some heavy muscle work while having fun.
Use that pile of leaves you just made to hide objects. Take everyday household items and stash them in the pile. Your child will have a ball trying to find them in the mix. If your kids are older, make the game a little harder by having them find the objects with their eyes closed.
Let your little ones explore the world outside. They’ll have fun searching for small items to pick up while working on their grip strength.
Create a Fall Sensory Bin filled with leaves, acorns and apples are the perfect way to explore and learn about textures, sounds, smells and sights all while practicing their fine motor skills!
Nature provides us with our own “ball pit” so let’s take advantage! Jump into a pile of leaves! Throw them up in the air and let the sensation of the leaves envelope your child
Activities by the: mommyevolution
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 15 min. + freezing. YIELD: 8 pops
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TOTAL TIME: Prep/Total Time: 20 min. YIELD: 2 cups dip
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TOTAL TIME: Prep/Total Time: 20 min. YIELD: 4 servings.
Kids can make their own baked banana boats with custom toppings using different berries and honey or peanut butter instead of chocolate chips. These baked bananas are also good topped with crushed graham crackers or granola—whatever your family likes. —Rebekah Viers, Taylors, South Carolina
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Recipes from a Taste of Home © 2023 RDA Enthusiast Brands, LLC
1. Pesky Screens
What do screens emit? Blue light. What does melatonin hate? Blue light. No melatonin, no sleep. It’s best to avoid screens for 1-2 hours before bed. Screen use during that time can cause delays of an hour or more in falling asleep. Long-term this can cause many mental and physical health issues. Researchers have also found that the longer a young person spent looking at an electronic screen before going to bed, the worse quality sleep they were likely to have during the night. If removing screens feels like an impossibility, you can buy orange-ish filters for them which helps to reduce the effect. We know it’s tricky, but finding alternatives to screen time and keeping screens out of your child’s bedroom will be seriously worth it in the long-run.
2. Bathe Them To Sleep
Taking a warm bath can help your kids fall asleep. That’s warm not hot. This is important. Our bodies have natural temperature rhythms. One of our body’s signals for ‘sleepy time’ is a drop in body temperature. It happens naturally and sparks an increase in melatonin.
Taking a warm bath one to two hours before sleep will artificially raise our body temperature, which will then drop slowly when we get out of the tub into a cooler environment. Noticed those post-bathtime yawns? That’s your body temperature drop signaling to your brain that it’s time to send us to sleep. But, if the bath is too hot, we stay hot and bothered for longer and the technique isn’t as effective.
3. Story Time
If you don’t already have books into your nightly routine, try adding it in right away! Whether it’s independent reading or reading aloud as a family, reading at night is a habit you want to start early. This is something they can continue throughout their lives.
4. Therapeutic Weighted Blankets
Therapeutic weighted blankets, wraps and lap pads benefit children with special needs, autism, sensory processing disorder, ADHD, hyperactivity and more. These products provide gentle pressure that hug the body to produce a calming and relaxing effect.
The proprioceptive input on the body gives the child the input they crave to relieve stress, focus attention at school and obtain the sleep they desperately need. Try these simple sensory motor solutions to make an enormous difference in their daily life.
5. Reduce the Focus on Sleep:
Kids can have trouble shutting their brains off for the night. So, instead of increasing that anxiety by insisting that it’s time to go to bed (“now!”), consider focusing more on relaxation and keeping your child calm.
Try teaching your child deep breathing techniques and create a routine to calm their body.
Calming Visual Input
Relaxing Smells
Quieting Tactile
Lulling Sounds
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