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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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Music Play
Skoog Music Cube
The Skoog is a soft music cube that you can manipulate to create different instrument sounds. It's accessible to children with various disabilities, including physical disabilities.
Sensory Activities
Make Your Own Spring Flower Arrangement!
It's time to celebrate spring! Learn how to make a beautiful spring flower arrangment with your child. It's easy and fun!
Toys
Blind Cane for American Girl Doll
An enterprising mom has created a white cane for her visually impaired daughter's American Girl doll and she's selling them on Etsy!
Sensory Activities, Visual Impairment
How to Host a Sensory Play Party for Visually Impaired Kids
If your child has a sensory impairment like blindness should you still search out sensory play activities? Absolutely! Learn how to make sensory play accessible and host a sensory play...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Visual Impairment
Talking Easter Eggs: Making Easter Accessible for Kids who are Blind
Talking or beeping easter eggs make Easter much more fun and inclusive for children who are blind or visually impaired. We'll show you a couple of places where you can...
Cooking and Kitchen Play, Visual Impairment
What can your blind child learn while baking in the kitchen?
The kitchen is the perfect place to teach your visually impaired child important life lessons. Think about all the things you learn just while making cookies!
Light Play, Toys, Visual Impairment
Top 10 Light Toys for Kids Who Are Visually Impaired
It may seem like $10 won't get you much these days, but here you'll find the best inexpensive light toys for kids who are visually impaired!
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
The one question I can’t answer as a special needs mom during the holidays
There is pain watching a child open a gift you know isn't appropriate for them, and I don't want to deny loved ones the joy of giving a gift. How...
Braille and Literacy, Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Winter Holidays Braille Book List
Find out where you can access your favorite holiday books including the classics in accessible braille and audio formats for children who are blind.
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
To the Special Needs Family Who Just Can’t Do Christmas This Year
A message for all the parents of special needs kids who just can't do Christmas this year: It's OK. Skip it.
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 Arts and Crafts, 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!