My Mundane and Miraculous Life

Six Ways to Use an Exercise Ball in Sensory Activities

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Inside you’ll find: Super simple sensory activities that can be done with an exercise ball with no prep! Fun ways to use an exercise ball for sensory therapy! This post may contain affiliate links that help support my family. Read more about how that works here. My little Loopy has Sensory Processing Disorder. His biggest […]

Car Wash Sensory Bin

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We were bored. It was hot. I wanted the boys to do something together and outside. Went to my handing dandy pinterest board. Nothing jumped off the page at me. Decided to grab a bunch of vehicles. Goodness knows we have enough of those lying around! Then I grabbed a couple “washing utensils.” Then I […]

Finding Out It’s Sensory Processing Disorder

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“Sensory” is quite the buzz word in early education these days. Maybe you have heard of Sensory Processing Disorder. I used to think that all it involved was kids not liking certain sensations on their skin, like squishy things, or wet things.  It’s actually far more complicated. My kid didn’t fit into THAT category! Phew! […]

Letter Hopscotch

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  Time for another installment of “Serious” Fun Saturdays!   Loopy has been very interested in “reading” books on his own. He knows almost all his letters and sounds, but Upper and Lowercase letters still mess him up. Loopy came up with this great game for learning about letters, using a common kitchen utensil.   […]

Baby-safe Slime

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  This post may contain links that help support my family. If you’d like to know more, click here. Now that Lumpy is one, he wants to do EVERYTHING that Loopy does. Unfortunately, he still likes to mouth stuff so he doesn’t get to participate in some of our learning activities for safety reasons. When […]