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Modulation games and activities are designed to help children develop the ability to regulate their energy levels, emotions, and responses to sensory input. These activities provide opportunities for children to practice transitioning between high-energy and calm states, build body awareness, and improve impulse control. By engaging in playful games that require starting, stopping, and adjusting movement, children learn how to manage their bodies in space and respond appropriately to enviro

This handout includes 6 games for teachers to play with their classroom out on the playground.

Cognitive problem-solving games are crucial for preschoolers as they enhance critical thinking, memory, and concentration, foster social and language skills, and prepare children for academic challenges. Through engaging activities, these games promote persistence, creativity, and emotional regulation, laying the foundation for holistic cognitive development in early childhood.

Games with rules promote teamwork, fair play, sportsmanship, and understanding of social boundaries. They also enhance cognitive skills like problem-solving and strategic thinking and can present children with the “just right” challenge in a safe and playful environment.

Classroom games to build foundational SEL skills such as modulation, self and body awareness, and impulse control.

This handout includes lists of descriptors that teachers or parents can use to play search and find games with kids. This can be played while driving, on a bus, while walking, while eating, or any other time. Introduces children to new vocabulary and increases awareness of their environment.

Here are 5 Occupational Therapist recommended games to play with your class indoors to support sensory and motor development in children.

Classroom games to build foundational SEL skills such as modulation, self and body awareness, and impulse control. For children aged 3-5.