Activity: Use straws as your wind tunnel and blow around objects to see how they move! Try blowing cotton balls, tissue paper pieces, leaves, flower petals, water droplets on sidewalk or plate (add food coloring for extra fun). Try to blow items into cups off the table, tape a maze on the table or floor to navigate the cotton ball around, or see if you can keep the suction of the item to transfer the from one place to another.  Modeling how to do these activities with your child would provide a window for connection. 

Supplies: 

• Straws (increase the interest with varying sizes and diameters) 

• Blowable items- cotton balls, pompoms,  tissue paper pieces, leaves, flower petals, or water droplets. 

• Optional- tape for maze making, cups for catching items or dropping into, or food coloring.

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OT Perspective: Breath impacts self-regulation. Work on these breath activities to support regulation and diaphragmatic breaths access.  Use varying straw sizes to explore the different kind of breaths needed to make the items blow. See how long you can keep the exhale or inhale. 

PT Perspective: To move our bodies in functional ways we need to be able to access our core and diaphragm together. Try completing these blowing activities while laying on their tummy or kneeling.  

SLP Perspective:  This activity can be use to help children identify fast and slow, preposition concepts (in, on, off), and labeling of objects used. Try making different sounds while you are blowing like bzzzzz (buzzing).