In this blog, we will discuss 100 activities for autistic kids that you can incorporate into your daily routine to improve your child’s development. These activities have been divided into different development skills.
Table of Contents
100 Activities for Autistic Kids
Sensory Activities
1. You can use a sensory ball to press in your palm for body awareness
2. Play with sensory beads and sort them by color in different bottles
3. Finger painting using watercolors and putting the child’s hands on the drawing book
4. Making Different Shapes with Clay and Slime
5. Popping bubbles with a Bubble Toy
6. you were Hiding the toy in the sand and asking the child to find it
7. Using Headphones for Auditory Stimulation
8. Let the kids explore different textures for tactile stimulation
9. Use of light toys for visual stimulation
10. Stretching and Creating Shape Using Theraputty
11. Make a sensory bottle
Fine Motor Skill
12. Using Toothpicks to Penetrate Clay
13. Practising buttoning and zipping
14. Stringing Beads on Thread
15. Practicing Latchig Toys
16. Putting a dot, you can put a dot on your child’s copy and tell the child to stick a bindi where I have put a dot.
17. We are sorting using 3 fingers like cereals, black gram, and white gram.
18. Take a small box with a small hole in it and then ask your child to put sensory beads through the hole
19. Picking up small beads and cotton balls using a plucker
20. Playing with interlocking toys with your baby
21. Ask the kids to put clothespins on any cardboard
22. Practice cutting paper with safety scissors
Gross Motor Skill
23. ball catch throw
24. Jump on Trampoline
25. Playing on a swing while standing
26. Balance on Tricycle
27. Practice of dance to music
28. Crawling through Tunnels
29. Learning to kick a football
30. Kids doing daily yoga poses
31. Climb on a Rope ladder
32. Walk on slide
33. Hopping and jumping practice
Social Skill
34. Gather the children together and make them play among them
35. Teach magical words to children, write sorry, please, thank you, hello, bye, etc
36. Talk to children by making eye contact
37. Practicing conversations with kids and parents to enhance the social experience
38. Asking children to take turns in the park for the playing games
39. Teach your child to make gifts for his friends and ask him to write his feelings on the card
40. Whenever someone is with the parents, the child should be encouraged to wish good morning or namaste to the elders.
41. Imitation activity was done in groups and children were asked to do jumping, hopping, tapping and others were imitating him.
42. Read social stories with your child
43. Play games cooperatively
44. Practice children with Greet others by waving a hand or thumbs up
Communication Activity
45. Use OF PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (PECS)
46. Dance to rhymes and sing with the child
47. Use of Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
48. Play with talkative toys and imitate them
49. Pretend an imaginative play with your kids
50. You can teach kids the names of people living nearby and ask who this is.
51. you have to show your child some pictures like an apple, spoon, animal, fruits, etc., and ask the child what it is used for and what color it is.
52. Invite your child’s friends together and let them have fun
53. Teach the concepts to your child like up-down,under-on, and near-far, and take tests regarding these activities related to concepts
54. Using simple and short sentences for a child’s better understanding
55. Do sentence imitate activity and stories reading activity with your child
Creative Activity
56. Finger and footprint with watercolors
57. Ice cube painting using watercolors
58. Asking your child to smell all the flowers while walking in the park
59. Use of magnetic sensory beads
60. Use of lighting up toys
61. Use of Educational boards for learning or better understanding
62. Make a dye craft
63. Make a building with blocks
64. Make a scrapbook with your child
65. Rolling out bread
66. Decorate cooked food with your child and tell them techniques
Cognitive Development
67. Play matching games like identical matching and nonidentical matching
68. Play sorting games based on colors, shapes, and size
69. Use wooden educational toys for learning like shapes, alphabets, counting, animals, birds, fruits, and vegetables
70. Play games like “What’s in the Box” and guess the sound
71. Solve puzzles with kids
72. Play activities like “Complete the sentence” example: How ——you?
73. Make patterns with the help of blocks or beads
74. Count daily used objects
75. Assemble 3d Wooden puzzles
76. Doing science experiments
77. Visit Museum or historical places
Outdoor Activities
78. Gardening
79. Play with friends
80. play in tunnels, swings, slides, etc
81. Play with gravel and sand
82. Flying kite
83. Tricycle race with friends
84. Visit to zoo
85. Collect and sort leaves or rocks
86. Take a fresh smell of park Flowers for sensory stimulation
87. Play a group play like kho kho, cricket, volleyball, badminton, etc
88. Take a Meditation class
Calming Activities
89. Make imaginative shapes with clouds
90. Gym ball exercises
91. Reads Favourite books
92. See bubbles floating
93. Swinging gently on the swing
94. Doing paint as you wish
95. listening music
96. Take a warm bath
97. Play and fun time in the sensory room
98. Physical movement on the rocking chair
99. Listen to funny jokes or audiobooks
100. Play in parks.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Which activities are done for autism?
Autistic children can benefit from sensory activities, communication activities, social skills activities, fine motor activities, gross motor activities, calming activities, outdoor activities, creative activities, and cognitive development activities.
Which Therapies are done for autism?
Autistic children can benefit from Sensory therapy, Speech therapy, Occupational therapy, and Analysis Behavioral Therapy (ABA) are mainly done for autism.
What are two types of matching activity?
There are two types of matching (1) Identical Matching- Match the exact same pictures.
For example, if you and your brother wearing matching outfits, this is an example of identical matching.
(2) Non-Identical Matching- Match different pictures but the object is the same.
As you and your brother wear a T-shirt different in color, and size. But you both cover under a nonidentical match because you both wear a T-shirt, no matter what color and size you wear
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