Homemade stimulation toys for autism! Help!!!

[maplesky7]

http://www.allkindsofbabystuff.com/no_sew_fleece_blankets.html

I like the tape measure idea above for cutting.


and this one comes with pics....

http://collectibles.about.com/od/valuableresources/ss/blfleecethrow.htm


My mom has made so many cute ones.

She made her grandsons dinosaurs and they are in college now and still use them.

She made her granddaughter a really hip flowery one in purples and teals and Megan still uses it and she's a junior in highschool.

My little girls have ones that have baby patterns... ducks and lambs... but they are cozy and great covers for watching movies.

If you notice the butterfly one in the second link I posted in my other post... that blanket is 72" so it's a nice size.

 

[farmin'chick]

Depending on her level of functioning, the I-Spy bottle (also called discovery bottle) is a great idea. When I taught school, my second graders made them using empty plastic water bottles. They made enough so that they could each take one home and could give a collection of bottles to every pre-K - 1st grade teacher in the school...6 sections of each grade. Here is a link with a lot of different ideas http://www.google.com/search?q=i+sp...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[maplesky7]

yeah... I think that looked like a neat idea.

I think me and my girls will do it for fun too.

 

[lurky]

I have a 9 yr old boy with autism that is a customer where i work. He almost never talks and i have known him for most of his life.
I have a digital picture frame and i loaded it with pictures of my chickens, dogs,cats guinea pigs, and rabbit. This boy stared at this frame almost the entire time he was there. I heard him saying kitty, doggy and chicken as well as other comments and giggles. I never heard him talk so much in all the years i have known him. I would suggest buying a digital frame and filling it with things she loves, family, pets........whatever you think would interest her

 

[redhen]

Thanks for the links maple! Luv ya!

 

[maplesky7]

I looove yooooooou... and you're welcome.

 

[erijn5]

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Awesome thought!!!!

 

[mom'sfolly]

I don't know how tactile your cousin is, but some birdseed has a wonderful slippery, almost like water sensation when you run your fingers through it. This might make a fun toy. You can stick your hands in it, play with it, and you won't get dirty, but you might have a few seeds stick to you. You might check out used bookstores for older dictionaries that will have the same type of paper as her Bible. Airmail paper or rice paper have the same texture. If she can do origami, an origami book and some interestingly textured and colored paper might be a good gift.

 

[cassie]

How about a slinky? It's not homemade but they are inexpensive and fun.

 

[cassie]

Or bubbles?