Make beautiful art with homemade food stamps! These food stamping activities for children with autism are fun, simple and inexpensive. These activities are a great way to build fine motor strength and precision, engage your child with autism in sensory activities and to have a lot of family fun.
Materials needed for these activities :
- Lemons, celery & brussel sprouts
- Contruction paper
- Adhesive googly eyes
- Pompoms
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For children who are hesitant to try new foods, they are also great activities to help children become familiar with various foods and to enjoy interacting with them.
These are 3 of our favorite food stamping activities for children with special needs at my learning center. I am always on the lookout for fun and engaging ways to help my little ones build fine motor skills and get the sensory input they crave.
3 Food stamping activities for children with autism
Lemon Paint Stamps from Kids Play Box
This activity is so much fun and a really great way to teach your child to use their entire hand to hold an object. It is also the perfect activity to teach your child about force – pushing down just hard enough but not too hard to make a lemon print on the paper.
Celery Stamped Rainbow Fish from Crafty Morning.
This sweet activity requires just a few materials that you probably already have at home. It’s a little bit more difficult than the lemon stamping activity because it requires more precision to stamp the celery on the paper.
When we do this activity at my learning center, we read The Rainbow Fish before or after.
Brussels Sprouts Stamped Bunny from I Heart Crafty Things.
I love this little bunny! This is one of our favorite Springtime crafts. It is also perfect for Easter.
Tell us about your adventures in food stamping in the comments below! ♥
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