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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Kids Gotta Move--Safely! | |
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| Envisioning the Out-of-Sync Child | |
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| What Is Sensory Integration? | |
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| What Is Dysfunction in Sensory Integration (DSI)? | |
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| Sensory Integration Therapy | |
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| SAFE Activities Help Kids Get in Sync | |
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| SAFE Stands for Sensory-motor, Appropriate, Fun, and Easy | |
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| Setting Up SAFE Activities | |
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| Do's and Don'ts | |
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| The Seven Drops | |
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| SAFE Activities for Sensory Systems | |
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| Touch (The Tactile Sense) | |
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| Activities for the Tactile Sense | |
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| Messing Around with Un-Paint | |
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| Shaving Cream Car Wash | |
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| Slimy Shapes | |
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| Sand Dunes | |
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| Feely Shapes | |
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| Playdough | |
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| Heavy Hands | |
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| Hide-and-Seek with Little Toys | |
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| Simon Says, "Make My Supper!" | |
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| Touch Pantry | |
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| Paw Prints | |
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| Pretzel People | |
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| Holiday Ornaments | |
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| Magic Tissue Transfers | |
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| No-Mess Messy Play | |
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| Go Away, Glue! | |
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| Tactile Road | |
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| Dramatic Dress-Ups | |
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| Mummy Wrap | |
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| Hot Dog Roll | |
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| Splendor in the Grass | |
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| Nature Bracelet | |
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| Slurp Party | |
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| Balance and Movement (The Vestibular Sense) | |
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| Activities for the Vestibular Sense | |
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| T-Stool | |
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| Matthew's Teeter-Totter | |
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| Tra La Trampoline | |
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| Barrel of Fun | |
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| Gentle Roughhousing | |
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| Rowboat | |
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| Fishing Boat | |
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| Airplane | |
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| Horsey | |
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| This Is the Way the Lady Rides | |
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| Fox and Gingerbread Man | |
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| Wheelbarrow Walk, Piggyback Ride | |
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| Double Dancer | |
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| Upsy-Daisy Cottontail | |
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| The Laundromat Game | |
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| Swing, Bat, and Pitch | |
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| Batter for Batter | |
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| Swing and Kick | |
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| Earthquake | |
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| Voyage to Mars | |
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| Old Lady Sally | |
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| Sally Go Round the Sun | |
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| Looby Loo | |
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| Body Position (The Proprioceptive Sense) | |
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| Activities for the Proprioceptive Sense | |
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| Crash Pad | |
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| Inner Tube Sport | |
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| Bottle Babies | |
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| Fun with a Rope | |
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| Plastic Bag Kite | |
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| Paper Bag Kick Ball | |
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| My Backyard's Clean | |
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| Pound Cookies | |
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| Hammer and Nails | |
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| Box Sweet Box | |
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| Positions, Everybody! | |
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| Stretchy Bands | |
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| Become a Butterfly | |
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| Fabric Tube Tricks | |
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| The Crawl | |
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| The Creep | |
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| Rockabye Baby | |
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| Bump and Guess | |
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| Knee or Elbow? | |
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| Touchy Feely | |
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| Puzzle Piece | |
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| Push That Ball! | |
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| Tunnel Obstacle Course | |
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| The Shopping Game | |
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| Jiggling on the Dryer | |
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| Body Length Guesstimation | |
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| How Many Thumbs? | |
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| Hold Up the Wall! | |
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| More Ideas for Proprioception | |
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| Seeing (The Visual Sense) | |
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| Activities for the Visual Sense | |
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| Pokin' O's | |
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| Schedule Board | |
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| Citrus Balls | |
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| Guesstimation with Objects | |
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| Beanbag Jai Alai | |
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| Go Fishing | |
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| Peanut Hunt | |
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| Billions of Boxes | |
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| Gutter Games | |
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| Gutter Track | |
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| Gutter Canal | |
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| Cool and Colorful | |
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| Robin's Rainbow | |
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| Squirt Them Down | |
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| Metronome Code | |
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| Flashlight Tag | |
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| Hearing (The Auditory Sense) | |
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| Activities for the Auditory Sense | |
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| Slide Whistle Stretch | |
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| Hear, See, and Move | |
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| Paper Plate Dance | |
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| Tapping Tunes | |
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| Matching Sounds | |
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| Scale Songs | |
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| Jack and Jill | |
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| Musical Hoops | |
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| Holiday Rhymes | |
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| Fork and Cork Vibrations | |
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| Buh, Duh, Guh, Blow! | |
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| "WH" Questions | |
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| Bird Calls | |
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| Smelling (The Olfactory Sense) and Tasting (The Gustatory Sense) | |
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| Activities for the Olfactory and Gustatory Senses | |
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| Smell and Tell | |
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| Pomander | |
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| Smash and Smell | |
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| Scented Flash Cards | |
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| Smello | |
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| Taste and Tell | |
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| New Taste Sensations | |
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| Let Us Eat Lettuce | |
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| SAFE Activities for Sensory-Related Skills | |
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| Oral-Motor Skills | |
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| Activities for the Oral-Motor Skills | |
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| Chewy Necklace | |
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| Applesauce Through a Straw | |
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| Spirited Shepherds | |
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| Puffin' Stuff | |
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| Magic Garden | |
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| Wind Competition | |
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| Blow Away Blues | |
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| Bubble Gum Blow | |
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| Pumpkin, Pumpkin | |
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| Kiss the Mirror | |
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| Dinosaur Morning | |
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| Jeff Cirillo's Lucky Latte | |
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| Motor Planning | |
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| Hands on Toes, Fingers on Nose | |
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| Shoe Box Path | |
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| Push-Me-Pull-You | |
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| Obstacle Course | |
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| Metronome Workout | |
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| Mrs. Midnight | |
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| Fine Motor Skills | |
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| Clothespin Togs | |
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| Bubble Wrap Burst | |
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| Toothpick Constructions | |
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| Squirting Race | |
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| Squeeze a Breeze | |
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| Bunny Ears | |
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| Tor-Pee-Do | |
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| Doodle-Doo | |
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| Piggy Toe Pick-Up | |
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| Bilateral Coordination and Crossing the Midline | |
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| Fence Painting | |
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| Going on a Bear Hunt | |
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| Clapping Bubbles | |
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| Peanut Butter Jar | |
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| Marble Trails, Tire Trails | |
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| Beanbag Mania | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Recommended Materials | |
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| SAFE Activities Toy Chest | |
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| Special Items and Suggested Sources | |
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| Suggested Books and Other Media | |
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| Where to Find Recommended Materials ... and More | |
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| Activity Cross-Reference Chart | |
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| Index | |