We’re in the midst of preparing for a few days away to celebrate Christmas with our family. As I mentioned before, I’m feeling a bit anxious about the holidays as change in routine is hard on Maddy (cry-until-I-puke-several-times-a-day kind of hard sometimes). Transitions are very tough for her. We’re learning how to support Maddy through transitions, but mama and dada still have a lot to learn, so we’re not quite there yet.
I decided to prepare a sensory holiday survival kit to try to help us through the next week.
Maddy’s survival kit has:
- Silky material that is calming for her
- Visual timer
- Visual schedule
- Weighted toy
- Toothbrush for oral stimulation
- Razzmatazz for oral stimulation
- Squishy texture ball
- Headphones
- Organic fruit lollipops for oral proprioception
- Vibrating ladybug
- Wall plug-in that shines fish on the ceiling
- Chewy tubes
- Oral jigglers (facial/mouth massagers)
- Play-doh
- Rock-a-bye baby tunes
Mama’s survival kit:
- Chocolate
- Booze
Do you have anything you always pack in your holiday survival kit?
Wishing you all the happiest of holidays! See you in 2013!!
I want your survival kit.
I just added some massage oil too
Don’t worry – you can borrow the kit while we’re there, haha!
Good luck Ash!!! I plan on some booze survival too. xo
Hope Maddy can manage.
Merry Christmas!!!
YOU ROCK! Visual timers, visual schedules, and social stories (when she’s older) have helped us immensely. I don’t even recognize some of the other stuff. The research you’ve done and the resources that you’ve found for your child AMAZE me. You are awesome, awesome, awesome – and deserve every ounce of alcohol.
Well, I’m very lucky to be surrounded by a ton of beautiful, strong women who have shared their secrets with me
Those are great ideas! Hope it goes well.
That is an awesome kit! I should really do something like that for my boy to have on hand when we are out and about.
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Is maddy a deep pressure type of girl? A kid at my old centre used one of these to help regulate: http://southpawenterprises.com/Weight/BearHugs.asp
She is – as long as it’s on her own terms. I really want to get her something like this, but I’m not sure she’ll take to it before she can effectively communicate when she wants it. She’s just started being able to say yes and no to me when I do joint compressions on her… so we’re on our way. Definitely going to save this link though as I think something like this is going to be part of our future! Thanks for sharing