To Special Needs Child:I Love you!

100 Parent-child Activities

© Lynn Moore

Jun 26, 2006

100 ways to say I love you! to your disabled child.

All children crave time with their parents. Children with special needs are certainly no different. Each time you spend time with your child, you are saying I love you!

  1. Smile
  2. Give a hug
  3. Give a kiss
  4. Blow a kiss
  5. Tickle
  6. Say I love you!
  7. Play a game
  8. Read a book together
  9. Watch a DVD together
  10. Take a walk
  11. Go to see a movie
  12. Go to the park
  13. Go to the zoo
  14. Sing a song
  15. Blow bubbles
  16. Jump on the trampoline
  17. Swing on the swings
  18. Have ice cream
  19. Bake cookies
  20. Have a race
  21. Go swimming
  22. Color a picture together
  23. Play with playdough
  24. Order pizza
  25. Have a picnic
  26. Make pudding
  27. Eat popsicles together
  28. Paint pictures together
  29. Make a tent with a blanket
  30. Play flashlight games
  31. Go to watch fireworks
  32. Look at the stars
  33. Look at the clouds
  34. Call Grandma
  35. Listen to a CD
  36. Watch cartoons
  37. Make pudding pictures
  38. Play in the rain
  39. Go for a car ride
  40. Play on the slide
  41. Camp out in the livingroom
  42. Make a book of family photos
  43. Play pretending games
  44. Make shaving cream pictures
  45. Play Follow the Leader
  46. Make a cereal necklace
  47. Go camping
  48. Say I'm glad I'm your dad!
  49. Use a paper towel roll for a telescope
  50. Use a paper towel roll for a horn
  51. Make a book with magazine pictures
  52. Play Hide and Seek
  53. Dance
  54. Eat popcorn together
  55. Laugh
  56. Grin
  57. Make a snowman
  58. Make snow angels
  59. Go sledding
  60. Work a puzzle
  61. Go ice skating
  62. Play in the leaves
  63. Plant flowers
  64. Pick some flowers
  65. Plant some veggies
  66. Have a birthday party
  67. Plant a tree
  68. Play catch
  69. Hunt for eggs
  70. Say I'm proud of you!
  71. Go to parade
  72. Go to a concert
  73. Go to a play
  74. Say I'm glad I'm your mom!
  75. Hold hands
  76. Talk
  77. Listen
  78. Watch a butterfly
  79. Watch lightning bugs
  80. Start a collection
  81. Say You are great!
  82. Bounce a ball
  83. Spin around
  84. Jump rope
  85. Play hopscotch
  86. Go for a bike ride
  87. Play a card game
  88. Play I see something _____ (red, etc.)
  89. Shoot hoops
  90. Float boats
  91. Fly wooden planes
  92. Play balloon games
  93. Get punching balls
  94. Make a sock puppet
  95. Make paper bag puppets
  96. Watch some ants
  97. Watch a worm
  98. Giggle
  99. Play Peek-a-boo
  100. Draw with sidewalk chalk

Note: All children in this article are fictitious and represent general characteristics of the disability.

© 2006 Lynn Moore No portion of this article may be copied or distributed without the written consent of the author.


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