Work boxes

Using task boxes in your special education classroom allows students to work on their fine motor skills. But you may be wondering how you can offer a variety of task box choices without spending a ton of money. Today, I am sharing 3 DIY task boxes you can make right now for your special education classroom. These task boxes are great for fine motor practice and can be used for morning work, independent work stations, or centers.

Are your students needing to build their fine motor muscles? Learn how using fine motor task boxes can help.

Work boxes for autism students helps them to strengthen their ability to work independently when working on essential skills!

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

You all LOVED the 4 simple task boxes I shared here, so here are 4 more! SIMPLE task boxes that don’t cost a fortune and are low level for independent work and beginning learners are so hard to find. What’s even harder to find is ones that are appropriate for ANY age. These 4 hit […]

Need a quick set of task box ideas for autism classrooms? We have a set just for you! Learn how and why you need work tasks for your special education students. Includes a FREE printable task box activity!

Task boxes can be highly beneficial for special education students for several reasons: They provide structured learning by way of presenting learning materials in an organized way, they provide visual supports, repetition & practice, and skill generalization. Task boxes can also be customized to meet each individual student’s needs and IEP goals, promote independence, and […]

Looking for hands-on & interactive task boxes for kindergarten that builds independence, cooperation, fine motor, and more? Absolutely!

Create mini activity boxes for toddlers and preschoolers using this container of 5x7 photo storage cases! These activities are great for on-the-go at restaurants, to use for older siblings while nursing a newborn, to use in kids' morning bins, or to use as quiet time activities! These activities wor

Need some tips and ideas for how to set up busy boxes for toddlers and preschoolers? This post walks you through the steps to put busy boxes together for your young learners at home or in the classroom. Click the pin to learn how to set up your own busy boxes today!

There is a reason behind every component of a independent work system. Do you know the 4 questions each work system should answer? Click through to find out.

For our learners who need to work on foundational learning skills, such as simple matching, I have always love creating hands on task boxes put-in tasks and color sorting tasks. My classroom closet always looked like it could be featured on an episode of hoarders. I kept every shoe box, coffee container, baby jar, and

Engage students with disabilities in vocational training and improving work skills with these Work Task Boxes! It is the perfect way to easily address job training and work stamina with a variety of activities to include students of multiple ability levels, specifically students in SpEd or Autism Units. PLEASE NOTE: This is a bundle of the Dollar Store Work Task Boxes - 20 Activities with Visual Directions and MORE Dollar Store Vocational Work Task Boxes - 21 MORE Activities with Visuals…

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You NEED these Task Boxes for special education to target functional skills, math skills, executive functioning, and vocational skills. And you can do all of that with everyday items from the Dollar Store and this resource. Are you supposed to be teaching math skills, functional skills and vocational skills to your students in Special Education or those with Autism? Not sure where to start? This will make it easy… and you can get everything you need from your nearest Dollar Store! Functional…

Overwhelmed and understaffed my first year as a special education teacher in the self-contained classroom, I discovered that implementing an effective independent workstation helped my students become more successful and independent. Click to learn how I got control using task boxes and independent workstations in my special education classroom. My students loved the differentiated math, language arts, science, and social studies curriculum with age appropriate clip art and real photographs.

Do you want to try task boxes, but think your students are too high for them? They aren’t! I find it easier to do higher level academics in task boxes than coming up with new ways to practice lower level skills such as “put in”. This post may include affiliate links. First, let’s talk about […]

Looking for a way to organize independent work time for your special education classroom? Students gain more independent and personal responsibility skills with an organized Especially Education Task Box Independent Work Station. Ideas to organize task boxes for independent time or for work time.

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I was happy with how I had our task boxes/ independent work activities organized (you can see the post and pictures here), but it just wasn't giving us enough space. We would often have activities and work stacked on top of the cabinet and it was so visually distracting! Check out the binders we decided to make to organize the tasks by topics! We hole-punched most of the tasks and put them directly into the binders. We put the tasks that couldn't be hole-punched into large ziplock bags…