I just love when tasks can be made simply by recycling items from the home. This blog site has several task ideas that are very useful for learning basic skills. http://theprincessandthetot.blogspot.com/2011/08/whats-on-tray-aug-8-12.html

Interactive learning

This is a great interactive site to help students learn basic skills. http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/

Color Wheel

Love this idea for color matching! Go to the following link to find out how you can make your own matching color wheels. http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2010/08/color-wheel-match.html

Teaching Life Skills

The article at the following link is a very good example of what teaching life skill students is all about. They need to learn skills to function in the real word and learn more independence. http://www.howtodothings.com/education/a4393-how-to-teach-life-skills-in-special-education.html

Food Tray Vocational Task

This is a great vocational food service task. There are many other vocational tasks as well as functional daily living tasks in Table Top Tasks. http://classroomtasksforspecialneeds.com/

Safety Kit Assembly

Great vocational task to learn about safety as well as assembly and following directions. Task found in Table Top Tasks http://www.amazon.com/Table-Top-Tasks-Dianne-Matthews/dp/1105279111