A Way to Relieve the Stress of Handwritten Valentines For Special Needs Kids

Preface: You can use any clear stamps and inks.  Get Creative!!

Ask any parent who has a child with special needs how much anxiety can be surrounded around holidays.  While other children are receiving class lists and skipping off to address them all, I am left cringing at the thought of my child even attempting to do this.  She struggles with handwriting as do a lot of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

So, I was looking around my cottage at all of the craft supplies I had, I was still not excited to help her make Valentines. Until I spotted the CTMH Alphabet Stamps.  What if I loaded up the block the letters of each child’s name and she stamped it?  So, we gave it a try.

I wanted her to do as much as possible, so she read the letters of each child’s name off to me and I added them to the block.  Then she stamped on bookmarks.  The best part of the Hodge Podge set was that there were several of each letter, so we could spell Savannah, Jeremiah and more!

After she stamped this side, the second side was YOU ROCK with paint splatters.  Then we attached packets of Pop Rocks for the treat.