At C is for Cookiez, participants engage in fun, hands-on creative workshops designed to build confidence, independence, executive functioning, and everyday life skills in a supportive environment.
Each session combines creativity, structure, and real-world skill development through guided activities customized to participant interests, age, and ability level.
Workshop Activities May Include:
🍰 Cake Decorating
Participants develop focus, planning, sequencing, and creativity while learning decorating techniques and following step-by-step instructions.
🍪 Baking & Cookie Design
Students practice measuring, mixing, recipe reading, kitchen safety, and organization while building independence and confidence through hands-on baking activities.
🍣 Sushi Making
Hands-on food preparation activities encourage coordination, sequencing, sensory engagement, fine motor development, and independent task completion.
🍓 Fun Food Creations
Creative food projects support imagination, decision making, planning, task completion, and social interaction in a structured setting.
🎨 Crafts & DIY Projects
Participants strengthen creativity, coordination, organization, planning, and self-expression through hands-on project-based activities.
Program Goals:
🧠 Focus & Planning Skills
Participants practice staying focused, organizing tasks, thinking ahead, and completing activities step-by-step from start to finish.
💪 Fine Motor Coordination
Hands-on decorating, mixing, cutting, rolling, piping, and crafting activities help strengthen hand control and coordination skills.
👀 Hand-Eye Coordination
Participants improve visual-motor integration through detailed decorating, food preparation, measuring, and creative projects.
🧘 Sensory Regulation & Calm
Structured creative activities encourage patience, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and sensory engagement in a supportive environment.
⭐ Confidence & Independence
Participants build self-confidence by completing projects independently, making choices, and developing real-life practical skills.
📋 Following Multi-Step Directions
Activities encourage participants to read, understand, and follow structured step-by-step instructions and recipes.
💬 Social Interaction & Communication
Sessions help encourage conversation, teamwork, listening, sharing ideas, and positive social engagement during activities.
📝 Planning & Preparation Skills
Participants help plan future projects, choose activities, and prepare materials and ingredient lists ahead of sessions.
🛒 Organization & List-Making
Participants practice organizing supplies, creating shopping and ingredient lists, and preparing workspaces before activities begin.
🧼 Cleaning & Responsibility Skills
Participants are encouraged to clean up after activities, wash dishes, organize materials, and take responsibility for their workspace.
⏳ Time Management
Activities help participants practice pacing, staying on task, completing projects within a timeframe, and transitioning between steps.
🍽 Independent Daily Living Skills
Cooking, preparation, organization, cleanup, and kitchen-based activities support everyday practical life skills and independence.
✅ Executive Functioning Skills
Sessions are designed to support organization, memory, sequencing, problem solving, task initiation, attention, and independent decision-making.
Participants are encouraged to take part in planning future activities, creating ingredient and supply lists, organizing materials, and cleaning up after sessions to help build responsibility, independence, organization, and everyday life skills.
Activities are customized based on age, ability level, and participant interests.
