Life Skills Tasks | Independent Work Tasks | Special Education Autism
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Life Skills Tasks | 20 Independent Work Tasks for Special Education & Autism Classrooms
Fill your independent work stations with this task box and clip card set for teaching functional life skills! This "Big Box" of Work Tasks: Life Skills Edition is packed with 20 independent work tasks targeting food and nutrition, safety signs, pedestrian safety, clothing, and kitchen/cooking skills — all essential functional skills for independence.
With over 100 printable pages featuring engaging visuals (a mix of real photos and clip art) for strong visual support, this set fills task boxes, work bins, independent workstations, learning centers, and small group activities for an entire year. Most tasks include clip card format (clothespin tasks!), matching activities, sorting tasks, and interactive wheels — all designed for independent student practice and functional skill building.
★ Perfect for: Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Life Skills Classes, Transition Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Occupational Therapists (OTs), Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Community-Based Instruction (CBI), Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, and 3rd Grade
What's Included — 20 Life Skills Work Tasks:
🍎 Food & Nutrition Skills:
- Task 1: Match the Breakfast Menu Foods
- Task 2: Match the Lunch and Dinner Menu Foods
- Task 3: Putting Away the Groceries: Where Does It Go?
- Task 4: Healthy Foods/Junk Foods Sort I
- Task 5: Healthy Foods/Junk Foods Sort II
🛑 Safety Skills:
- Task 6: Match the Safety Signs
- Task 7: Clip Cards: Stop or Go? (With Colored Prompts)
- Task 8: Clip Cards: Stop or Go? (No Prompts)
- Task 9: Clip Cards: Walk or Don't Walk? (Colored Prompts)
- Task 10: Clip Cards: Walk or Don't Walk? (No Prompts)
👕 Clothing & Dressing Skills:
- Task 11: Match the Clothing
- Task 12: When/Where Do I Wear It Wheels
- Task 13: Sorting Shirts Task 1
- Task 14: Sorting Shirts Task 2
🥘 Kitchen & Cooking Skills:
- Task 15: Match the Kitchen Tools
- Task 16: Where Do We Find It/Put It? Kitchen or Tool Box?
- Task 17: What's the Function? Mix or Measure?
- Task 18: Solid and Liquid Measurement Tools
- Task 19: Solid/Liquid Ingredients Sort I
- Task 20: Solid/Liquid Ingredients Sort II
100+ printable pages total!
Life Skills Covered in This Set:
Food & Nutrition: breakfast foods, lunch foods, dinner foods, menu identification, grocery sorting, healthy foods, junk foods, nutrition awareness
Safety: safety signs, stop signs, walk signs, pedestrian safety, community safety, traffic signals, crosswalks
Clothing: clothing identification, sorting clothes, matching clothing, seasonal/situational dressing, shirt sorting
Kitchen & Cooking: kitchen tools, cooking tools vs. regular tools, tool functions, measurement tools, solid vs. liquid ingredients, solid vs. liquid measurement, cooking preparation.
How to Use These Life Skills Task Boxes:
These hands-on activities are designed to drop right into your existing task box system, work bin rotation, or independent workstation setup. Use them for:
- Independent work systems (perfect for TEACCH-style structured work)
- Task box rotations
- Morning work bins
- Centers and learning stations
- Small group instruction
- 1:1 teaching sessions
- Life skills lessons and functional skill practice
- Community-based instruction (CBI) pre-teaching
- Transition program activities
- Speech therapy and occupational therapy sessions
- Para-led skill practice
This variety of of tasks leaves many differentiation options (with and without colored prompts) so you can meet students at their level and gradually fade supports.
★ Part of the "Big Box" Work Tasks Series! This is one of several "Big Box" Work Tasks sets — each focused on a different skill area. Look for the companion Behavior & Emotions Big Box of Tasks
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