For this month’s Therapy Tune-Up, we are introducing a stress management challenge! It is easy to participate and easy to make progress.

In addition to creating a fun and patriotic decoration for your home, this DIY wreath helps strengthen your coordination and motor planning skills. The actions in this craft also focus on bilateral integration, fine motor skills, and finger and hand strengthening.

Practicing this craft develops your fine motor skills, visual motor skills, and hand eye coordination as you add the color to the shirt.

Practicing water aerobics is a great way to get exercise at any age. Walking from side to side creates resistance and helps strengthen muscles and joints.

The Category Flipbook Game is a fun speech therapy activity that focuses on building vocabulary, word retrieval, and categorization skills.

Engage in building a sensory garden to combine occupational therapy concepts, sensory stimulation, and physical movement. Start with designing, creating, and maintaining a sensory garden to gain the benefits of its cognitive and physical engagement.

The practice of putting a jigsaw puzzle together can help you reduce stress and unwind while spending time alone or with family or friends. Doing puzzles helps develop fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, visual spatial processing, and organization. This practice can improve brain function, uses both sides of your brain, and provides a short term memory boost.

Learning to maintain health as a part of your every day routine is very important to being at a young age, but applies to us all at any age throughout our lifetime. Engaging in physical activity not only keeps your body healthier by keeping it active, moving, and strong, but it also strengthens our mental health at the same time.

For this month’s Therapy Tune-Up, we are introducing a health and wellness challenge! It is easy to participate and easy to make progress.

After learning the steps to create your paper art, origami can become a meditative activity to aid in developing your mindfulness practice. You can use any kind of paper in any color or pattern.

Any practice or activity can be improved with increased mindfulness. Helping your mind and body engage eating with more curiosity can help reduce cravings and establish healthier eating habits.