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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Therapeutic Coloring Page Pack
For adults, coloring is a creative activity that combines the calming power of the action of coloring with concepts and ideas from occupational therapy. This activity is designed to enhance mental cognition, improve fine motor skills, and support mental health.
Self-Care Summer Bucket List
This summer is all about self-care! Self-care is something that can easily be put on the back burner for busy parents, caregivers, or professionals.
Category Flipbook Game
The Category Flipbook Game is a fun speech therapy activity that focuses on building vocabulary, word retrieval, and categorization skills.
Therapy Tune-Up: Health & Wellness Challenge
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.
Therapeutic Thinking Crossword Puzzle
Therapeutic Thinking Crossword Puzzle is a cognitive activity that combines the brain-stimulating challenge of crossword puzzles with words that center around mindfulness and calming. The aim of this activity is to improve mental cognition while promoting relaxation and mental health.
Sound Hunt
This simple sound hunt is a great way to improve articulation, phonemic awareness, and listening skills. It can be done anywhere, even as you take a walk through your neighborhood or at a park.
Balloon Volleyball
Play this simple game you can set up at home to improve balance, strength, range of motion, and hand-eye coordination. All ages can play!
Therapy Tune-Up: Homemade Putty Recipe
Use household ingredients to make this therapeutic tool for stress relief and strengthening. Many individuals use stress balls as a tool for relief. Putty can be made at home as an alternative for stress relief or other uses such as easing arthritic pain.
Therapy Tune-Up: Memoir Writing for Mental Health
Write the story of your life and use the practice of writing for self-affirmation. Writing your life story can have a positive effect on your mental health as well as cognitive functioning. Particularly when focusing on difficult events, writing can help you release feelings of tension while allowing your mind to make sense of chaotic experiences.
Therapy Tune-Up: Macrame Wall Hanging
Start a new therapeutic hobby and and enjoy the meditative practice of macrame! Practicing macrame utilizes fine motor skills through finger and hand strengthening. Work on improving visual motor skills, hand eye coordination, executive function with sequencing, and stamina.
Therapy Tune-Up: Guided Imagery for Arthritis
Learn how to reduce pain from arthritis through visualization and use your mind to help you overcome difficulties. Pain can release stress hormones throughout your body which can cause additional damage. Guided imagery is a way to use a meditative practice to stop your body from releasing stress hormones.
Spring Reset Window to Renewal
This activity uses the metaphor of spring cleaning to promote self-care, organization, and mental decluttering. Participants will reflect on their physical and mental "clutter," then plan small actions to refresh their environment and routines — a little OT for your life!
Mindful Sudoku Puzzle Practice
Mindful Sudoku Puzzle Practice is a therapeutic activity that combines the cognitive challenge of Sudoku with the calming practice of mindfulness. The game focuses on improving mental cognition and promoting mental health.
Springtime Wordsearch
Engage visual perceptual skills with a fun word-search! Celebrate the change of season and remind yourself of some of the words we think of when we think springtime. It is easy to print this out or use a device to find each word.
Spring Into Health Habit Tracker
With the changing of the seasons, it is a great time to revisit our routine and incorporate new healthy habits! One easy way to “spring into health” with the spring season is to keep track of our movement. It is so important to move every day, and all movement matters!
Sensory Cards for Creating Calm
Try this simple way to reach a place of calm when you are feeling anxious or stressed. Each card has ideas to engage one sense (and one wildcard to incorporate a random sense!) After you’ve printed out your cards, give them a shuffle, then choose a card.
The Alphabet of Self-Care
Self-care looks different for everyone and sometimes it is difficult to decide how you want to engage in self-care. Our Self-Care Alphabet can give you a new idea to incorporate into your routine! Be sure to make time for yourself and prioritize the activities that will support your emotional, mental, and physical well-being.
Life Skills Organization Packet
We all have different abilities and can use support to keep our life more organized. Life skills develop over time and can be reinforced with regular practice of habits. See what’s included in our packet!
Caregiver Information Worksheet
In our article, Autism Awareness — Caregiver Support, we talk about the numerous ways that caregiving is often a lifelong commitment to another, which comes with difficulties, stress, and adjustments along the way. For caregivers of all kinds, it can be one less item on the list to have a tool to keep track of things! Use our information worksheet to log the health and well-being of your loved one.
Therapy Tune-Up: Build a Milk Carton Birdhouse
This craft uses fine motor skills to cut, trace and paint if you choose. Work on visual motor skills with tracing and cutting with accuracy, along with hand strength and dexterity to cut and assemble the house. We use our executive functions when following steps of sequencing correctly as well.