A simple gratitude practice can help shift your mind from focusing on the negative to focusing on the things you can be grateful for in life. This mindful practice is easy to do every day!

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

Journaling is a simple yet effective tool for personal development and stress relief. The practice involves writing entries about personal experiences, thoughts, feelings, or ideas.

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 Desert Dayboard is a fun and practical summer activity designed to help you plan your day with wellness and safety in mind—especially in hot, dry climates like Nevada. This one-page planner encourages users to check the weather, organize their daily tasks, and prioritize essential self-care like hydration, rest, and sun protection.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.