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.

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.

It is so important to exercise parts of the brain that can grow weaker with age, particularly our memory. One fun way to strengthen your memory is to play this game!

Scavenger hunts are a great way to have some fun while being active at the same time. You can even do a scavenger hunt at home, and the whole family, young and old can join in on the fun.

Do you have a bullet journal? Many people use them to track different habits in their life while keeping themselves on track with their goals. There are so many different ways to use a habit tracker, including tracking self-care tasks, mental health activities, and workouts.

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.

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.

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.

To learn some interesting quick facts about OT, check out the following highlights at-a-glance:

During the month of June, we aim to promote Alzheimer’s and Brain awareness. June 20th is the longest day of the year, when we have the most light. Alzheimer’s Association uses the summer solstice as the day to promote awareness throughout the world.

“The day with the most light is the day we fight®!”

-alz.org

During the month of June, advocates around the US highlight information and promote education related to scoliosis. Like so many other disorders, early detection is key in administering the most effective treatment plan.

As aging continues, we all experience changes in our bodies which affect our abilities. Many people become caretakers for their parents as they age and lose the capability to conduct their lives as independently as they once did. One major concern for most elderly individuals is the potential for an accidental fall and resulting injury.

A result of neurological and immune dysfunction, myasthenia gravis affects voluntary muscles throughout the body. The communication between from the brain to the muscles is interrupted and therefore unable to send normal transmissions to make muscles move. Over time, muscles do not get as much activity and begin to fatigue rapidly.

During National Safety Month, we always aim to focus on the ways families and individuals can stay safe - particularly in their home environment. Home is a place where you should be able to relax, spend quality time with your family, and a place where everyone in your household feels safe, secure, and comfortable.