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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Weekly Workout Planner
This Weekly Workout Worksheet can help adults keep track of their exercise routine for each day. The worksheet provides a space to get organized and also take notes for a 5-day workout week.
Health Centers Awareness
National Health Centers Week was created to call attention to the important work that Health Centers do all around the country. They provide services for people at all hours of the day and care for over 30 million patients at 11,000 sites nationwide. Health centers reduce costs by 24 billion dollars annually through specialty care costs.
Mindful Mandala Tracing
Our Mindful Mandala Tracing is a therapeutic activity is designed for adults to enhance focus, promote relaxation, and improve fine motor skills. By creating intricate mandala designs, anyone can practice mindfulness, reduce stress, and express their creativity.
Immunization Awareness
National Immunization Awareness Month takes place this August to bring awareness to the importance of vaccinations for people of all ages. By continuing to learn accurate and up-to-date information, you give yourself the knowledge to make the best decisions about how to get vaccines for yourself and your families.
Therapy Tune-Up: Paint Pouring
Paint pouring can be a fun and simple way of getting into a new practice of creating art. Painting utilizes fine motor skills, visual motor skills, cognitive skills, boosts creativity, and can even help reduce stress.
Therapy Tune-Up: Make Something New in the Kitchen
Making a new dish offers so many options. Whether you follow a new recipe, bake a treat, or experiment with a new snack idea, making something new in the kitchen works on fine motor skills, visual motor skills, and language skills.
Summer Sensory Snapshots
Take a stroll down memory lane with Summer Sensory Snapshots, a card-based storytelling activity for adults that’s as heartwarming as a July sunset. Draw from whimsical, vintage-style cards that spark sensory memories, objects from summers past, and prompts that nudge creativity into full bloom. Perfect for individual reflection, group storytelling, or light movement-based scavenger hunts, this activity supports expressive language, cognitive recall, and social connection—all wrapped in the cozy glow of summer nostalgia — because every memory starts with a little spark.
Sarcoma Awareness
July is Sarcoma Awareness Month, and the Sarcoma Foundation of America takes action on July 21st for Virtual Advocacy Day. This organization aims to advocate for individuals who have sarcoma and encourage more scientific research into patient care and treatment development.
Heat Stroke
Many individuals, particularly those living in Southern Nevada or the southwest US, experience extreme heat each summer. Regions of the US who are not as accustomed to high heat have also experienced extreme temperatures this year.
Daily Routine Tracker
Our latest tracker worksheet, Daily Routine Tracker, is a structured activity designed to help adults improve their organizational skills, time management, and self-care habits. Using this worksheet helps encourage participants to plan and reflect on their daily routines, set goals, and track their progress.
Art Therapy Meditation
Meditation comes in many forms, including drawing, coloring, and painting. It can be very calming for the mind to engage in the simple act of coloring. Use this activity to incorporate a simple meditation concerning your well-being.
Self-Care Cards
If you find yourself unable to set time aside for self-care, it is time for a change! Self-care is important to help our brains find a place of calm and reduce stress in our bodies.
National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month
July is National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month. During this time, we aim to raise awareness and help more people understand these conditions.
World Hepatitis Day
World Hepatitis Day falls on July 28, and the campaign’s focus is focusing on “finding the missing millions” of people who are living with hepatitis and unaware they are. There are 290 million people estimated worldwide who have been undiagnosed and therefore not receiving care who could lose their lives to this disease.
Healthy Vision Month
Eye health is sometimes an afterthought until something goes wrong. It can be difficult to know how healthy your eyes are without a comprehensive eye exam. While your eyes may feel perfectly healthy, problems could be occurring with no indication.
Therapeutic Activities
Therapeutic recreation has a long-standing history, starting in the 1850s as a profession years after Florence Nightingale had been actively using and suggesting more people try recreational therapy in their own practices. During World War II the Red Cross hired recreational therapists to care for wounded and traumatized soldiers.
A-Z Gratitude Journal
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!
Therapy Tune-Up: Stress Management Coloring Pages
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 Page Prompts
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.
Therapy Tune-Up: Clothespin Patriotic Wreath
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.