Use the pictures and Task Box Idea List to help you create fun and effective task boxes. These work real well in the home setting and parents will easily get on board once you give them a box or two to get started. Elderly populations enjoy...
This is a wonderful guide to place near the bathroom sink. It can also be used as a guide for an activity that involves hand washing. We want to keep germs down especially in clinics, schools, and camp settings so this can help encourage thorough...
Check out our "Popscicles and other sucky foods" entry for more ideas. Keep food tasting fun and relaxed. If you have therapy tools you have created and want to share them or sell them, let us know so we can help, because Brilliant Therapy is better therapy! Download...
There are many ways to present foods. If your client is struggling with anything oral, try playing games that involve a story- jelly beans and granola can be placed like a trail on the table and retrieved with ones mouth. You can ask kids to...
Here is a list to get you started. Don't forget the obvious, wheelchair races! Many clients like a bit of light-hearted competition. We are only as creative as our members. Share your creative tools with the BrilliantTherapy team! Download the PDF for Wheelchair Level Activities...
Many of our elderly clients find this handout useful because of limited energy and ideas to make themselves food. These are easy to prepare and delicious. Keep things easier on the hands by purchasing already shredded cheese or chopped olives in the can. Share your own delicious...
We often forget to add smells into the sensory planned activity. If a kid eats a tiny bit, no worries. This can be fun to make or use for fine motor and strengthening for young and old clients. Download the PDF for Cranberry Dough...
Believe it or not, this is another favorite! Kids love this and it builds so many skills, such as reflex integration, crossing midline, UE strengthening, visual tracking (need to use water for this one-dry mop will not do), and sensory modulation. We used this poster...
Running low on treatment ideas? Get recharged by checking these out. Share your ideas with the team on the Brilliant Therapy facebook page. Together we are better! Actually Brilliant! Download the PDF for Stroke: 6 Treatment Options...
These numbers may be good for beginning writing skills, but they are a super neat tool to have for an obstacle course too! We included a decorative and printer friendly version. OT: You may also have kids write the numbers around the number form. Yes these are...