This beautiful activity incorporates tactile, visual, and motor coordination in a wonderful way. SUPPLIES: Colored paper, pipe cleaner, and glue. (you can also add glitter) This springtime favorite teaches strategies for uniformity with writing and can support drawing tasks by using a circle. We have included the...
Sometimes we forget to use scissors on food items so that we can combine that skill with added olfactory and gustatory sensory input. Cutting celery can also be an easier and safer way for elderly clients to chop celery as compared with a knife. OPTIONS: Other...
Cutting and stamping vegetables and fruits can be very therapeutic and turning it into art is even better. This is wonderful for clients of all ages. Recommended foods to cut and stamp with are; potatoes, celery, apples, pears, melons, and broccoli....
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...
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...
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...
This handout should give you many ideas as to what you can use to provide useful matching challenges. Tip: With car emblems, just grab pictures from the internet and then match them to pictures of cars or descriptions of them. I used the car emblems with...
Here are 7 different activities that you can do that can help build the cognitive skills of your clients. These are often overlooked and critical for IADL success. Sometimes you can give them to a caretaker to do as therapy homework and then have them...