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...
Using dots can be cost effective, fun and functional. Give some of these activities a try. PT: Dots can encourage energy and make a dull therapy room more motivating for young and old clients. Check out the basketball bounce with squares picture to motivate you. Try...
Oh what JOY they bring. Kids and adults love looking at them. Hope the pictures can inspire you to get yourself some. Walmart and other craft stores carry them and they are cheap! Idea: They are fun for finger tip prehension: Place one in each section...
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...
Sometimes unexpected tools are best to build skills with. Kids usually find umbrellas fun and adding the therapy activities with it will bring lots of interest. Another Umbrella idea: Hang an opened umbrella upside down and have kids toss pennies or sock snowballs up into it....
We have included a blank template so that you can make your own patterns with the shapes and glue them in the top row of boxes and let the clients duplicate it in the boxes below. If you do not have a colored printer, just...
With directed drawing, there is a picture or someone breaking down the picture that the client will draw into small increments. With this activity, you may start with drawing the bottom 4 horizontal lines, then keep adding on until the picture is complete. This picture...