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...
If you like this you may like the Bubble Wrap Painting: Fish activity. We added a little angel fish for you to demonstrate with. OT & PT: You may have kids stand on balance beam with fish page taped to the wall and see if they can...
Change it up for the New Year by sharing goals via rolling a ball with the message on it. Our kids had a blast with it, and they demonstrated increased visual tracking as well as writing and communication skills. Printer friendly version included. DIRECTIONS: Cut out the...
If you want to make your cards fancy, just copy pictures like the talking boy and then cut them out and paste them on the blank side of the cards. Kids enjoy the mystery of cards and you can build communication skills at the same time. Share...
Balancing fun is what this is. Building body awareness and visual-motor skills and so much more. Speech Option: Place index cards on the beam and when the student walks on top of them, they will have to do a move, pose, read a word, that is...
Try introducing this like Follow The Leader. Kids love to imitate and learn to lead this way. Here are 21 ways to use a line for therapy. Brave summer camp OT: You can even trace your finger up the crease of a cactus. Go slowly. It is...
Parents can do so much more for their kids when they have a handout to refer to that provides guidance for skill growth. The lightbulb border helps to keep it from getting lost in the everyday paperwork. ALC teachers love handing this one out. An additional...
Some of the skills worked on include: thought organization, visual spacial, visual-motor, visual-perceptual, auditory and visual processing, impulse control, fine motor control, and balance/standing tolerance if done while in a standing position. Option = use markers instead of paint. This is one of the few painting activities...
The fine details on this coloring can encourage making dots and using gel pens. This is especially nice for calming the adult client and assessing what they can do. Encourage them to embellish the blank spaces to work on fluid intelligence. OT & PT: For balance training,...
ST & OT: A quick but challenging task, this can be used to call out a letter to complete or call off words that start with each letter in the word January. A tad of coloring can keep this fun and writing can also be worked...