This is a fun way to get writing, bilateral integration, and thinking skills worked on together. SUPPLIES: White paper for a base, colored paper squares, glue stick, and a pencil. DIRECTIONS: Have clients take colored squares of paper and cut them into smaller squares by folding them...
Bowling outdoors or indoors can be fun for clients of all ages. A wonderful way to increase stamina, improve mood, positive energy, social skills, visual-motor and balance skills. You can try carrying a weighted ball and run weaving between the bowling pins. OPTIONS: You can tape lines...
The clients who love Monster's Inc., will enjoy this game. Speech therapists enjoy using it in classrooms and kids enjoy using the game at home while improving skills. Can you guess who might be behind the door? Mastermind (adult favorite) and Clue (pre-teen favorite) are two other...
All you need is painter's tape and you can put down your Agility Ladder. This is a must with sports training or can be adapted between parallel bars. Paper and tape is all you need to create an obstacle course area in your gym. Here are...
This works surprisingly well in the clinic or at home. All you need is painters tape and 10 sheets of paper. Share your creative ideas with your Brilliant Therapy Team and get credit! Together we are helping to make therapy better!...
We got the worms from the Dollar Store and placed them inside a empty water bottle. The worms move in and out of the water bottle with just the right amount of tugging. This is a clinic favorite! You can time a client or have...
This is a wonderful visual-motor activity. SUPPLIES: Fruit container (Costco has them), Acrylic paint or permanent markers to make the trail that you want the fuzz ball to travel on, and a fuzz ball. We just poured the paint trail on to the container, let it dry,...
This is an easy painting task to keep messes at bay. Two or three drops of paint is all you need to make a flower. This activity also helps with visual spacial planning and a better understanding of the shape of a circle. SUPPLIES: Fork, acrylic/craft...
Being resourceful is an important form on intelligence. Understanding how different colors can be put together to form a picture is scary at first, but then clients start talking more and become absorbed in the task. Before you know it, everyone has something that they...
This is another fine tool for hand strengthening, communication, vision(better than a Brock string for those little guys), eye-hand coordination and cognition skills. If you are working on energy conservation have client punch holes and cut plate earlier, then thread and string beads later so...