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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
Safe Home, Safe Family
June is National Safety Month. During this month, we aim to provide additional info for parents or families who want to learn more about how to impact their lives with the best safety measures in mind. This year, many of us have found ourselves “at home” more than ever before.
Family Health & Fitness
Family Health & Fitness Day is June 13th this year. Are you ready to get fit and have a ton of fun with your family? Then you are in the right place!
Summer Activity List
Every child needs to stay active and experience new things to learn and enjoy during the summer. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with new ideas when you are in the moment. Make it easy with our summer activity list!
Therapeutic Kids Coloring Pages
Looking for a great summer indoor activity to aid in your child’s development?
Therapeutic Kids Coloring Pages are a creative activity that combines the fun of coloring with some of the principles of occupational therapy.
Animal Movement Dice Game
Play this activity to combine gross motor skills, coordination, balance, and other physical therapy concepts in a fun and interactive game.
Pipe Cleaner Sculptures
This simple activity emphasizes fine motor and concentration skills, while also promoting creativity. With no mess and just a few low-cost supplies you may already have around your home, the sky is the limit for kids to create!
Best Dad Award Craft
Looking for a simple and fun Father's Day craft? Create your own "Best Dad Award" using a paper plate and a few other easily accessed supplies.
School's Out. Now What?
During the past few years, everyone has endured heightened stress levels and changes to their normal routine. For families with children, the disruption to routine likely caused children to stay home from school, parents to work from home, or countless other possible situations that changed the normal routine at home.
Water Safety Color Wheel
Did you know that certain colors have better visibility in water? During National Safety Month, we are featuring a fun way to learn about what colors create a safer situation for little swimmers!
W-Sitting Activities & Correction
By strengthening the core musculature, children are less likely to revert to W sitting as a natural compensatory strategy. They will have the core strength, trunk stability, and proximal control to assist their body in maintaining position while they play, write, eat, color, read, and much more!
Summertime Water Balloon Fun
Practice your eye-hand coordination with throwing at targets or trying to catch like a “hot potato”, visual-motor integration and fine motor control to fill the balloons, and sensory integration of textures and temperatures!
W-Sitting & Learning to Correct
A common issue for children as they are developing important muscle structures is their core strength in their trunk. While it is very typical to see a little one “W-sitting” - that is, sitting with your ankles on the outside of your bent knees - it is an important position to correct if you notice that a child in your life often position themselves this way.
Father’s Day Toolbox Craft
Make Dad feel appreciated this Father’s Day with this fun toolbox craft! It’s easy to make with our printable pieces. Just cut out the toolbox and tools, then add your own messages to personalize the box for Dad.
Giant Paper Plate Memory Game
This activity focuses on fine and visual motor skills to color or trace shapes or letters. Children practice accuracy and identification of colors, letters, shapes, words, as well as working memory.
Dad You Rock - Father's Day Card
This activity focuses on fine motor skills to cut, write, draw, and fold the paper to make a card. Children engage visual motor skills and sensory input with different textures of the rocks and touch of the glue.
Pool Noodle Races
This activity focuses on problem solving, visual perceptual skills, and sensory motor skills such as using different weights or textures.
Sensory-Friendly Home Modifications
Individuals of all ages may struggle with sensory processing issues. Those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in particular may experience sensory overload in certain situations. Sensory integration is the process in which your brain understands and manages the varying sensory input it receives.
Aphasia Awareness
Developing language skills is critical for children to adequately communicate in our world. When a child (or person of any age) has trouble forming and understanding words, it is typically referred to as aphasia. June is aphasia awareness month and approximately two million people in the United States have aphasia.
Father's Day Crafts
Father's Day is June 19 — Here are some fun and inexpensive ideas to gift that special dad, grandpa, uncle, brother, etc. Make an adorable card as a stand-alone gift or to go with your gift; use a footprint for the body and a handprint for the cape!