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Baking Soda + Vinegar = Empowerment

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Baking Soda + Vinegar = Empowerment

We have been using the park after school as a good strategy for getting/staying regulated. Just going and camping out with a meal for a few hours, til it’s close to bedtime. But on this […]

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Spray Destruction

April 3, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Spray Destruction

We sort of organically invented a game outside that I thought was pretty great for kids who are what’s sometimes called “destructive”, or who are wanting to take things apart, knock towers over, break things, […]

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What is Modeling?

February 5, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on What is Modeling?

Somebody asked me the other day if I’ve ever written a post defining what modeling is. I haven’t, but it’s a good idea since I suggest modeling things for children basically constantly. 🙂 I think […]

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Six Ways to Play with Vacuums

October 2, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Six Ways to Play with Vacuums

At my lecture last Friday, during the Q&A session, somebody asked me if I had any ideas for connecting meaningfully and playfully in therapy with a child whose special interest was vacuums, and who spent […]

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Monkey Bars

September 25, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Monkey Bars

We went to a new playground recently. Monkey bars are rarer here in the UK (at least in my rural area) than they were at playgrounds in the states. As far as I can tell, […]

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Violent Themes in Play

September 10, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Violent Themes in Play

Some adults get alarmed when they hear children using language that sounds “violent” or involves themes of morality, such as “good guys” and “bad guys”. They may want to explain to the child that morality […]

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Clipline Zipline

July 31, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Clipline Zipline

This particular camp* invitation was whole-cloth taken from Denita over at Listen to the Children. She’s been collecting clips, towel clips, and clothespins for a toy zipline for years and I only had about a […]

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Ice, Ice Baby

July 31, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Ice, Ice Baby

I hoped for a warm day to do an ice-themed camp invitation*, but in England all we had were moderate days and chilly days. The kids seemed completely unfazed by this fact and the ice […]

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Everything is Paintbrushes

July 27, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Everything is Paintbrushes

This camp invitation* was so simple and so engaging — all I did was collect a bunch of things that weren’t paintbrushes and set them out with a big piece of paper and some paint! […]

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Nature Soup

July 24, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Nature Soup

I set up an invitation at camp* to make “nature soup”. If we had had the access, I would’ve loved for the kids to be able to pick whatever flowers and leaves and weeds and […]

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