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Mailbox Project: First Notes

September 1, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Mailbox Project: First Notes

So last week I wrote about my mailbox project with four classes at the schools I work in — 4th grade, 3rd grade, 3rd grade, and 1st grade (or approximately age 9-10, 8-9, and 6-7). […]

Activities

Make Your Own Potions

July 19, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Make Your Own Potions

The single play invitation that I was most excited for in all of Camp Creativity* was set for Thursday: the “make your own potion” station. This could totally have been anywhere from really simple to […]

Activities

Camp Creativity – From Vision to Invitation

July 18, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Camp Creativity – From Vision to Invitation

The space that I had available for camp was the open outdoor area between the building I work in and the next building over. It has parking lots on either side, so I knew we […]

Activities

Camp Creativity Introduction & Photo Teaser

July 18, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Camp Creativity Introduction & Photo Teaser

I am SOOOOO excited to tell you guys all about “Camp Creativity”, the sensory-rich, arts-and-crafts, child-led play day camp for 30 kids and their parents that I have been planning for a couple of months […]

Activities

Drawing Music

June 22, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Drawing Music

Throwback to one of the activities I did in the past… I brought this giant keyboard mat, set it on different instrumental settings and we drew all over it with dry erase markers while it […]

Elementary

Teaching Kids to Write who “Hate Writing”

June 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Teaching Kids to Write who “Hate Writing”

I originally recorded this lecture for a group who work tutoring children with dyslexia and other learning difficulties. It’s based on a lot of experiences I’ve had with children getting referred to me in my […]

Activities

BIG Word Search

April 18, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on BIG Word Search

With the big kids in my action room who still have handwriting or letter formation goals, one of the activities I set out is a big huge grid on the floor drawn on butcher paper, […]

Activities

Simple Mazes

March 27, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Simple Mazes

I offer a fine motor area as one of the stations in my therapy gym, in the form of a whiteboard with something casually drawn on it that the kids can interact with or not. […]

At School

Process and Occupation

March 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Process and Occupation

Process art, as opposed to product art, usually doesn’t produce an end result — a “product” — that looks pretty or neat or send-home-able. It might be messier, more about exploring texture or materials than […]

At School

Occupationally Meaningful

January 29, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Occupationally Meaningful

When I get a kid on my caseload who has been forced, from too early, to trace and write — for whom it is HARD to trace and write, who quickly learns to HATE tracing […]

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