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Creating “Calming Sensory Spaces” in the Classroom

March 27, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Creating “Calming Sensory Spaces” in the Classroom

  A recording of myself presenting on the topic, “Creating ‘Calming Sensory Spaces’ in the Classroom”. I presented this first to teachers at the school where I work, and then made minor adjustments and recorded […]

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Stars and Rainbows

March 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Stars and Rainbows

(From the archives of my own personal FB page, a story from when I was an early therapist. I would do some things differently now, but I still appreciated the story.) *** I have a […]

Activities

Painting With The Ballooniverse

February 9, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Painting With The Ballooniverse

I’m a part of a group devoted to process art ideas for classrooms, daycares, homes, etc, called Process Art by Maryann Kohl. In that group, I saw a fantastic idea of dipping balloons in paint […]

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An In-Tents Crawling Game

February 8, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on An In-Tents Crawling Game

I have this great set of tents connected by a crawl-through tunnel, and the children who come to my therapy gym already love crawling through it. To add a bit of a game element to […]

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Recycling Dried Markers

February 2, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Recycling Dried Markers

If you haven’t picked up on it by now, I really love it when activities can span across multiple weeks and have multiple steps and goals that shift and change each week. I feel like it […]

Activities

Glow Stick Party

February 2, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Glow Stick Party

In January, in my therapy gym, we decided to have a glow stick party. Technically there was no “reason” for this other than that it was fun and changed up the pace a little bit, […]

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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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