by hellokaren | May 10, 2019 | Activities, Clients/Consumers, Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
Pediatric OTs or parents: If you’re working with a child who is highly intelligent but has poor handwriting and one of the reasons is that they are bored/don’t care about sizing rules….this “lava paper” (game paper) is for you. Lava.paper...
by hellokaren | Aug 10, 2016 | Activities, Clients/Consumers, Current OT Students, Educators, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
Does your child get upset easily over small and easily fixable things, like a ball rolling under a table? It may be because he doesn’t realize he has any power to fix the problem. Luckily, you can teach him to feel more empowered. I introduce to you...
by hellokaren | Apr 21, 2016 | Activities, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
In my (former) work as a school-based occupational therapist, I was saddened daily at the lack of self-advocacy in the majority of the children I was treating. I provide the following as a (fictionalized but typical) scenario where I help teach self-advocacy. The...
by hellokaren | Jan 17, 2015 | Activities, Occupational Therapy
This weighted hedgehog is so simple to make. A sensory tool you can make extremely quickly and for less than $10. Materials: 1. Car-wash-mitten (often found in CVS $1-4 section or dollar store). 2. Eyeballs (If the sleeve isn’t black, you can Sharpie them). 3....
by hellokaren | Jan 7, 2015 | Activities, Current OT Students, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
Found this silly picture with the dad wearing a road t-shirt and getting a “car massage” by his children. If you made a child some road pajamas (long-sleeved white shirt and pants and then drawn on with fabric Sharpies or the equivalent), you could do some...
by hellokaren | Nov 21, 2014 | Activities, Clients/Consumers, Current OT Students, Occupational Therapy, Parents, Therapists
To make a creative pencil grip, take the ink part out of a pen, roll it into a polymer oven-bake clay and bake it, following directions you can find online for safety [using appropriate clay, not burning your house down or experiencing toxic fumes by baking it too...
