Therapy Homework Doesn’t Have To Be Another Task On Your Long To-Do List
Sometimes, it can be overwhelming to fit everything into your day when there is just so much to do! That feeling has often led me to wish that there were at least 28 hours to each day so that it could all be accomplished! Instead of feeling like your child’s occupational therapy homework is another thing to cross off your list, there are ways you can incorporate it into your usual daily routine. Below are some ideas to incorporate this homework into your routine to make it easy to get it done.
Ways To Incorporate Occupational Therapy Homework Into Your Daily Routine
1. Have your child transition from activity to activity as he gets ready to leave the house for the day by doing heavy work.
- For example, he can wake up and do 10 jumping jacks before going to the bathroom to brush teeth, crab walk to the kitchen for breakfast, bear crawl to the bedroom to get dressed, and then frog jump from the front door to the car to leave for the day.
2.Have your child help you with household chores. For example they can:
- push a laundry basket
- help vacuum
- wipe the table off after dinner
- push in chairs
- shovel snow
- rake leaves
- changing sheets on the bed
- take out the garbage
- help carry groceries from the car to the house and help put them away
3. Have your child use tweezers or clothespins to help make pizza for dinner (or another meal). Have him pick up pieces of cheese or pepperoni with the tweezers and put it on the pizza dough.
Please leave a comment if you have any additional tricks to fit your child’s therapy homework into your daily schedule!