I hope you are hanging in there. There are some really wonderful light moments and some very dense hard ones, huh? My heart sank a little as my daughter asked, “will I get to go back to first grade to see my friends?” While we all have different hard questions to answer, we all have this paradox of hard moments co-existing with wonderful delights. I love not rushing off to the next event, everyone is home for dinner, and I can savor the moment with more presence. But some days are filled with such big emotions from all of us, knowing that we need to strategize for the next grocery store run, and the social isolation can feel dense. In these paradoxical moments, I find comfort in knowing that the whole world shares this common experience. Sitting with that fact sort of blows my mind. At the end of the day we all share this common bond despite shelter-in-place looking so different for each of us. We all have long exhausting days filled with uncertainty and hard questions to answer but the same sun rises and sets over each of us as we all put one foot in front of the other to get to the other side.

I love this idea for Earth Day on Wednesday! I’d love to write words on one side that promote healing for the Earth.

I’m loving these to promote the appropriate grasp for little toddlers!

We will definitely be doing this in my telehealth OT sessions this week! But we will add a twist and walk the ball up the wall with our feet! Great for kiddos and parents!

Try building a tower with pieces of cardboard! Cut slits to fit the pieces together - it is a great way to build bilateral coordination skills, problem solving, and finger strength!

My friend over at Children’s Lit Love recommends fabulous books and shared a fun activity that worked on building hand strength while making pancakes! After reading Pancakes for Breakfast they got busy maing pancakes! What a fun activity for pandemic life!

Have a great week! Tag me if you try any of these activities!

Stocking Stuffers with an OT Twist

Sunday Snippets