Physical Therapy: Week of June 7-12

Try Out These Garden Yoga Positions!  Have a great summer!

Physical Therapy: Week of May 31 - June 6

Try Out This Dice Exercise Activity!

Roll the dice to see what exercise you get to do!  Kids love the concept of chance and not knowing which exercise will come up next!  Can you roll all 6 exercises?

Physical Therapy: Week of May 24th - 30th

Get Moving With This Idea Involving Your Name with Actions!

Physical Therapy: Week of May 17-23

Plank

Core Muscle Exercises!

Here are some exercises that you can do to strengthen your core... which is your building block and foundation for all other movements in your body!

Try to hold each one for as long as you can!  Repeat through these a second time for added benefits!

Bridge

Superman

Popcorn or Egg 

Reverse Table

Physical Therapy: Week of May 11th-16th

Balloon Activities!

(Keeping in mind latex free for any latex allergies or sensitivities.)

Balloon Tennis:

Use paper plates for the racquets, attaching a ruler or painter's stick to the back.  How many times can you hit it back and forth?

Other ideas with balloons:

• How many times can you hit it in the air with your hands before it touches the floor?
• Kick it back and forth with a partner or to a wall as in soccer.
• See if you can catch it with a funnel, or a wide mouth plastic cup.
• Attach it to the ceiling with a string and see if you can hit it with a cardboard tube.  

Have Fun!

Physical Therapy: Week of May 3. - May 9

Tightrope Balance Activity:
This can be done inside or outside.  Use a long piece of string/thin rope (sidewalk chalk outside) and make a pattern to walk across, trying to stay on the rope.  You can walk in different ways: forwards, touching heel/toe, backwards, sideways each direction.  You can make the rope in different shapes: straight, zig zag, curly cues.  You can make crossing the line more purposeful by having your child carry objects across one by one, such as puzzle pieces, blocks, etc.  Have fun!

Physical Therapy: Week of April 26-May 2

Toss It Tic-Tac-Toe!
Supplies: 10 Bean Bags or Rolled up Socks, Painters tape or Clothesline Rope
1) Make an indoor Tic Tac Toe board (or outdoor with sidewalk chalk and nice weather!)
2) Separate your bean bags or rolled up socks into two piles for the two people playing.  If using socks, you can go with light and dark colors.
3) Toss them from an agreed upon spot to try and beat your opponent with 3 in a row!

Physical Therapy: Week of April 12-18

Deck of Cards - Movement Exercises
The surprise factor of not knowing what you will pick makes it more fun!

Pick a card and do that exercise!

For example:

7 of Hearts could mean...

Touch Toes and Reach up 7x!

Jacks, Queens and Kings are worth 10 reps each.  Aces are 1x.

Some ideas of what to assign to your different suits:

Run in place
Wall sit
Touch toes and reach up
Arm Circles
Jumping jacks
Cross Crawls

Change it up and have fun!

Physical Therapy: Week of April 5th - April 11th

This week's focus is HOPSCOTCH!

You can do this indoors or outdoors, depending on the weather!

You can make your own hopscotch on your driveway with sidewalk chalk!










Or you can set up a hopscotch game in your house, in a hallway or some open space.  This could also serve as a reminder for a movement break, when you walk down the hallway, maybe you could add a hop-jump-hop!

I hope you are doing well and finding ways to add some exercise into your days!

Physical Therapy - Week of March 29th - April 4th

Each week, there will be a new exercise to focus on.  The idea is that this can be the "go to" exercise to be used as a motor break, or generally throughout the day.

This week's exercise is: WINDMILLS

Cross over and touch your opposite foot with your hand.
Reach up in the middle of the motion with arms overhead.
Then touch your other foot with your opposite hand.

Can you do 7 on each side?  Make sure to fully reach up tall in between each toe touch, as the tendency is to stay low and move from toe to toe.