

Visual Timer
Sometimes the best way to countdown an activity is by not using words at all. Many children are visual learners and have difficulty understanding and responding to verbal directions. An adult’s verbal directions may be misunderstood or easily glossed over by a child who is very focused on an activity. Using a visual timer to set limits on activities, either fun ones or no so fun ones, gives a clear expectation that can set a child up for a smooth transition to the next t


OT Hack: Reviving Play Doh
Super easy hack to recondition your dried out play doh. Massage a helping of hand cream into your dried doh – and voila! Squishy, mushy, crumble-free doh!


Pinball Wizards
Today I was lucky enough to visit Modern Pinball NYC, an awesome pinball arcade. I can't remember the last time I played pinball, but I had a blast exploring all the machines at Modern Pinball. Pinball is an awesome visual-perceptual and visual-motor activities. There's something sweet the rhythmicity of it and it can also be unpredictable, which is exciting. My favorite pinball machine was Gold strike circa 1975, but there were so many different machines with different de