Author: Amy

UPDATED Candy Land Spinner!

Who doesn’t love a spinner?! It reminds me of the episode of “The Office” where Pam makes a spinner for the office chores, then has to make a whole game out of it (but sneaks a tiny chore spinner into the game). Best of all: it’s disinfect-able (which is important to me when I have …

Food-Themed Virtual Treatment Room

Here’s November’s food-themed virtual treatment room! Visit it to see the webcams, apps, videos, and websites I’m using this month. Here’s a link to my folder of themed virtual treatment rooms (so you can download and edit a room to make it your own if you want to). You can find my other themed virtual treatment rooms here.

October’s Theme: Magic!

October is my favorite month so as I’ve been developing monthly themes that I can reuse each year, I was most excited for this one! I started with “spooky” as the theme, but the more I thought about it “MAGIC” is better because it includes all the spookiness while still including topics for kids who …

Practice Halloween

Every October I practice trick-or-treating with my patients. For the week before Halloween, we end our regular appointment early and I have the kids go out into the hall, knock on my door, then say, “Trick or treat!” and I give them a piece of parent-approved candy (I get a pack of Yum Earth’s Halloween …

Magic Sensory Bin

For my magic-themed sensory bin I bought an off-brand kinetic sand (which I don’t recommend because the glitter came out – I recommend the official Kinetic Sand brand glitter sand, instead) and added these plastic gems and these fairy minis. I then added the magic minis I already had, including Llama Hatchimals, unicorns, and dragons. …

Magic Virtual Treatment Room

I was so excited to make a reusable virtual therapy room for October! Click here to visit my magic-AKA-spooky-themed virtual treatment room and see the webcams, apps, videos, and websites I’m using this month. Here’s a link to my folder of themed virtual treatment rooms (so you can download and edit a room to make it …

September’s Theme: Wildlife

I’m still developing my monthly themes that I’ll be able to reuse each year to save myself time and energy. You can find the rest of my monthly themes here. I’ve made my theme for September “Wildlife.” Here are the ways I’ve incorporated “wildlife” into my practice this month… You can find my other themed virtual …

Wildlife Prizes

I had a hard time finding wildlife prizes that would appeal to a variety of ages (since I see kids as young as 2 and as old as 18), but I settled on these wind-up sloths and these finger-sized skateboards. You can find more themed prizes here.