Purposeful Activities
This activity involves getting your hands sticky. Benefits include socializing with others, exploration of sensations, permission to play, challenging age normative perceptions, experiencing choice, and being present.
What is Slime?
Also known as Aurora Borealis.
What are the northern lights?
This actor played Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Doolittle.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.
This therapeutic practice connects clients with plants and nature—through activities like gardening, nature walks, weaving with plant materials, or even writing haiku—to promote health and well-being.
What is horticultural therapy?
This activity incorporates structure alongside little guidance. Clients have 10 minutes to draw anything before passing along their creation to someone else who adds whatever they want to that original piece. The group alternates 4 times by the end of which they receive back their original piece with the added details others have contributed. Called alternating drawing, there are many benefits to this activity (name at least 2).
1. Social
2. Creative
3. Opportunity to lose control
4. Choice
Dish from Spain traditionally includes saffron rice, seafood, chicken, chorizo and peas.
What is Paella?
Born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, this Canadian singer made headlines a few years ago when he performed the Super Bowl Halftime Show in a hall of mirrors.
Who is The Weeknd?
Focuses on people’s interests and strengths and are dedicated to working collaboratively with individuals to help them reach their goals, increase their wellness, independence, level of social connection and involvement in community.
What is recreation therapy?
This activity requires fine-motor skills clients to follow step-by-step instructions. There are opportunities for independent or group participation. You might observe a client helping another figure out instructions or clients trying to modify their creations. Benefits include problem-solving, focus, patience, stress relief, sense of accomplishment, and opportunities to connect.
What is paper airplane making?
1 spelling is correct.
A.) Delinquent
B.) Dellinquint
C.) Delinquint
D.) Delinquinte
What is A.) Delinquent?
He has won 6 NBA titles.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This activity is all about team work and competition. Benefits include collaboration through use of different strengths (fine motor, gross motor, & problem solving), comradery, and opportunities to manage frustration.
What is Skills Challenge?
Any 4 of the 7 dwarves in Snow White.
Who are Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc and Bashful?
This woman from Ohio is the most decorated United States gymnast of all time.
Who is Simone Biles?
This activity gets clients outside, to work together, and move around. Although full of competitive energy and set against a time limit, you often hear and see supportive team mates. Moving through 4 levels, clients must speak without words.
What is active Pictionary?
Name of the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile river?
"C'mon Mr. White", this actor has become famous for tagging along side a chemistry teacher.
Who is Aaron Paul?