Touch: Calming Activities
Seeing: Calming Activities
Smell: Calming Activities
Touch: Alerting Activities
Deep Pressure: Calming Activities
Movement: Alerting Activities
Hearing: Calming Activities
Taste: Calming Activities
Hearing: Alerting Activities
Smell: Calming Activities
Seeing: Alerting Activities
Movement: Calming Activities
Taste: Alerting Activities
Deep Pressure: Alerting Activities
- Work in bright lights - Use a flashlight to point or highlight important information -Use brightly colored paper - Use a highlighter to underline important text - Use colored chalk - Use a slant board to place materials at an angle - Use bright lights or colors
- Jump on trampoline or do jumping jacks - Swing on the playground equipment - Rock in a rocking chair - Roll back and forth in a barrel - Take a break to do an errand - Swing in a hammock
- Listen to quiet music with slow, even beat - Listen to soft singing or humming - Cover ears when loud or unexpected noise happens - Use headphones to shield from noise - Work in a quiet environment
- Listen to music with varied pitch, sound loudness or uneven/fast boat - Speak with animated high and low voice - Enjoy frequent opportunities to examine novel sound- producing toys - Use sound producing materials to complete classroom projects - Prepare in advance for loud/strange noises
- Hold something cold - Gently and quickly rub the skin - Take a cool shower, or wash face with cool washcloth - Receive a light back scratch - Pet a cat or dog - Handle fidget items
- Push heavy furniture - Push a heavy cart - Carry boxes, laundry basket or help unload groceries - Vacuum the floor - Do "Wheelbarrow walks" - Carry a weighted blanket - Jump into a squishy pile of pillows
- Eat crunchy foods, such as pretzels, ice, carrots, celery and apples - Eat chewy food such as licorice, taffy, gum, and beef jerky - Blow whistles, bubbles, feathers, balloons, cotton balls, etc. - Eat ice and popsicles - Keep a cold water bottle on desk - Eat crunchy, chewy, salty, or cold foods - Engage in eating/chewing, sucking and blowing activities
- Chew or suck on a mild flavor such as a sucker, hard candy, or chew toys - suck thick liquids through a straw - Drink form a sports water bottle - Chew/suck on a keychain or necklace - Chew/suck on a pen top - Drink warm liquids, such as hot chocolate - Play a musical instrument - Blow whistles, bubbles, feathers, balloons, cotton balls, etc. - Engage in blowing activities paired with eye-tracking exercises (such as blow ping-pong ball with a straw)
- Use scented lotion or sap between activities - Spray a citrus room deodorizer before academic activities - Use scented materials in projects - Receive scratch n sniff stickers as a reward
- Jump on trampoline or do jumping jacks, - Hand upside down on a jungle gym - Ride a scooter - Sit andn bounce on therapy ball - Bend over and place bead between legs - Stand and twirl in a circle - Do somersaults and cartwheels
- Help pass out papers, erase the board, or delivering a message - Exercise, dance, wiggle
- Weighted Blanket - Snuggle under blankets - Playing with putty
- Work in a dim light or with lights turned off - Block distractions by using a screen, room divide or study carrel - Wear sunglasses - Provide visual materials such as a glitter wand, oiled and water toys - Work at distraction free desk/ work space - Work in a natural rather than artificial light
- Burn a candle (vanilla, or lavender or other scent that calms the individual) - Spray pillow with calming pillow spray - smell potpourri - Incorporate preferred scents within academic task (writing with a scented pen) - Use scented crayons or markers