We are a team of professional Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Behavioural Practitioners, Counselors and Teachers who enjoy creating resources to support children and young people to build confidence, resilience and ensure optimal learning. We are motivated by passion to create educational and therapeutic resources which are evidence-based, creative, innovative and flexible.
We are a team of professional Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Behavioural Practitioners, Counselors and Teachers who enjoy creating resources to support children and young people to build confidence, resilience and ensure optimal learning. We are motivated by passion to create educational and therapeutic resources which are evidence-based, creative, innovative and flexible.
This creative activity encourages children to create their own “self-care” snowman.
You can make as many snowman as you want. Templates are included for different emotions to help students explore their self care when they feel a variety of feelings and reflecting on why they felt that way as well as what they needed to look after themselves and their emotions.
This creative activity includes:
Learning all about “self-care”
Instructions
Completed example
Blank templates (including individual templates with visual supports for emotions
Snowman templates (to cut and glue individual body parts)
Self-care ideas for brainstorming
What to do:
Cut out the various snowman parts (head, body, accessories etc.)
Glue snowman together.
Complete the three piece sentence sequence – “I feel” “Because” “I need”.
Don’t forget to give your snowman a name.
THIS MINI LESSON IS A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COUNSELLING OR SEL LESSONS! GREAT FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP WORK.
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This is a creative and engaging intervention based on Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TFCBT)_principles to support students to explore Personal Safety.
This mini-lesson explores the following key areas:
What is Personal Safety?
What are OK, NOT OKAY and CONFUSING touches?
Exploring types of touches – safe touch, confusing touch and private touch
Secrets
Reflective Questions (feelings, thoughts, what if and what would you do questions?
Practice calling for help (in an emergency)
NO – GO – TELL Concept
Exploring what you would do if you were not believed or listened too
You are the boss of your body
Your “Helping Hand” – exploring those who are in their support system
Summary points
NOTE - The purpose of this resource is to support children’s understanding of this topic to help them keep safe. Education helps to keep our children safe and work towards reducing violence and abuse in the community. At All Therapy resources we are devoted to increasing awareness of all aspects of children’s safety, particularly that of personal safety and protective behaviours within Family Violence Systems.
This resource is more question and reflective based as opposed to psych educative. This resource has been created with a trauma-informed framework in mind to ensure that regardless of the student audience the questions can be utilized as either a foundation on which to either ascertain current knowledge or to ascertain thoughts and feelings on the subject matter. From such foundation, these questions allow students to grown in their knowledge and insight on this topic.
NOTE: Therapists are encouraged to utilize their own therapeutic and clinical judgment and insight as to how to utilize this resource.
This creative and printable board game has been developed to provide a foundation which explores puberty, relationship, sexuality & protective behaviours.
“Next Steps” has been developed for an equal opportunity for role modelling, education and learning from other responses. This game supports self-expression, enhancement of self esteem and confidence and brainstorming alternative behavioural and interactional choices and actions. The questions provided encourage participants to reflect of their choices and actions around their behaviours and explore and process their feelings and emotions.
This game encourages reflection and psycho-education around
PUBERTY, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY AND PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOURS
There are over 115 reflective question cards with 23 cards in each of the five various color-coded areas. These include:
- “Next Steps” – explores the changing body through puberty and sexuality
- Friendships – reflecting on impulse control and its impact
- Better Choices – exploring behaviours and their consequences, emotional regulation, coping strategies and strategies
- Fill Your Cup – reflecting and exploring empowerment and self-care rituals and strategies
- Safety First – explores protective behaviours
This game is a perfect supplement for our set of 6 “Relationship & Sexuality” Lesson Plans. (These include: 1. Personal Body Safety 2. Puberty 3. Special Relationships and Dating 4. Sex & Consent 5. Safe Sex Practices and 6. Safety in the Community)
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The following mini-lesson and craft activity is great to help students express their self gratitude, appreciation and self-love! This activity is a creative and beautiful way to encourage a kindness and self-love mindset.
Students are encouraged to explore positive thoughts, inspiring affirmations, compliments and feelings about themselves and write these on the raindrop templates included. The students are guided through creating their own self-love shower and learning to be kind, patient, gentle and passionate with themselves.
This mini-lesson includes:
What is a self-love shower
What do you love about yourself?
What things are you good at?
Self-love questionnaire
The process – what to do
Give yourself some love
Examples
Self-love Shower Templates
Self-love ideas
Templates
Quote Poster
Create a positive mindset of kindness, empathy, gratitude and self-love!
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Speech Therapy Made Easy!
This set includes over 108 Articulation and Sight Word Cards to support language facilitation for food items.
Who would benefit from using these cards?
Children who have difficulty with speech and articulation would benefit from this set. These may include children with apraxia of speech, autism, Down Syndrome and severe phonological processes would benefit from these cards. These cards would even help in building up the students vocabulary.
There are two buckets included at the end of the set. The first bucket can include the articulation cards which have been able to be successfully completed and the second bucket is for the articulation cards that might need a little bit more practice. When the students see that eventually their ”successful” buckets get full, this will help build upon their sense of achievement.
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This resource is a great addition for exploring coping strategies, emotions and feelings with little learners in a fun, creative and engaging way. This craft activity encourages students to create and make their own coping strategies stick puppets. This resource includes 12 colour and 12 black and white puppet templates. There are two different versions included. One version includes the word label of each coping strategy together with the clip art image and the other version displays the clip art only. Included is a narrative so students can create their own puppet show.
THE COPING STRATEGIES
INCLUDED ARE:
Bouncing on a ball
Counting
Get a drink
Drawing
Play dough
Stress ball
Stretch
Reading
Think happy thoughts
Go for a walk
Music
Writing
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This is a fun, engaging, creative and non-threatening intervention which is great for students to explore self esteem strategies.
Sandwich ingredients represent the various strategies to support the student to use self esteem strategies. The following strategies are included: be authentic, eat healthy foods, exercise regularly, good sleep, positive affirmations, list your wins and accomplishments, pamper yourself, favourite music, create a memory box, clean environment, avoid triggers, deep breathing/meditation, set realistic goal and take action and surround yourself with positive people.
Laminate and use white board markers for students to write their own
Self Esteem strategies to create their own unique “Self Esteem” sandwich. This is great for a lunch time individual or group therapy intervention.
This is a fun, engaging, creative and non-threatening intervention which is great for students to explore calm down strategies.
Sandwich ingredients represent the various strategies to support the student to calm down. The following strategies are included: bounding on a ball, playing with play-doh, counting to 10, writing down thoughts, listening to music, stretching, quiet time, drawing, reading, going for a walk, meditation, hugging a favourite toy, having a drink and thinking happy thoughts. There are blank copies of the ingredients for students to write down some calming strategies that they like to use.
Laminate and use white board markers for students to write their own
calm-down strategies to create their own unique calm down sandwich. This is great for a lunch time individual or group therapy intervention.
SCISSOR AND TRACING TASK CARDS for early learners
There are a total of 52 scissor and tracing cards as well as 6 blank cards for student to create their own tracing and scissor lines should they wish.
There is a variety of foundational shapes and formations ranging from straight to curved lines and everything in between needed for your child or students to develop pre-writing and skills.
These are bright, colourful and engaging cards which are great for early learners to develop and strengthen their fine motor skills.
LAMINATE THESE TASK CARDS TO USE OVER AND OVER!
This Mini-Lesson utilizes a reflective framework to explore anger. Throughout this mini-lesson students will be requested to reflect on the following topics:
What is anger?
Difference between anger and aggression
Consequences of behaviour
Anger Awareness – Exploring Triggers
Presentation of Anger including clues and warning signs Thoughts, feelings, - behaviours and physical presentations
Costs and Benefits of Anger
This is a great resource for students who need to explore and address their anger!
This is a great way to introduce the concepts of “bucket filling” for the beginning of the year or reminders of self-care and positive and empowering learning environments.
There are a total of 60 cards which includes a particular behaviour and on each card the student is asked to reflect on the situation and choose whether it is a Bucket Filler or a Bucket Dipper. The student may require some reflective questioning should they need prompting as to how and why a behaviour may be a bucket filler or a bucket dipper. These cards are created to facilitate conversation, discussion and insight. This resource includes 60 cards which has a narrative of what is happening in the situation, as well as 60 cards without the narrative to encourage the student to really reflect on the situation.
Let’s all be bucket fillers!
Sensory-Based Leisure Activities handout are activities that children enjoy, find relaxing and/or stimulating which are associated with the following senses:
Touch
Smell
Hear
Sight
Movement
These activities can be implemented at home and/or in the classroom environment and are categorised within the various senses domains.
This document also includes information regarding what is an object of reference and how these can be utilized for skill development and communication.
This document also explains cues that can support your child’s understanding (ie: auditory cues, gesture cues, olfactory cues, routine cues, tactual cues, visual cues). To supplement these activities a communication dictionary template (blank and editable) has been included for individualised responses.
This resource is great for preschoolers, kindergarten, children with autism and special needs. Learning to be able to isolate, distinguish and learn categories are vital for language development and executive functioning. This set includes 84 visual cards which students are encouraged to differentiate between the five various food groups.
Meat and Protein
Vegetables and Fruits
Junk Food
Dairy
Breads and Grains
Simply cut out the visual cards and food group categorizing buckets and away you go! There is a lot of versatility in utilizing this activity so you are only limited by your imagination.
This activity can be completed individually, in small or whole group settings.
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So often I hear teachers, parents and therapists ask about where and how to start teaching children how to write.
We are often questioning how to fix poor letter formation habits and how to address pencil grasp issues.
This is a 26 page document which highlights the key aspects to consider when teaching a child to handwrite. For example, how to hold a pencil/pen, seating position, techniques and strategies to initiate handwriting and build upon the current skills. This document also highlights various iPad applications to support the find motor skills and handwriting development.
This is a great easy instructional document which includes numerous material and can be used by other Occupational Therpists, Speech Therapists, Teachers, Allied Health Professionals and Parents! Give your child the best start in life :)
This project is a creative and beautiful way to acknowledge and encourage a kindness mindset within a school or education setting. It is encouraging for the school community to see the tree grow as kindness and good deeds continue to be added to the tree over tree. This helps to foster a positive, encouraging, constructive environment to help build growth mindset, personal character and reduce bullying. This is a great initiative for a whole class or entire school approach to bring about systemic change.
This resource includes:
What is a Kindness Tree?
Plant a Seed of Kindness Poster
Kindness Quotes
Kindness Pledge
Ways you can show Kindness
My Kindness Checklist for Students
Create your own Kindness Tree templates (tree, leaves, hands, apples, hearts and additional decorations)
Extra Notes page
Many today suffer with a damaged sense of self. Some individuals have such profound self-esteem deficits that they have internalized the belief that they are bad and that their future is hopeless. The goal of enhancing self-esteem for these students is not an easy one, but it is an important component of any successful treatment program. This workbook has been developed to help students to develop the tools to help individuals focus on their strengths and abilities, promote feelings of self-worth, encourage a more optimistic attitude and install a hope for their future.
This 38 page workbook addresses important issues that are relevant in relation to increasing self-esteem, understanding feelings, bullying and anger management. This workbook is designed so that the child has an opportunity to reflect on who they are, including to gain further insights into self-esteem, feelings, bullying and anger management.
Some activities are also whole-class activities to encourage self-esteem and empowerment, encouraging all children to isolate and express the things that they like and admire in the others in a very fun way.
These cards are a fun way for teenagers to self reflect on the more deeper and meaningful aspects to life from thoughts, feelings, self-care, emotions, friendships, relationships, goals, priorities. They can be powerful and support the student to explore more than just the skin deep conversations that are generally generated. If you are looking for shallow conversation starters…than these are not for you!
This is a set of 52 cards and their implementation is as versatile as your imagination.
They can be utilized individually, pairs, group or even as a whole class approach.
My students love them! They express that these help them to really think about who they are, what they want and what is important to and for them.
These cards help develop a growth mindset mentality as opposed to a fixed mindset. They also support students so develop understanding, empathy and compassion
for themselves and others.
This File Folder is a great concrete way for students to explore Helpful and Unhelpful Coping Skills.
Students are encouraged to match and sort the various Coping Skills and reflect on whether they are Helpful or Unhelpful.
This resource is versatile and can be used as a quick reference guide, a sort and match activity lesson, within individual or small group sessions or even as a supplement to your SEL lessons! Laminate and glue this resource to a file folder for repeated use and longevity.
You will need scissors, glue and a file folder. Alternatively, you can assemble this resource using hook and look adhesive dots. Simply apply these to the page templates of Helpful and Unhelpful Coping Skills and use the sorting cards to encourage students to differentiate and reflect on the various skills.
This resource includes the following:
About this Resource
Reflection time
Title Pages for the File Folder
Answer Keys
Sorting Templates
Coping Skill Cards in Colour
Black and White Coping Skill Cards for Colouring Version
Create your own Choices Template
Back Cover Option – “I have Helpful Coping Skills” poster and Colouring page.
This is a fun, engaging, creative and non-threatening intervention which is great for students to explore emotional regulation, anger management, reflective practice and self care.
What to do?
1.Encourage students to explore each of the 24 realistic scenarios on each page and reflect on how that scenario would make them feel. This also encourages empathy, compassion and consideration into the feelings and actions of others as they resonate with each scenario.
2.The next step is for the students to explore the “Self-Care Ingredients” list and tick what self-care strategy they could employ and use for that particular scenario. This helps students to reflect, explore and gain insight into their own feelings and behaviours.
3.Students then put those ingredients into the “blender” which is located on each page to cement the lesson. There are 24 visuals for already developed self-care strategies which students can utilize. There are an addition 12 blank visual cards for students to explore some of their own individual and unique self-care strategies that work for them.
4.Lastly, students can create a name for that particular self-care smoothie. This heightens the learning outcomes and students become more likely to explore and employ these self-care strategies within their everyday life.
NOTE – There is a COMPLETED example page so students can see this resource in action!
Creative Intervention to support anxious children to let go of their worries with the help of their worry tree.
This project is a creative way for children to identify and acknowledge their anxieties. Sometimes we all carry around worries. They might be about school, home, friendships or even changes in our life. This activity encourages children to think about their worries and put them on their own worry tree. They can write down all of their worries and put them on the tree so that they don’t need to carry these worries around with them anymore. When the worries have been placed on the tree, it opens up discussion around strategies and ways that they can cope with that worry.
This resource includes:
What is a Worry Tree
My Worries (What do I want to talk about) worksheet
When I feel Worried Brainstorm
Coping Skills Poster
Rainbow Breathing
Breathing & Concentration Exercise
Mindful Senses
Create your own Worry Tree Template (tree, leaves, butterflies, birds)
Extra Notes Page
WHAT TO DO
If you have a worry all you have to do is to write your worry on a leaf. Use some glue and glue your worry on the tree. Your tree will keep it safe until you have explored your worry with someone and thought of some coping strategies. As time goes by, you can use the butterflies and birds to take the worries away!