1. Carry heavy items (baskets with cardboard blocks, groceries for Mom, etc.)
2. Mop the floors
3. Allow child to chew gum, eat chewy or crunchy foods, or sip water from a water bottle with a straw while doing homework
4. Push or pull boxes with toys or a few books in it
5. Pillow cases with a few stuffed animals in it for weight, pushing or pulling up a ramp, incline or stairs
6. Take the cushions off the sofas, vacuum under them, then put them back. Can also climb on them, hide under them, jump and "crash" into them, play sandwich games with them
7. Pull other kids around on a sheet or blanket
8. Roller skate uphill
9. Pull a heavy trash can
10. Yard work, including mowing the lawn, raking grass/leaves, pushing wheelbarrow
11. Housework including vacuuming and mopping, carrying buckets of water to clean with or to
water flowers/plants/trees
12. Shovel sand into a wheelbarrow, wheel the wheelbarrow to a spot, dump out sand and use a rake to level it out. (functional for filling in low spots in backyard)
13. Pull a friend or heavy items in a wagon
14. Push a friend in a wheelbarrow
15. Milkshake rewards sipped through a narrow straw
16. Suck applesauce through a straw
17. Scrub rough surfaces with a brush
18. Carrying heavy cushions
19. Pillow fights
20. Playing in sandbox with damp heavy sand
21. Have the child "help" by pushing in chairs to a table or push chairs into table after a meal
22. Push a child's cart filled with cans and then put the cans away on a low shelf where the child needs to be in a weight bearing quadruped (on hands and knees) position
23. After a bath, parents can squeeze child and rub him/her briskly with a towel
24. Use heavy quilts at night and tight flannel pajamas
25. Swimming. Also, have child dive after weighted sticks thrown in pool
26. Dancing
27. Activities such as gymnastics, horseback riding, wrestling, karate
28. Bathe the dog
29.
30. Carry the laundry basket
31. Sweep, mop, vacuum the floors
32. Jump or climb in inner tubes
33. Fill up a child's suitcase with heavy items (such as books) and push/pull the suitcase across the room
34. When travelling, let child pull own small suitcase on wheels
35. Go "shopping" with a child's shopping cart filled with items
36. Child can help change the sheets on the bed, then toss the linens down the stairs
37. Go "camping" with a heavy blanket pulled across a few chairs. Child can help set up and take down the blanket
38. Child can help rearrange his/her bedroom furniture
39. Have child put large toys and equipment away
40. Wipe off the table after dinner
41. Help dust the furniture
42. Climbing activities (such as playground equipment)
43. Swing from the trapeze bar
44. Push against a wall
45. Fill up big toy trucks with heavy blocks, push with both hands to knock things down
46. Sports activities involving running and jumping
47. Two adults can swing child in a sheet. Watch child's face carefully to note when child has had enough
48. Have the child color a "rainbow" with large paper on the floor or with sidewalk chalk outside while child is on his/her hands and knees
49. Play "cars" under the kitchen table (or table in classroom) where the child pushes the car with one hand while creeping and weight bearing on the other hand
50. Hot dog" game where child lies across end of a blanket and is rolled (ends up inside the rolled up blanket with head outside)
51. Walk up a ramp or incline
52. Use theraband or tubing attached to a door and pull it then let it snap. Supervision necessary.
53. Wood projects requiring sanding and hammering
54. Play wrestling: pushing game where two people lock hands facing each other and try to see who can push and make the other person step back first. Use other body parts also, but be sure to have rules (no hitting, no biting, no scratching, one person says stop then both stop)
55. Open doors for people
56. Quiet squeeze toys such as the cow, fondly named by everyone as "Moo" . Kids can be taught to squeeze Moo or the likes of him on their laps under their desks so as not to disturb the class
57. Chew on fish tank (aquarium) tubing, theratubing, or refrigerator tubing, if appropriate. One therapist stated that "refrigeration tubing (the kind the water runs through to the ice maker in your freezer) is (FDA?) approved while aquarium tubing is not. I cut the tubing into 2-3 inch strips and put it on the end of the elementary school age child's pencil to be an appropriate 'chewy' when food is not allowed"
58. Chair push ups
59. Fall into a beanbag chair
60. Jumping and rolling games
61. Slowly roll a ball or bolster over the child, applying pressure
62. Bounce on a Hippity Hop ball
63. Sandwich games (child is place between beanbags, sofa cushions,
mattresses and light pressure is applied to top layer)
64. Play catch with a heavy ball. Bounce and roll a heavy ball
65. Push weighted carts or boxes across carpeted floor
66. Animal walks (crab walk, bear walk, army crawl)
67. Play "row, row, row your boat" both sitting on the floor, pushing and pulling each other
68. Rice play, koosh balls, water play, jello play, theraputty
69. Mini trampoline
70. Stack chairs
71. Two children can play "tug of war" with jump rope or heavy theraband. (If you use the theraband, children need supervision so they don't purposely let go of theraband and "snap" the other child)
72. Isometric exercise breaks
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