Sorting or counting coins is a mindful activity.
Do you sometimes feel anxious or overwhelmed? Mindful activities can help you feel calm. This video shows you how to sort coins in easy steps. It also shows you how to make it a sensory experience. Sensory input includes: tactile, olfactory, visual, auditory, vestibular and proprioceptive.
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Do you enjoy gardening?
This video shows you how to plant seedling into a bigger post in easy steps. Its a good activity to practice using your fine motor skills and following instructions. It is also a nice activity to do outside. Do you like craft?
Do you like gardening? This video shows you how to make a hanging plant pot in easy steps. It is a good activity to practice your creative and gardening skills. Are doing chores at home important to you?
Would you like to make these activities more fun? This video shows you how to make washing-up a sensory experience. Sensory input includes: auditory, tactile, visual, olfactory, vestibular and proprioceptive. Do you like craft?
This video shows you how you can decorate a box using old pictures and calendars. It gives you tips on how to use the box. This activity is good to practice: your creative and fine motor skills, following and giving instructions and making choices. How and why it is good to take deep breaths to help you get and stay well. These are for anyone to do but you can get some more help and advice from your local Physiotherapy team.
If you are very unwell and/or unable to say a whole sentence without stopping for breath you must seek urgent medical advice. Here is the second general exercise group session. You will need a sturdy chair and some weights (a water bottle or tins of beans). This video consists of a demonstration of the movements and alternative variations you can do.
Follow Gwen's video to give your arms and body a lovely stretch. Look out for the cat and pigeons in the background!
Find a comfortable place to lie down. This video will show you some ways to stretch your hips and back, ending with a pose called 'happy baby!'
This session consists of a short warm up, followed by 6 exercises and a cool down.
All the exercises are done whilst in sitting, a suitable sturdy chair is required. Some of the exercises are weight optional, if you don’t have weights you can use tins of beans or bottles of water etc. If the pace of the session is to quick feel free to pause as required. PNF is a way for support staff/ family to help individuals to give their arms and legs a good stretch while reinforcing helpful movement patterns by encouraging brain signals to be sent from the skin to the brain and back to the muscle. This helps promote movement and relax tight muscles when it’s done on a regular basis.
Soothe boxes are filled with items that soothe your sense. It is an easy way to find things that help you feel calm when you are feeling anxious or overwhelmed. This video shows you how to make one.
Do you like cooking? This video shows you how to make sorbet. It is a good activity to help you practice your cooking skills.
Here is the first of our general exercise sessions. There are options to make it easier or more difficult. Please always work within what feels comfortable for you.
This video shows you how to make salt dough. You can make models and sculptures out of the dough and then bake them. You don't want to eat them though! This is a good activity to help you practice skills such as: cooking, using your hands, following instructions and being creative. It's also a good activity for people who like touching squidgy things!
Try making pizza toasty! This activity is a great way to practice your cooking skills and following instructions. It is also a good activity to practice being creative with cooking (trying different pizza toppings) and problem solving (finding ingredients you already have at home).
This video shows you how to mindfully doodle. Mindful doodling can help keep you focused and help you to feel calm. It is a creative activity and is a simple exercise for people of different skill levels.
This is a sensory activity exploring water and other items such as bubbles, balloons and balls.
This video shows you how to make a smoothy. It is a good activity to practice your cooking skills.
Please exercise within your own limits. These videos are designed to support you whilst you are at home during the Coronavirus. Choose the videos that best suit your needs, and stay careful - if in doubt, watch the video through first. We hope you enjoy them and find them helpful.
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