Heavy Work Laundry Helper
Integrating household chores into a therapeutic activity, focusing on ‘heavy work’ tasks like carrying, lifting, and sorting laundry to provide organizing proprioceptive input.
- Takes
- 30–45 min
- Your setup
- 5 min prep
- Ages
- Ages 8 and up
- Mess
- No mess
- Cost
- Free
- Where
- Indoors
How to do it
- 1Ask the child to carry the heavy basket of dirty laundry to the washing machine (the weight is the therapeutic element).
- 2Use visual labels (colors, garment type) to guide the child in sorting clothes into categories.
- 3Involve them in pulling clothes out of the dryer (more heavy work) and folding simple items like towels and washcloths.
What they're practising
- Proprioceptive regulation
- Practical life skills
- Categorization and sorting
- Organization and routine