Crazy Cans 🥫 An OT Strength, Stability and Coordination Challenge for Teletherapy and Home Learning

[@michelledavis-korngut9649]

Adam, I love all your activities!! I have been a pediatric OT for 30 years and needed a dose of your enthusiasm and creativity!! My clients via teletherapy are a lot of school age boys 8-12 and are enjoying these ALOT!! Keep em coming :)

[@AdamtheOT]

You got it Michelle! That group is my bread and butter 😁 lots more fun challenges, games and activities on the way. Hope you're boys enjoy them (look out for game called "save the spoons" I'll be posting soon, it's great for that age 😊👍)

[@haylilibrande7157]

Thank you so much for sharing your ideas! We need to help my 7yo son improve his fine and gross motor skills and I think he will really enjoy this activity as well as many of the others that you've shared! I'm excited to try this out with him ☺️

[@AdamtheOT]

That's amazing. Well I hope your son enjoys the activity and please do let me know in the comments or message me on insta of you have specific area you'd like some content on 👍😁❤️

[@shawnbowden5640]

I love all the activities using the cans. My OT and I did the stacking one yesterday and the class loved it. I was surprised at how much participation we got just from using cans. Keep up the great work I love your ideas.

[@talithatjandra7086]

I love your activities. Can you share some wrist exercises? We do some restaurant/waiter activities but I would like more

[@jessicaneves83]

This is so fun and simple! I find myself checking your videos every week as I'm planning my telehealth sessions because my kiddos love your activities! Keep them coming! I'd love some new fun ideas for crossing midline, weight-bearing on the upper extremities, maybe something for more severely involved kids.

[@AdamtheOT]

Thanks Jessica! Love your comment 🤗 I'm trying to come up with more activities that are super gradeable based on ability or age. Ideally I try to make a game I could use with a child all the way from 4-12 years of age and then it gives the therapist a huge range of difficulty they can scale up or down based on the individual child. I have one coming out today called "save the spoons" that's a good example of that 😁👍

[@lindseylop8988]

Thanks, Adam! I have been using bands on the cans in my teletherapy. I also have been using the cans as weights, having them hold straight out in front and count to 5 or 10. The tumbling tins looks challenging!

[@rjag2044]

Hi Adam! Your a rock star! You rock OT! You are so creative and your activities are fun and motivating! I love how the activities address so many areas using very simple household items. I recently started doing telehealth OT and your activities have been a blessing! I work with underprivileged kids and it's difficult coming up with treatment ideas without my equipment. Thank you! Thank you! I look forward to more activities!

[@racheleising2367]

Thank you so much for the wonderful teletherapy ideas!

[@AdamtheOT]

You are very welcome Rachel! 😁🙏

[@carolhesch4008]

Thanks for your awesome videos Adam! Love your energy and creativity!

[@AdamtheOT]

Thanks Carol I really appreciate it! Thank goodness I'm in a job where that kind of energy is helpful. I think everyone would hate me within a week if I worked in a quiet office 🤣🤣🤣

[@bweber02]

I love your activities that work on shoulder stability. My clients were getting tired of yoga and easel work!

[@donnakabonna4111]

Love your videos and used and adapted so many of your activities into my teletherapy sessions! I work with 3-5 year olds so we used playdough jars instead of tin cans to play the “Can We Build It” game. Perfect size and weight for my little munchkins! Keep these ideas coming. We won’t be going back to school

[@donnakabonna4111]

Until September if we are lucky

[@AdamtheOT]

Thanks so much Donna! 😁🙏 great idea to use the playdough tubs for "can we build it". I love making these little videos so I'll keep them coming, if you have any specific skills youd like to see please do let me know 😁👍

[@oksanadekhkanov9136]

You are great! Thank you for all these activities!

[@marcydeatherage5329]

Great activity! Would love to see any fun activities for kids that have little or no use of one hand (stroke, CP). Hard to think of ideas for proximal strength that are still fun!

[@AdamtheOT]

Thanks for the suggestion Marcy. I'll have a think and try to think of some good ones for you 🤔. Is your goal to encourage more use of the effected hand or to challenge coordination, strength, dexterity etc with tasks that only require 1 hand?

[@marcydeatherage5329]

@@AdamtheOT Both would be great!

[@cindygross3993]

Love your videos, thank you! I would love more activities to support keyboarding skills through teletherapy.

[@AdamtheOT]

That's a great idea Cindy. Let me think on it. I have a few kids that work on key boarding but lots of the work is within the shared screen or looking at the keyboard, I'll think about the logistics of how to capture them on video 👍

[@suewhitley1155]

So creative! Thank you for sharing!

[@robinkublick8826]

Can't wait to try this with my bigger kids!

[@rinythomas7246]

Awesome. This is better than the egg activity. Keep posting.

[@AdamtheOT]

Thanks Riny. I wanted to post a short series of 3 instead of a single game so parents and therapists could get a good 10-20 min of their session with something as simple as a tin can 👍😁

[@roxyllegozun1198]

You are so creative! Thank you for sharing! :)

[@AdamtheOT]

Thanks Roxylle! 😄🙏

[@sallybroadhurst1036]

My students are really enjoying your activities! Thank You Adam!

[@AdamtheOT]

That's amazing Sally! I love getting these messages 😄🙏 Where are your students based?

[@sallybroadhurst1036]

@@AdamtheOT Students are in Rehoboth, Delaware...far away from Dubai.

[@yasminamran5]

Can you do activity that helps emotional regulation such as you did with the cup and gluv pop by breathing ?

[@barigoroway5191]

This activity is great- I have some boys I work with who are def too cool for school. They will love this!

[@AdamtheOT]

Hope they enjoy it!

[@annettecioffi-parker313]

Great! love this! Any activities that address Executive functioning?

[@nuritharash-kantor7982]

thanks for all the ideas!!

[@AdamtheOT]

You're most welcome Nurit! I have a lot of fun doing them 😄

[@kristenasencio6918]

Love your ideas! Any suggestions for a significantly visually impaired preschooler? Would love a bunch of fresh ideas.... thanks!

[@AdamtheOT]

Thanks Kristen. Happy to help, what skills are you hoping to develop with your preschooler? 🤔

[@kristenasencio6918]

@@AdamtheOT she's an early 3 year old. Being able to do some classroom activities, such as stringing beads, shape sorters, simple puzzles. Also finger isolation which will eventually be needed for braille writer.

[@latoyahenry9216]

Great ideas!!!

[@AdamtheOT]

Thanks Latoya! 🙏😁

[@ACF12309]

I love these, thanks!

[@ri4751]

Love this!!

[@AdamtheOT]

Thank you 😁🙏

[@dhrubachakraborty5220]

Happy Holi fay

[@AdamtheOT]

😁🙏❤

[@juliawishart2802]

What ages do you use this with?

[@AdamtheOT]

Ive had kids as young as 3-4 use the band cans and tumbling tins and as old as 16 do all 3. One of the reasons I like these so much is they are very easily graded. A younger learner may need a little more assistance with ther initial set up but all 3 activities benefit from having a very clear goal and are kind of self correcting (if they don't do it right the can will just fall off) 😁

[@juliawishart2802]

Thanks. It looks so fun, can’t wait to try it in Telehealth appointments next week!

[@bendi3657]

Adamremember me you did OT WItH ME