Random Feeding/Oral Motor Activity Generator
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Introducing New Food Textures Activity
Description: Do you have a client who is resistant to eating a variety of textures? If you need to introduce a new texture, try these strategies:
- Texture Approximations: Start with a texture that the child can tolerate and gradually mix more and more of the new texture in. Start slow, these children can be super sensitive!
- Use Helper Foods: Add new textured foods to a food that the child already likes, such as dipping a preferred food in a new texture
- Alter the Environment: Remove extra sensory input (like a distracting, noisy cafeteria) and make it as calm and comfortable as possible
- Food Exploration: Let's forget eating it for a minute. Try some fun ways the child can explore the food without having to eat it just yet, such as finger painting with pudding!
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NOTICE!
Please note that this is intended for fun. I fully understand that picking a therapy activity at random and forcing all of your clients to do it would be a terrible idea. Don't do that. Instead, you can use this to get an idea of the types of materials that we have in our membership site and hopefully give you some ideas when you're feeling uninspired and burned out. Thanks! ~ Carrie Clark