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Intervention: playground obstacle course
Upgrade: add more obstacles and use a variety of different activities on the playground
Downgrade: pick two obstacles on the playground and do them multiple times

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Intervention: Yoga
Upgrade: do more complex poses
Downgrade: work on just one pose for the whole session

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Intervention: Playing Kan Jam
Upgrade: throw a big ball into the cans instead of frisbee
Downgrade: put the cans closer together

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Intervention: making bracelets or necklaces using beads.
Upgrade: Use designs with more beads
Downgrade: Use bigger beads

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Intervention: Cartwheels
upgrade: try going uphill against gravity
downgrade: try going downhill with gravity helping

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Intervention: Swinging
upgrade: pump harder to go higher and challenge balance
downgrade: use swing with enclosed seat or seatbelt to ensure stability

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Intervention: cornhole
upgrade: move the boards further apart
downgrade: have the client move closer to the board before throwing or use a bigger board with a bigger hole

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Intervention: puzzle
upgrade: only use one hand
downgrade: get an easier puzzle with bigger and less pieces

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Intervention: Origami
Upgrade: Make harder designs or make it a competition.
Downgrade: Have it already pre cut and a pattern ready.

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Intervention: Animal walk races
Upgrade: Increase the distance and race length
Downgrade: Incorporate 'red light green light' activity to provide rest breaks

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Intervention: Obstacle course that has equipment requiring balance

Upgrade: Challenge child to use one foot on balance activities
Downgrade: Make the course shorter with flatter surfaces to balance on

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Twister game
Grade up: add more people to the game to add a smaller space to navigate
Grade down allow them to "reset" and cue them on moves they can do to make it easier.

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Intervention: Corn hole

Upgrade: Having the target placed further away and using heavier bean bags to toss

Downgrade: Have the target placed closer to the child

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Floor is lava tag on the playground

Make harder: is to have them move/ climb around to a new area every 30sec
Make easier: allow them to touch the ground for 3 steps or give them help climbing and moving around the playground

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Intervention: Building a lego tower

Upgrade: Using one hand at a time to manipulate the lego pieces

Downgrade: making a small tower with only a few pieces needed

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Volleyball toss/play

Make harder: Make them volley for as many as they can and challenge them to break their record.
Make easier: Have them toss the ball to you  or to themselves

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Intervention: Badminton
Upgrade: Play one on one for a game with 3 rounds.
Downgrade: Play with a bigger birdie or with multiple people

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Boondoggle - with their choice of color and easier pattern to start
To make harder - add more difficult patterns and more threads .
To make easier- do more simple pattern and less threads

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Intervention: Musical Chairs
Upgrade: Have less chairs or make it so you have to run instead of walk around a circle that's not right next to the chair.
Downgrade: Tell them when your about to stop the music or stop on a certain word.

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Intervention: Relay races
Upgrade: add obstacles
downgrade: shorter distances between passing off roles

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intervention: swimming
upgrade: swim where child cannot reach
downgrade: use flotation aid

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Intervention: ultimate frisbee
Upgrade: run around to score in a goal
downgrade: throw and catch from the same spot and use a ring shaped frisbee

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Intervention: making a tissue paper flower
- requires folding paper, twisting a pipe cleaner, and separating the papers
Up grade: cut shapes in
Downgrade: use pre folded paper

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Intervention: Dodgeball
Upgrade: Don't have teams, instead have it so everyone is against everyone.
Downgrade: Have only one ball so everyone can focus better on that one then a bunch.

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Intervention: Yoga or "balance poses"
Upgrade: do a variety of movements
Downgrade: focus on one specific movement

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Intervention: Rainbow loom
Upgrade: Child has to follow a pattern
Downgrade: You help the child get started

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Intervention: Kicking a ball while crab walking
Upgrades: have targets or goals that the child has to kick the ball into
Downgrades: remove the ball and just focus on crab walking

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Intervention: Animal Save Game
Upgrade: Spread the "islands" and the animals out further across the room
Downgrades: Utilize a smaller space where the child doesn't have to move too far to reach each "islands" and their subsequent animals.

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Intervention: Basketball

Upgrades: Use a weighted ball, a bigger court, and a higher hoop.
Downgrades: Allow the child to play without having to dribble the ball.

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Intervention: Ping Pong

Upgrade: Play on a real-sized ping pong table, with a small, bright colored ball.

Downgrade: Create a smaller ping pong table and use bigger balls and paddles.

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Intervention: Rock Climbing

Upgrade: Have the child climb for longer amounts of time, higher up, or harder routes.
Downgrade: Instruct the child climb slowly and closer to the ground.

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Intervention: Engaging in turn taking, color and number discrimination, and following directions while playing UNO.

Upgrade: play with 2+ players
Downgrade: change some rules (only match colors OR numbers)

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Intervention: Playing PopNCatch
Upgrade: have obstacles in between the people playing
Downgrade: stand closer to have a shorter distance between the two people

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Intervention: Painting
Upgrade: Use a qtip or a smaller mini brush
Downgrade: Utilize a larger handled brush

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Ninja warrior obstacle course:
Trapeze Swings
Balance beam
Foam roller/bolster ride
Mat block hop
Ladder
Ball pit crash
Upgrade: harder obstacles
Downgrade: obstacles on flat surface

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Intervention: Wiffle ball toss
Grade up: have child stand farther away from targets
Grade down: Have child stand closer to targets, increase number of colored/winning targets

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Rapidash on balance beam
Place tiles alongside the beam and the child will dash to click the color the game shouts out in the time provided. While maintaining Balance in beam
Downgrade: on tape line or flat
Upgrade: raise beam decrease time limit for goal number

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Water bottle flip competition
Water bottles are filled with different amounts increasing as you go up. Partners face each other and try to beat the other on time it takes to successfully flip each one.
Upgrade: larger heavier bottles
Downgrade: all bottles have ideal amount of water

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Intervention- Freeze Tag

Grade up- Have obstacles in the space
Grade down- have child walk instead of run

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Intervention: using a fine tipped paintbrush with a thin handle dip into small containers while poster is hanging on the board.

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Intervention: Animal Movement Obstacle Course; Create an obstacle course using cones or markers and place animal flashcards or pictures at different stations. Assign each animal movement to a different station, such as frog jumps, bear crawls, crab walks, and snake slithers. Have the child complete the obstacle course by performing the animal movements at each station. Time the child as they complete the course and challenge them to beat their previous time.
Grade Up: Increase the number of stations
Grade Down: Simplify the movements for the animals

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Intervention: Obstacle Course
Grade Up: Reduce Time Limit
Grade Down: Reduce obstacles

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Intervention: Juggling with two people
Grade Up: Increase items being juggled
Grade Down: Reduce distance between partners

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Intervention: Play-Doh Sculpting
Grade Up: Complete a design that requires a lot of detail
Grade Down: Remove time limit for intervention

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Intervention: Table football

Grade-up: Have child use all handles on their team against someone also using all handles. Use a lighter ball (harder to control)

Grade-down: have child play alone. Only have opponent use half of available handles on their team. Use a heavier ball (easier to control...to an extent)

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Intervention: Just Dance

Grade-up: Play with faster songs. Do multiple songs in a row. Play with multiple people

Grade-down: play slower songs. Play songs that don't require full body movemenr

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Intervention: dodgeball

Grade up: Use weighted balls. Client would throw them at target (inanimate) and at the same time would try to avoid getting hit with lighter balls being thrown at them.

Grade down: Use lighter balls. Play with less people. Warn the client before a ball is thrown at them.

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Intervention: Replacement Parts Perfection Game

Grade-up: Have client complete everything within a certain time period

Grade-down: have client only complete certain lines of the game

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Intervention: Group Dance (with positions and movements) having the dance group work together for some tricks/positions and perform moves at the same time

Upgrade: add in tricks or make sure it is in sync

Downgrade, everyone makes up a move or no positions just 2 lines or something simple

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Intervention: Ghosts in the Graveyard (playgroud game) The object of the game is to find the ghost – a player who is hiding. The player who finds the ghost's hiding spot, yells “Ghost in the Graveyard” to alert the other players. The player who finds the ghost is safe. All the other players must race back to base.

Upgrade: Have everyone start on playground equipment

Downgrade: No playground equipment, can also do the first to speak it the ghosts an everyone else has to run

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Intervention: Bocce Ball

Upgrade: Play with others, have to navigate different balls that may appear in your path or do it on uneven surfaces outside

Downgrade: Have little white ball closer, use bigger bocce ball or soft ones for indoors

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Intervention: Egg dye and decorating (through coloring with wax crayons to then dip in dye)

Upgrade: Complex patterns, draw with white wax or lighter colors (harder to see) and use the grippers to pick egg out of dye or add more colors

Downgrade: Just use one dye, add stickers or sticky jewels in stead of coloring a pattern

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Intervention: Wall Climbing
Upgrade: Time the activity and compete with other children.
Downgrade: Allowing the child to complete the activity on a lower wall with larger stepping stones.

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Intervention: scooter board activity
Upgrade: Playing with more people, in a team- more competitive
Downgrade: Playing alone, not worrying about bumping into others

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Intervention: parachute activity
Upgrade: Having more people in the game and heavier balls on the parachute
Downgrade: Having a smaller parachute with few people

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Intervention- pom-pom activity
Upgrade: Using a clothes pin/tweezer to pick up the pom pom and onto a paper
Downgrade: Using a larger pom pom for the activity to make it easier to grasp

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Intervention: Kick ball
Upgrade: play in a larger space with more players
Downgrades: play in a smaller space

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Intervention: Line Tag
Upgrade: play in a bigger area with more players
Downgrade: have a smaller amount of people play within a contained space

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Intervention: Wall Ball
Upgrade: have the child use their non-dominant arm to throw the ball from a further distance
Downgrade: use a bigger ball to play with

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Intervention: stringing beads onto a string to make a bracelet.
Upgrade: using different objects with a narrow opening to string onto the string.
Downgrade: using beads with larger holes.

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Intervention: Freeze Dance
Upgrade: Use a faster song to dance to, requiring faster dance moves
Downgrade: Have the child/children follow a dance such as the chicken dance or copying the OT

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Intervention: Balance Beam Obstacle Course
Upgrade: Create a more difficult course by having inclines or using thinner balance beams
Downgrade: Have wider balance beams and a simple and flat course

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Intervention: Spike Ball
Upgrade: Play with more people or use more than one ball
Downgrade: Use a larger ball or play with only one other person

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Intervention: Bracelet Weaving
Upgrade: Follow a more intricate pattern, or a pattern that uses more string
Downgrade: Follow a simple pattern such as a 3 string braid, or use thicker string

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Intervention: Play human hungry hungry hippos with two people. (one being the hippo and the other holding the person's legs and moving them)
Upgrade: have the person lay on their stomach on a scooter and reach for smaller balls
Downgrade: use bigger balls or hold onto a box to help scoop up the balls.

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Intervention: play bat-mitten
Upgrade: play with a group of people and make it a competition
Downgrade: find a bigger birdy if possible or use a small ball

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Intervention: playing with legos
Upgrade: follow along with a lego kit
Downgrade: play freely with the legos

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Intervention: Flag football
Upgrade: add more flags to each player, smaller ball
Downgrade: walking only or each player only having 1 flag

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Intervention: make boondoggle key chain (2 piece box)
Upgrade: challenging pattern
Downgrade: simple pattern (Chinese staircase)

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Intervention: 3 legged race
Upgrade: add hurdles to step over
Downgrade: walk only or tie around their waist

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Intervention: playing 4 square
Upgrade: smaller ball
Downgrade: allow children to catch the ball before tossing it

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intervention: kickball, requires pitching, kicking, and running
Upgrade: take turns pitching and kicking to practice UE and LE strength and coordination
Downgrade: pitch with both hands, pitch from a shorter distance

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Intervention: Puzzle game
Upgrade: smaller puzzle pieces, more pieces
Downgrade: larger pieces, less pieces

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Dodgeball
Grade Up: more balls and less players ratio
Grade Down: less balls and more players ration

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Intervention: place pom poms into cups according to color ex: green pom into green cup
Upgrade: use beads to require finer grasp or use tweezers to require more strength
Downgrade: use larger pom poms or a ball into a bucket to reduce grasp demands

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DIY Laser Tag:
-Set up streamers to symbolize the "lazers"
Grade Up: have children play tag through the course without bumping into the "lasers".
Grade Down: have the child go through the course on their own time.

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Intervention: bean bag tic tac toe
Create a tic tac toe board with tape on the floor or chalk outside, have 2 kids or the child and the OT play tic tac toe by tossing bean bags into squares
Upgrade: have the child make the board, have them stand far away when throwing
Downgrade: stand close to the board and drop into the square

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Intervention: Theraputty and removing beads
Upgrade: find smaller beads, specific colors
Downgrade: find bigger beads, find smaller number of beads

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Intervention: obstacle course that requires jumping, a balance beam, and stepping stones
Upgrade: Have the child set up the obstacle course
Downgrade: Make the course shorter and don't require standing on 1 foot

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Playing Ladder Ball
Grade Up: Stand further away and pick a certain one to hit.
Grade Down: Stand closer and aim for any of them.

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Intervention: Wiggle Bike
Upgrade: lay down obstacles like cones to bike around
Downgrade: use gravity to help movement so go down a hill, take breaks in between long distances

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Intervention: "Feeding" our tennis ball friend!
Grade Up: Use a clothespin to pick up "food".  Then squeeze the tennis ball to open the mouth and feed our friend.
Grade Down: Use your hand to pick up the food instead of a clothespin, and use the table as a hard surface to help you sqeeze the mouth open.

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Intervention: Hide and Seek Tag
Upgrade: kids can run, frog hop, bear crawl, and skip around the room, use obstacles kids need to move through to get away from the person that is "it"
Downgrade: use a smaller space for hiding

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Intervention: Rock Climbing Wall
Upgrade: only touch certain colored rocks. For example, only use the blue rock to get to the top.
Downgrade: Wear shoes or special that provide more grip on the rocks.

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Intervention: Jumping Rope
Upgrade: When jumping over the rope do a "double under" where the rope rotates under your feet.
Downgrade: Do line jumping instead of using a rope.

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Intervention: Playing Jenga
Upgrade: use smaller blocks for the tower, or use an object such as tweezers to push/push the blocks from the tower instead of your hands.
Downgrade: build a tower using the Jenga blocks

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Intervention: Playing jacks
Upgrade: bounce the ball with your dominant hand, then scoop up multiple jacks at once with the same hand.
Downgrade: bounce the ball with one hand, then scoop only 1 jack with the opposite hand.

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Intervention: Jump the Noodle/Rope - group of children with one child in the middle holding the noodle or rope. The other children stand around them in a circle. The person in the middle then spins around with the noodle/rope on the ground. The other children must jump over it once it gets to them.
Upgrade: bigger group of children; play it at a faster pace; use something bigger (like a noodle) so they have to jump higher
Downgrade: make it a slower paced game; use something like a rope so the children don't have to jump as high

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Sock skating on tile floor

upgrade: make them go through a certain course or do different moves to complete it, or if in a group make it a race

downgrade: have the kid do different moves while stationary, make the course shorter, have it be in a straight line

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Intervention: Red Light Green Light - can be played in groups of 3 or more
Upgrades: play with a larger group of people; have the children freeze for a longer period of time; play it outside on an uneven surface to aid with balance and muscle control
Downgrades: play with a smaller group of people; freeze for a shorter amount of time; play indoors or on an even surface

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Hippity hop ball course

upgrade: have the child bounce longer distances with more complicated paths

downgrade: have the child bounce a short distance or just in a straight line

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Intervention: Playing frisbee
Upgrade: stand further away from partner or use non-dominant hand
Downgrade: stand closer to partner

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Intervention: Playing Kerplunk
Upgrade: Playing with more sticks
Downgrade: Using less sticks as well as possibly making bigger sticks

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Intervention: Toilet tag

Upgrade: Have kids hold out their whole arm, play in a larger area, and crouch instead of kneeling

Downgrade: Sit down and hold out hand when out

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Intervention: Martial Arts

Upgrade: Use more advanced moves like a jump spinning reverse roundhouse kick

Downgrade: Use static movements like a front ball kick

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Intervention: Playing the game elefun

Upgrade: Use a larger area, have more butterflies, and use a smaller net

Downgrade: Use a smaller area, less butterflies, and a larger net

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Intervention: Rock climbing wall/treadwall
Upgrade: make speed of rock climbing wall move faster
Downgrade: OT can provide support to client's body

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Intervention: Playing operation

Upgrade: Use thinner handled tweezers or forceps and add a timed component

Downgrade: Use thicker handled tweezers and larger space to grab the object

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Intervention: hopscotch
Upgrade: create smaller boxes
Downgrade: hop using both feet instead of one

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Intervention: Hydro Lacrosse -playing lacrosse (mini sticks, throwing ball back and forth to partner in a pool)
Upgrade:  stand further away from partner
Downgrade: use a bigger yet lighter ball