Shades Character Activity Book

Meet Shades - our Sensaroo character who represents the sensory profile of visual over-responsiveness and avoiding.

Shades has super eyes! She notices colours, light, and tiny details that most people don’t even see. Sometimes the world looks really bright to her, and strong lights or busy places can feel overwhelming. She feels safest when the lighting is gentle, that’s when her super sight helps her stay calm, focused, and ready to shine.

This Shades activity book is one of 12 separate downloadable PDF booklets, specifically designed by KaBloom occupational therapists, to help support other OTs working with children experiencing sensory processing challenges! 

Shades' booklet is filled with a range of specifically chosen and designed activities and ideas to help OTs support kids who demonstrate visual over-responsiveness and avoidant traits, just like Shades, to understand their unique sensory profiles, and advocate for their sensory needs.  

What you'll find in the workbook: 

• Full colour, downloadable PDF - 22 pages
• "About Me" page: introducing Shades, her sensory profile and favourite things 
• "Am I like Shades?" pages: in written checklist and illustration style – to support you to discuss the Shades' sensory profile with your clients, and support them to reflect on how they might also experience that particular sensory profile 
• Regulation strategies pages: also in written checklist and illustration style – to discuss and brainstorm ways your clients can support and advocate for their proprioceptive needs in different environments. Also includes ways others can help support regulation. 
• "Get Crafty" pages: 'Shades' Silhouette Lamp' craft activity specifically designed with Shades' sensory profile in mind. This craft is a great way to engage children in an activity that supports learning about their sensory profile, but that also offers the opportunity to simultaneously work on other goals – such as fine motor skills, motor planning, and executive functioning. 
• "Get Active" pages: each character has a unique motor-skills based game or activity to support understanding of their sensory profile, while also offering opportunities for real-time regulation, or supporting the development of motor skills.  
• Colouring pages: two colouring pages of Shades in both her regulated and dysregulated pose – these are great multi-purpose pages that you can use in so many ways in your therapy sessions 
• Puppet pages: two full colour puppet cut out templates of Shades in both her regulated and dysregulated pose – ready for you to print and laminate and use in your therapy sessions 
• Parent and educator information sheets – each character booklet has two separate handouts for parents and educators, to support them to understand each sensory profile, and strategies for creating a "Shades-friendly" home or classroom. 

PLEASE NOTE: this is a listing for a digital product - it will be delivered instantly electronically. This is NOT a physical workbook.