Heavy Work Activity Cards
$4.00
Printable Movement Cards for Sensory Input, Regulation, and Focus
Do you work with a child who fidgets, has trouble sitting still, or seems constantly on the move?
These Heavy Work Activity Cards are designed to provide calming, organizing sensory input through movement and resistance activities. Perfect for sensory diets, classroom brain breaks, therapy sessions, or home routines—this printable set makes it easy to support self-regulation in a fun and functional way.
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These cards are normally $6.00 Need to add heavy work to help kids regulate emotions, or to use as a coping tool for sensory needs? Heavy work is a valuable strategy to add calming proprioceptive input for whole body awareness, regulation, and stress relief too. Help kids re-group or add movement into learning with these themed brain break cards. 11 pages of themed heavy work activity cards, with 8 activities for each theme.
Description
Use these heavy work cards to help with building body awareness, motor planning abilities, proprioceptive input, or a movement activity as a brain break to pay attention between learning activities.
Why You Need Heavy Work Activity Cards:
- Provides proprioceptive input to support regulation and body awareness
- Helps children calm their bodies, increase focus, and transition between activities
- Ready-to-use, no-prep printable cards—just print, cut, and go
- Ideal for creating sensory diets or movement breaks in any setting
- Created by an occupational therapist to support real-life sensory needs
Use heavy Work Activity Cards When:
- A child needs calming movement to help regulate during the day
- You’re building a sensory diet or brain break station
- A student is overwhelmed, dysregulated, or inattentive in class
- You want a quick, visual way to suggest heavy work without stopping to explain
Heavy Work Activities Support Development Of:
- Sensory regulation and self-calming
- Body awareness and proprioceptive processing
- Motor planning and coordination
- Emotional regulation and attention
- Executive functioning (transitions, routines, independence)
In the set of cards, you’ll find heavy work activities in the following themes:
1. Trucks Heavy Work Activities
2. Insects Heavy Work Activities
3. Sea Animals Heavy Work Activities
4. Farm Animals Heavy Work Activities
5. Jungle Animals Heavy Work Activities
6. Woodland Animals Heavy Work Activities
7. Superheros Heavy Work Activities
8. Sports Heavy Work Activities
9. Monsters Heavy Work Activities
10. Summer Heavy Work Activities
11. Butterfly Life Cycle Heavy Work Activities
What’s Included in this printable set:
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A printable set of heavy work activity cards with kid-friendly illustrations
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Easy-to-follow actions like pushing, pulling, jumping, and wall pushes
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Perfect for laminating, placing on a ring, or using in a calm-down space or movement corner
Perfect For:
- Occupational therapists
- Teachers and classroom aides
- Parents and caregivers
- Counselors or support staff
- Homeschoolers and learning pods
- Each activity page includes 8 movement and heavy work cards in that theme.
These heavy work activities can be added to home programs, teletherapy activity plans, or used as brain breaks during learning and play.
