Heavy Work

What Are Heavy Work Activities?

Heavy work activities are anything that involves pushing, pulling, or lifting heavy objects or items, and they are a type of sensory activity. Lots of playground activities and household chores qualify as heavy work activities.

How Can Heavy Work Activities Help Kids?

The key ingredient to every heavy work activity is that it stimulates our sense of proprioception, which is one of our senses that you may have never learned about.

Proprioception is stimulated through running, jumping, crashing, hugging, climbing, pushing, lifting, and pulling. MANY kids, adults, and those with special needs like Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), relax, calm down, and even have improved focus when they get proprioceptive input. Heavy work is one direct way to get that type of input through an organized activity.

Chiron Support can offer a number of fun activities that are classified as Heavy Work.

Heavy Work - Bush Walking

At Chiron Support there is an up hill and down hill circular track, along the way there is plenty of opportunity for digging, raking pine needles, carrying stones and pushing a wheel barrow.

Heavy Work - Activity course, tunnel and trampoline

The dog agility area, the tunnel and the trampoline area has lots of opportunities for Heavy Work.

Heavy Work - Animal Walking

Depending on the client there are various animals who would like to go for a walk. Walking the goats also adds some extra "heavy work" with a bit of tug of war.