Sensory Diets are personalized activity plans designed to help children regulate their sensory needs throughout the day. Sensory Diets aren’t foods that kids eat, but activities they engage in regularly throughout the course of the day to help them maintain optimal regulation for improved engagement in daily life activities and routines. These activities provide specific types of sensory input—such as deep pressure, heavy work, movement, or tactile experiences—that help balance a child’s sensory system, improving their ability to focus, remain calm, and engage in daily activities. Sensory diets are often created by OTs based on a child’s sensory profile, identifying whether they seek, are sensitive to, avoid, or demonstrate low registration of certain sensory experiences. The activities might include activities like jumping on a trampoline, doing animal walks, using weighted blankets, or engaging in calming breathing exercises. Sensory diets are highly adaptable and can be integrated into home, school, or community settings. They are especially beneficial for children with sensory processing differences, ADHD, autism, or anxiety. By incorporating these activities regularly, sensory diets promote self-regulation, improve attention, and support smoother transitions between activities. For this reason, home carryover of the sensory diet is essential for us to see kids’ progress in OT!  Coming to OT once a week to help manage sensory processing is great, but carryover across environments has to happen to see real change. We do our best to collaborate with parents and caregivers when making sensory diets that will work for that child, especially in terms of materials and equipment they have at home, what their schedules and routines are like, and what types of visual supports will help the child engage in these home activities.