This is a really personal decision, but your comments here indicate that you should lean towards speech-language pathology. I would also say you could look into play therapy. Incidentally, I have friends in all three fields.
If you want a crash mat, you can buy a crash mat. You don’t need to be an OT for that.
If you have a disinterest in focusing primarily on daily living skills, the OT role may not be well-suited to you, since that is exactly what OTs focus on. However, there are many ways to develop daily living skills, and that doesn’t mean that your days will be endless marches of practicing walking (in fact, if you’re working with children, it’s unlikely). One of my colleagues who is an occupational therapist used video games to help injured veterans re-develop basic motor skills and to help improve their mood and motivate them to move. I know another person who worked in Child Life at a hospital who used Pokemon Go to get children out of their beds and moving and make them happy so they were more comfortable in the hospital/treatment.
Occupational therapy uses a variety of different methods to help people develop daily living skills, so if you’re more concerned about method than outcome, I’d poke around a bit and talk to more occupational therapists about how they conduct their practice.
Your interests seem really well-aligned to speech language pathology, though, and your only real concern is that therapy may be too repetitive. I’d say that it’s up to you as the professional to make it not too repetitive! One of my best friends is an SLP, and she plays games with her students to help them develop language skills.
She sometimes has fun with her students depending on what they’re doing, but I will say that having “fun” at work is less common, and less important, than being content at work or enjoying the job. I work in video games. Probably the #2 reaction that I get after I tell people that is some combination of “your job must be so fun!” or “so do you get to play video games all day?” I really love my job, and I DO need to play games for work sometimes, but I would not call it “fun.” Playing games for work is totally different from playing games for personal enjoyment, and it can get extremely repetitive and even frustrating (especially if the game is early in development). Besides, playing games is like 5% of my job (probably less, now that I’m a manager).
Likewise, when you are playing games with kids as a professional, they’re for a specific purpose. You will probably enjoy it! But you may not call it “fun” in the sense of something you do to pass the time yourself. And yes, the children won’t always like speech therapy! Sometimes they get pulled out of class to do it, but maybe they get teased for it or they simply miss and want to be with their friends. Maybe they hit a low point - either in speech or in school or at home - and have a regression, or are otherwise struggling. Everyone has low points at work. That doesn’t mean you won’t still enjoy it - I really enjoy helping out my team members when they are struggling (although of course I don’t love that they struggle!)
