We know how to help picky eaters learn to eat new foods, decrease mealtime stress, and what foods to give picky eaters! Get our top 9 tips and 25 Picky Eater Meal Ideas in a free printable by clicking below.
This is the place for ALL things sensory: sensory processing, sensory diet, sensory activities, sensory toys, and more, because as OT’s, sensory is our thing! Get started by grabbing our printable list of 21 sensory red flags you might be missing.
It’s alarming when your baby refuses or has trouble chewing their food. They may spit it out, gag, or refuse to even try. You need a plan! How about 10 simple steps to teach your baby how to eat table foods.
Get detailed guides about various developmental skills for toddlers, preschoolers, and school aged kids. Developmental skills include fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, executive functioning, and more. Basically, developmental skills are any skills or milestones that kids need to reach their full development and learn!
20 fun and creative visual sensory activities your child will love, plus why visual sensory processing is important, and how to help with visual sensory difficulties in kids. This post contains affiliate links. See our full disclosure. Close your eyes and think of your most vivid memory… is it a beautiful tropical vacation you went on? The birth or first steps of your child? The ability to recall these images so readily is because of your visual...
Your kids will love these gross motor skill activities, for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten or school aged. Plus, benefits of gross motor activities. Tons of ideas to try for large motor! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Take even a short look at the kinds of things the average kid is into, and you will quickly see how important physical movement and physical activities are for development. Playgrounds, climbing, running,...
Obstacle course ideas for all ages, indoors or outdoors with little to no prep. Plus learn obstacle course benefits and get a list of activities to make your own! Climbing, crashing, swinging, crawling… There’s a reason most kids love movements like these from a young age and will actively seek them out. You can combine all these activities by setting up an easy, low prep obstacle course! As an occupational therapist and mom it is one of...
Learn 10 easy spatial awareness activities that improve this important skill that can affect handwriting, hand eye coordination, clumsiness, and more… Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. From infancy, babies start learning and building skills that will grow through childhood and take them into adolescence and then adulthood. Many of these developmental milestones, from first steps, first bike rides without training...
How to support your school aged child to help them print easier, neater, faster and with less frustrations and freak-outs! When it takes an hour for your child to write one or two sentences, and you’ve used all your energy encouraging, and even bribing , and they still refuse to write! When your child has written a sentence and it is so messy and the letters are all over and completely disorganized it can be frustrating and discouraging. You and your child...
Help kid’s pencil grasp and handwriting with the 7 best pencil grips that are perfect for school and home. Learn which pencil grip is the best one for your kid! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. When I started working with kids as an occupational therapist around 2004, pencil grips weren’t being used as often as they were needed. They were hard to come by, having to order them out of specialty therapy...
Occupational therapists can help preschoolers with 7 different areas of development. Find out the 20 signs that your child might need OT in the preschool years… How are things going at preschool? Do you have a 3, 4 or 5 year-old at home? Do you know if your child is ready for kindergarten? The preschool years are an especially exciting time for your child to develop many new and wonderful abilities. The years between toddler...
Core exercises help kids gain strength for fine motor activities. Core strength starts to develop in babies! The strength and stability continues to develop as a child grows through toddler, preschool, and school-age years. Many times as an occupational therapist, I’d have a new child assigned to my caseload for fine motor skills. They might be having a hard time using scissors, feeding themselves, coloring, or writing with letters or shapes. ...
Wonder if your kid is a righty or lefty? Learn when your child should have clear hand dominance and why it matters. Plus, easy activities to help your child establish hand dominance. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. I met my little friend Adam* when he had just turned 6. He was in kindergarten and his family and teachers were worried about his cutting, handwriting, and eating. The problem was that Adam switched hands every...
Get your kids ready to go back to school with these fun fine motor activities that will have your child’s hands ready for writing and cutting! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Summer is a great time to experience new things. But it’s also a great time to “sneak” in activities that will help your kids develop the fine motor skills they’ll need for the school year. Today, my friend and fellow OT...
Get inspired, plan your meals, or just copy the done for you meal ideas with this awesome printable for toddlers and babies!
