This is the spot to find all our strategies and foods for babies, specifically 0-12 month olds. Get started by checking out the baby won't take a bottle guide and how to transition baby to table foods.
Starting solid foods with your baby can be an exciting and nerve racking time. Here you’ll find the best practices for how to spoon feed, when to introduce baby food, and how to transition to table foods. Looking for food ideas? Grab our Mega List of Foods for Babies and Toddlers below!
If you want to support and encourage kids' overall developmental skills, you’re in the right place. You’ll find incredible guides here on core strength, fine motor skills, executive functioning skills, and lots more. Check it all out below!
From preschoolers to kindergartners all the way up through the elementary school aged years, this is the place to get all the strategies targeted towards school age kids! Check out our free meal plan for kids and how to help kids fall asleep!
Learn more about kids nutrition, especially as it pertains to picky eaters! Find tasty recipes, portion size recommendations, and even how to teach kids about nutrition.
We know why kids won’t eat, how to turn around picky eating, 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.
With every one of our picky eater and family friendly recipes, you’ll find simple strategies for helping kids learn to explore and enjoy them. Check out some of our faves like potato skins, crispy green beans, or our mega list of vegetable recipes!
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.
A sensory diet is all about meeting your child’s sensory needs to calm, regulate, and improve focus through specific sensory diet activities. Grab our free sensory diet template and list of sensory diet activities below!
Sensory toys can be amazing for encouraging any child’s development, but it's especially helpful for regulating kids with sensory issues. Figure out which sensory toys, like fidgets or a sensory swing are best for your child below.
As OT’s, we’ve worked with A LOT of babies and toddlers that won’t eat solids. Eating is a skill just like talking or walking, and some babies need more help. Snag our Learn to Eat Table Foods printable to get started!
In the first few years of life, babies and toddlers go through a lot of different feeding milestones, from learning to chew to drinking from a straw. Here at Your Kid’s Table, you’ll find detailed guides for each of the feeding milestones. Check them out below!
Here you will find all sorts of resources about feeding therapy, including feeding therapy strategies like food chaining. To get a printable of 20+ feeding therapy ideas and oral motor exercises, click below!
Our team is all occupational therapists, so here you will find incredible resources for and about pediatric occupational therapy. Some of our top picks to check out are spatial awareness activities, primitive reflex testing, and sensory integration!
We have eating and sensory strategies for teens too, and you can find them all here. Let us know if there’s a topic you’d like to see covered for teens!
We have toddler sensory activities, toddler recipes, toddler picky eating tips, and more toddler strategies all in this spot to help you encourage and support your toddlers development! Get our best meal ideas and a huge printable food list for toddlers below!
Get the help you need with our library of strategies to help kids progress in their development or overcome a challenge. Check out our specialties: sensory, picky eating, and babies learning to eat.
Sensory diets are a powerful tool to help kids with various sensory issues including sensory seeking, sensory sensitivities, and low registration. The key is figuring out what type of sensory needs a child has so that you can best support them. Learn how in our free workshop or get started with Everything You Need to Know About Sensory Processing!
22 awesome and easy fall sensory activities that are perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and kids! There are so many wonderful opportunities to explore new sensory experiences in this season of fall. I have said many times before that sensory play is more than just a sensory bin, although those are great, too. Kids are able to take in sounds, smells, sights, and even movement as forms of sensory input. In this post, I have...
Use sensory seeking activities to calm and organize sensory seeking behaviors in your “wild” child or toddler that seems to never stop moving. Would you describe your child as wild, rough, or dangerous on a regular basis? If so, those could be signs of sensory seeking behavior. Although there are a variety of reasons a child may consistently seem to have a lot of energy or participate in extreme behaviors, sensory seeking activities can help calm and...
Get 11 easy smell sensory activities, and learn how to help kids with smell sensitivities! Perfect for preschoolers, kindergartners, and kids with sensory issues/SPD. This post contains affiliate links. See our full disclosure. In Boulder, Colorado is the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory where you can take a tour to see how they process and package all of their assortment of teas. It might sound boring (unless you’re a tea enthusiast like me!)...
Over 80 amazing, simple proprioceptive activities for kids. Learn benefits of proprioceptive input to calm, focus, and alert. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. As an OT and mom, proprioceptive activities are my favorite type of sensory input because they can be used to help calm, focus, or even alert a child who is dysregulated. Proprioceptive input is that powerful and amazing! But, this isn’t a once size fits all...
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...
Discover over 45 vestibular activities that can calm, regulate, and improve attention in your child. Plus, get vestibular exercises for kids that seek or avoid vestibular input. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Vestibular input is incredibly powerful and can have amazing or surprising effects. Vestibular processing is nearly always at work in everything we do, arguably more than any other sensory system. Vestibular activities, when used...
40 plus easy sensory bin ideas that are perfect for home or school. And, get tips to encourage play and benefits of sensory bins. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Lots of sensory bin/box ideas are floating around in the blogosphere and pop up on Pinterest from time to time. As an occupational therapist, this is one play idea that I use very often, as most OT’s do, and I am kind of obsessed with them because of...
The ultimate guide to sensory diets that includes a sensory diet template PDF, powerful sensory diet examples, and 4 steps to make your own sensory diet today! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Are you hearing about a sensory diet for the first time? Wondering how to create a sensory diet for your child? While it may seem complicated, as an occupational therapist I’m here to break it all down into something that you understand, one step at...
Create a simple sensory area or corner in the classroom with 5 easy steps and 10+ sensory tools and equipment ideas for young children through older kids. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Having a sensory area in a classroom can help lots of students calm down, focus, and learn more easily. As an occupational therapist, I’ve helped teachers set up sensory corners in their classroom or at least incorporate some...
Discover when, why, and how to use sensory body socks to help kids calm and improve body awareness. Perfect for sensory seekers, check out this OT’s top picks. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Have a kid that’s always bouncing off the walls? Do they love to crash into everything? Maybe they’re clumsy? Then, a sensory body sock might be a great sensory activity to calm your child and even decrease their...
