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Save This Activity | Hand-Eye Coordination

✨ Level 1: Throw through a moving target on a flat surface
✨ Level 2: Add a bosu, cushion or uneven surface for an extra balance challenge
✨ Level 3: Throw while sitting on a swing
✨ Level 4: High kneeling on a swing for advanced core + coordination work

Activities like this can help support:
✔️ Hand-eye coordination
✔️ Balance + postural control
✔️ Bilateral coordination
✔️ Motor planning
✔️ Core strength

Save this one to try at home or in your sessions 👏

Save This Activity | Number Game 🎲

Try this fun game to work on
- Number recognition
- Visual Perception

Save This Activity | Cannonball Kicks 💥

Cannonball kicks are great for building core strength + hip flexor strength.

Progress the activity by:
- Removing the elbow prop
- Bringing the head up into a crunch position

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Save This Activity | Scooterboard Rope Pull ✨

This simple setup is a fun, engaging way to build:�- Core strength�- Upper body strength�- Bilateral coordination (using both sides of the body together)

✨ To progress the activity:�Add pegs onto the rope for your child to remove as they move, incorporating fine motor skills and increased motor planning.

✨ Level it up again:�Use coloured pegs and give instructions like “only collect the pink pegs” to challenge attention, processing, and following directions.

Our EveryKid OTs help support the development of strength, coordination, and motor planning through personalised, play-based therapy.

👉 We currently have OT appointments available - book online via the link in our bio

Save This Activity | Night Time Regulation

Incorporating deep pressure and proprioceptive activities before bed can help signal to the nervous system that it’s time to slow down and prepare for rest.

Some examples:
1. Row The Boat
2. Blanket Roll Up
3. Gym Ball Squish
4. Joint Compressions
5. Pillow Crashes

Save this for tonight ✨

Save This Activity | Jumping Tips (Part 1) ⭐️

By lying on a scooter board with their feet against the wall, kids practise pushing away from the wall, helping them learn the explosive, plyometric motion used when jumping.

Because the movement happens in a supported position, it provides extra stability and control while they develop the coordination needed for jumping.

Who this is for:
– Kids whose feet aren’t quite leaving the ground yet
– Kids still developing the strength and coordination for jumping

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explain the next stage of learning to jump! 🙌🏼

Save This Activity | Swing & Spot ⭐️

Kids pull themselves up using the rope while sitting on the round swing to reach a game (we used Spot It! here). Holding the position while they play, helps develop arm and core strength as well as endurance.

How to progress it:
- Start in a heel sit�- Progress to tall kneeling�- Try it on the tummy to target the trunk extensors

This activity also works on visual vestibular skills. Because the swing is moving, their brain has to coordinate what their eyes see with how their body is moving, helping improve body awareness and visual tracking.

Introducing a new series: Activity Swaps For Kids ⚡️

This series shows how you can turn traditional exercises into fun activities to help keep kids engaged.

~ Instead of “Russian Twists” ➡️ Do “Bowling Twists”

~ Instead of “Calf Raises” ➡️ Do “Squigz Raises”

~ Instead of “Seated Knee Tucks” ➡️ Do “Cannonball Kicks”

~ Instead of “Single Leg Balance” ➡️ Do “Beanbag Balance”

What other activity swaps would you like to see?
Comment below ⭐️

Save This Activity | Balance Toys 🐘

These are 3 of our favourite go-to toys in the clinic to practise balance in a fun, motivating way.

When balance becomes a game, children are often more engaged, which means more repetition and more opportunities to build skills.

To progress the challenge, place something slightly unstable under the stance foot (like a foam mat or cushion) to increase the demand.

Just a few core words can open up so many opportunities to communicate - during play, turn taking, asking for help, requesting more, or sharing enjoyment.

In this game alone we modelled:
• Help
• Want more
• Go in
• I go
• Stop
• I like

When AAC is modelled naturally during fun, motivating activities, children can see how powerful communication can be.⭐