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12/02/2026

Save This Activity | Visual Memory Code Breaker 🍉

Try this game to work on visual processing, attention, and short-term memory skills.

One person (the “code dealer”) arranges objects into a pattern behind a screen. When the screen lifts, the other person looks at the pattern, then recreates it from memory.

Make it harder by reducing how long the pattern is visible!

This is a fun way to build skills that support classroom learning, following instructions, and everyday independence.

09/02/2026

Save This Activity | Swing Colour Sorting ✨

Try this activity to support visual-vestibular processing, core and upper body strength, and colour matching skills.

To increase the challenge, add a cognitive layer by introducing colour sequences (e.g. red, then blue) for your child to follow.

04/02/2026

Save This Activity | Object Recognition 🍋

This activity supports:
• Visual discrimination
• Object recognition
• Processing speed & reaction time
• Listening and attention skills

Play-based activities like this help build the foundations for everyday skills like classroom learning, following instructions, and items recognition.

02/02/2026

Save This Activity | Colour Trap 🌈

Work on colour recognition and reaction time with his fun game that can be easily replicated at home!

28/01/2026

Save This Activity: Running Technique 🏃‍♂️

Physio Alexa demonstrates a targeted drill to support a very common presentation we see in clinic - an “egg-beater” running pattern.

This pattern is often linked to:
• reduced hip and knee extension
• excessive hip abduction during the swing phase

By lifting the leg into an “A-position” and forcefully driving it back to kick a beanbag between cones, this activity helps:
• improve hip flexion control
• coordinate hip and knee extension
• encourage a more efficient, sagittal-plane running pattern

Over time, this can reduce leg flicking and improve overall running mechanics.

Have questions about running technique? 👇

27/01/2026

Save This Activity: Colour-Coded Core Challenge 🌈

Sitting on a bosu instantly challenges balance and postural control. Adding the beanbag foot hold against the wall keeps the core engaged the entire time. As the beanbags are sorted into matching coloured buckets behind, the child must recline with control, activating deep core muscles throughout the movement.

To progress the task, introduce using the opposite arm to place the beanbags in the buckets, encouraging trunk rotation and targeting the obliques more.

What other activity ideas would you like to see?

26/01/2026

This is one of the most misunderstood playground experiences.

The vestibular system helps the brain process movement, balance, and changes in head position.

It plays a key role in helping the body feel safe while moving through space.

For some children, vestibular information is harder to organise. When that happens, movement such as swinging, climbing, spinning, or having feet leave the ground can feel unpredictable or overwhelming to the nervous system.

This is why some children:
• avoid swings or slides
• become distressed when lifted or tipped backwards
• prefer keeping their feet firmly on the ground
• appear cautious on playground equipment

These responses aren’t choices or motivation-based. They’re protective responses from a nervous system working harder to maintain regulation.

Avoidance is information.

Supporting vestibular processing isn’t about forcing exposure or “pushing through.” It’s about graded, predictable movement experiences that help the brain build tolerance and trust in movement over time.

Vestibular differences exist on a spectrum, and many children fall well within typical development.

Understanding why movement feels hard changes how we respond.

Follow for education on common playground experiences - and the science behind them.

26/01/2026

Save This Activity: Breathwork Battle 🫁⚡️

Our OT’s are sharing a fun way to support emotional regulation through breathwork. Breathwork helps regulate the nervous system by slowing the heart rate, increasing oxygen to the brain, and activating the body’s calming (parasympathetic) response.

This can support kids with big feelings, impulsivity, anxiety, and difficulty settling their bodies.

By turning breathing into a game, kids are more likely to stay engaged and regulation becomes something they want to do, not something they’re told to do.

Important note: This activity is best suited for kids who enjoy a bit of friendly competition or benefit from peer motivation.

If your child finds competition overwhelming, a calmer 1:1 breathing activity may be a better fit. Save it for your regulation toolkit 💛

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25/01/2026

Attention isn’t just a cognitive skill - it’s a physiological one.

For many children, movement regulates the nervous system. And when the body is regulated, the brain can attend to tasks more effectively.

That’s why some children focus better when they’re moving, fidgeting, or changing positions - not despite it, but because of it.

Expecting stillness before regulation can actually:
• reduce attention
• increase fatigue
• and lead to disengagement

From a neurodevelopmental perspective, movement provides essential sensory input for alertness, body awareness, and sustained engagement.

This doesn’t mean children don’t need structure. It means flexible, movement-inclusive environments often support learning better than “sit still” ever could.

Different children need different levels of movement to stay regulated and attentive.

Comment below👇🏼 What’s one movement strategy that’s been a game-changer for your kiddos?

(Parents, teachers & therapists - save this for later 👀)

25/01/2026

Save this Activity: Ring Target Shot 🏀

A simple setup that targets core strength, hand eye coordination and ball skills.

Progress it by lifting one or both legs to challenge the core more.

23/01/2026

Save this Activity: Sheet Slide 💪

Physio Huss is showing how you can turn something as simple as a bed sheet + tiled floor into a fun and effective at-home strengthening activity!

This activity works on:
✔️ upper limb strength
✔️ shoulder stability
✔️ grip strength
✔️ progress it to a core strengthening activity by gently lifting your child’s head or legs off the ground while they “climb” the sheet.

There are so many ways to target strength in the home environment!

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19/01/2026

Save this Activity: Cannonball Kicks 💥

This clinic favourite helps build:
✔️ core strength
✔️ coordination
✔️ body awareness
✔️ visual tracking

To level it up with imaginative play, try pretending you’re:
🚀 blasting a rocket back into space
🏴‍☠️ kicking a cannonball off your pirate ship
⚽ scoring the winning goal in a World Cup final

Perfect for clinic sessions or at-home play, even get the siblings involved!

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