Kapiti Neuro Therapy Corinne Allan

30/10/2025

28/10/2025

🖐️✨ The Benefits of Sensory Play! 🎨🧩

Sensory play is more than just fun, it’s a powerful foundation for learning and development! 🌈
From exploring textures in nature-based art to engaging all five senses in creative play, sensory experiences help children:

🌿 Build fine and gross motor skills
🎨 Boost creativity and imagination
💬 Strengthen communication and social skills
🧠 Support emotional regulation and memory

At Kapiti Neurotherapy, we integrate sensory play into our creative therapies to help children grow, connect, and thrive, one joyful experience at a time. 💫

Discover more at 👉 www.neurotherapy.nz

26/10/2025

Nature-based art is a powerful tool for early development, blending sensory exploration with creativity and curiosity.

✨ How to Support Play-Based Learning:

Offer Variety: Provide natural textures — smooth stones, bumpy bark, soft moss — to engage fine motor skills in new ways.

Encourage Freedom: Skip the step-by-step instructions. Let children follow their curiosity and explore their own ideas.

Celebrate Process Over Product: Focus on joy and discovery rather than perfection. Every creation is meaningful when made through play.

🖐️ Try This:
Collect leaves, petals, or ferns and place them under a sheet of paper.
Let children gently rub crayons, chalk, or pastels over the top — revealing the delicate patterns of nature.

💡 Extend the Learning:
Ask questions like “Which leaf makes the clearest print?” or “What shapes do you notice?”
You can even explore mud rubbings or natural dyes for a full sensory art experience.

Through these hands-on moments, children strengthen their fine motor skills, connect with nature, and learn to see the world with wonder. 🌸

22/10/2025

At Kapiti Neurotherapy, we believe there’s hope after diagnosis.
We help people reconnect, heal, and thrive through creative, non-medical therapies that stimulate the brain and support emotional wellbeing.

Using art, mindfulness, neurographic drawing, colour meditation, movement, and sensory play, we help build new neural pathways, empowering individuals to overcome trauma and challenges to become the best version of themselves.

✨ Inclusive. Holistic. Client-centred. ✨
Discover how we can support your journey at 👉 www.neurotherapy.nz

21/10/2025

It’s not about making a perfect artwork, it’s about the sensory experience of touching, collecting, and creating with natural elements.

These activities nurture creativity, curiosity, and a deeper connection with the environment.

✨ Tactile & Process Art Ideas:

Mud Sculpting: Mix soil and water into soft mud, sculpt, or stamp textures using pinecones and shells.

Nature Collage: Gather leaves, petals, and twigs to explore shapes and textures on paper.

Sensory Bags: Seal small nature treasures like flowers or leaves in plastic bags for tactile play.

Natural Paints: Crush petals or mix dirt and water to make earthy paint.

🎨 Visual & Collection-Based Ideas:

Leaf & Bark Rubbings: Reveal hidden patterns with crayons and paper.

Flower Pressing: Create lasting art with pressed flowers and leaves.

Sensory Bottles: Fill bottles with pebbles, petals, and leaves for a calming visual tool.

Nature Bracelets: Wrap sticky tape around a wrist and collect tiny nature treasures.

Nature Walk Collections: Gather natural materials to use in future creations.

When children engage in these kinds of creative, sensory experiences, they’re not just making art — they’re developing mindfulness, focus, and emotional regulation through play.

15/10/2025

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14/10/2025

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12/10/2025

🌿 Leaf & Bark Rubbings – Easy Nature Art for Kids 🌿

Sometimes the simplest activities open up the most wonder. Leaf and bark rubbings are a classic way to turn the textures of nature into art.

✨ How to do it:

Take a walk outside and gather a few leaves, or simply find a tree trunk.

Place a sheet of paper over the leaf or bark.

Use crayons or pencils to gently rub across the surface.

Watch the hidden patterns appear!

This activity is calming, creative, and encourages children to really notice the details of the natural world around them. It’s a mindful way to combine play, sensory exploration, and creativity in one easy step.

💡 Bonus: Children can create a whole “nature texture book” by collecting rubbings from different plants and trees.

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09/10/2025

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07/10/2025

Nature-based art is all about using natural materials to create; like mud, leaves, stones, petals, twigs. But it’s more than just ‘making things.’

✨ It’s about the process, not the product.

Children explore textures, colours and shapes while developing fine motor skills, creativity, and a deeper connection with the environment.

Examples include:

🌱 Mud sculpting
🍂 Leaf rubbings
🌸 Flower pressing
💧 Sensory bottles

Every squish of mud, every pressed petal or every crayon rubbing is an invitation to slow down, play, and discover.

Would you give this a go with your kids? Which activity would they love most?