Holiday Gift Guide 2024
Sensory Balance Beam
Why we love it:
This balance beam is great for improving a child’s balance, strength, and coordination. You can create endless combinations with the design of interlocking beams and sensory stone sections. This balance beam comes with 5 sensory stepping stones that allow for tactile play. The bright colors catch children’s attention while also facilitating improved gross motor skills through play!
Maze Sensory Toy
Why we love it:
Your child will love navigating through these mazes! It enhances sensory and cognitive skills and promotes concentration. This is perfect for car trips or to use while waiting in a restaurant!
Puzzle Peg
Why we love it:
This toy is great because you can vary the difficulty level depending on the child’s age. It works on crossing midline, bilateral coordination, visual motor/perception, reasoning and problem solving.
Hopscotch Rug
Why we love it:
The hopscotch rug is a great way to work on gross motor and coordination with your child. It is great for strengthening, working on single leg and double leg hopping and sequencing.
Balloon Pump Launcher
Why we love it:
This balloon car toy is great for working on modeling and labeling different colors, animals, types of cars, as well as working on making requests for “more”, “help” and “all done”. You can model vocabulary such as, “up, up, up” as you pump it, then using the carrier phrase “Ready, set…” and pausing to allow the child to say “go”. This can also work on coordination by using one foot to pump up the balloon, while balancing on one leg!
Mystery Alphabet Box
Why we love it:
This is a fun toy for ages three and up. It is great for naming everyday objects, turn-taking, phonemic awareness, and requesting!
Pea pod Chair
Why we love it:
Pea pod chairs can help individuals with sensory processing difficulties, anxiety, and stress by providing a sense of security and calming with the deep pressure it provides. This chair can help improve regulation, attention, sleep, and even coordination and body awareness!
Sorting Surprise Pirate Treasure
Why we love it:
This toy is a fun way to work on sorting colors and shapes to match the correct box! Children also get to use a key while working on turning it to open the box as well as work on their in-hand manipulation skills to place the coins into the slot on the top!
Dinosaur Escape Game
Why we love it:
This is a great toy for any dino-lover! This is a cooperative game where all players are on the same team and help the dinosaurs escape from the volcano. This is good for building team player skills, working on memory, and turn-taking.
All Better Book
This book is a fan favorite for kids of all ages! You have to help the hurt animals by putting bandaids on them. This book includes a lot of repetition so it’s great for building vocabulary, phrases, and following directions.
Critter Clinic
Why we love it:
This toy encourages use of a variety of receptive and expressive language skills such as identifying, matching, problem solving, labeling, and more! Hide fun toys inside for a new surprise every time!
Busy Board
Why we love it:
This board builds practical life skills, enhances fine motor skills, and allows kids to develop basic skills while playing. This board works for toddlers as a learning toy and it can develop a variety of abilities such as problem solving skills, fine motor skills, creative thinking and problem solving!
Robotics Toy
Why we love it:
This STEM toy is educational and fun! You collect and build 12 toys and our clients enjoy filling the empty capsules with fun treats. Our therapists like to use this for sequencing and following directions!
Spin Again
This is such a fun and engaging toy! Children love to place the discs on the pole and watch it spin all of the way down! This is a great toy to work on visual-motor skills as well as coordination in order to place the disc onto the pole!
Magic Rail Sensory Toy
Why we love it:
This toy is relaxing and fun, all in one! It stimulates thinking and hand eye coordination and creates soothing effects that help inhibit excessive activity. Our therapists enjoy having these on hands to help with difficult transitions and as a fun toy to explore on a sensory break!