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A programme for 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 year olds. Designed by Speech Pathologists, this resource highlights the auditory, oral production and the phonic basis of the alphabet. Flash cards provide a body action to be incorporated into learning the alphabet. The pack consists of 26 A4 double sided flash cards and 26 small single sound flash cards. This pack is in cursive font.

A programme for 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 year olds. Designed by Speech Pathologists, this resource highlights the auditory, the oral production and the phonic basis of the alphabet. Flash cards provide a body action to be incorporated into the early alphabet learning process. The pack consists of 26 A4 double sided flash cards and 26 small single sound flash cards. Foundation Font.

Great game to promote fine motor and large arm skills. Hook your fish and place them on your angling stand. Play according to the rules or your own way. Includes 4 rods, 4 angling stands and 12 fish. Suitable for 1 - 4 players.

Animal Lap Bag, filled with stainless steel pellets, ensuring these are machine washable. Comes in a choice of designs of dog, cat or duck. Weight of 2 kg 

Wheat filled 2kg weighted animal lap bags, designed in either cat, dog or duck designs. Ears and leg pieces make easy fidget parts to the lap cushion.

Spin the wheel, then use jumbo tweezers to pick up fun little pieces of colourful plastic fruit. Fun for building finger grasps and eye-hand coordination. Great for sorting, patterning, placing and tong activities. Includes 40 pieces of fruit, 2 jumbo tweezers and a spinner. Ages 3 years up.

The Bilibo is an exciting new product which is winning many awards. Children love to explore the Bilibo. They can sit in it, on it, and under it. It can be a hat, a turtle shell, a basket to carry things in, a rocking chair, and anything else they can imagine. A simple and versatile piece of equipment.

Boing light balls change colour with a squeeze of the hand. Covered in a rubber cover. They change from 3 light modes (constant colour, slow phase, fast phase) and range in colour sequences. Move to the next colour by squeezing the ball. These are on a lanyard for wearing around your neck.

Great for visually seeking children.

Great fiddly toy or brain challenge! Bright coloured elastic strings that can be pulled and interchanged. All strings can be interchanged with each other without creating a knot. 

 Set of 5 squeeze bubble blowers in animal shapes (pets) along with a bubble tray and 250ml bubble mix. Hand strength activity with immediate visual attraction. 

Bubber feels light and fluffy, it even floats on water. Great for sensory play. Never dries out and doesnt leave residue. Even floats on water!

Contains 1 X wooden butterfly, 24 wooden balls, 40 felt discs, 10 felt hearts, 4 wooden discs and 8 wooden cubes, Design to promote as much lacing as is possible. Ages 4 years up

Design and build your own construction with wooden tunnels and marbles. Great bilateral activity. Comes with 4 marbles plus instructions. Measures 58cm X 44cm, for ages 4 years plus.

One of the Coko plates collection. This version includes the diagraphs for word building eg: 'sh', 'ch', 'th' etc. All in foundation script. CD and teachers notes are included. See other parts of the collection: base plate, lowercase letters, vowel sounds and word families.

Popular tool to assist children with early phonetic skills to write. Letters are clearly seen and spaced to make it easy for children to sound out words and then copy what they have made. Look for the coko base plates, sold seperately, and the diagraphs, vowel sounds and word families.

Cubeo is an innovative tool to assist children to organise themselves for the start of the school day. The cubeo attaches to their school bag. Includes over 80 resuable stickers with a range of essential items, school and extra curricular activities. Essential items such as lunchbox and water bottle appear on the front window. The drop down cards ensure children remember the things they need on specific days of the week. The stickers are reusable and can be changed from term to term.

Double sided photocopiable work cards. Graded from pre-scissor skills to cutting out circles. Guidelines, exercises, and activities for each skill level. Devloped by paediatric Occupational therapists. All exercises tried and tested in the classroom.

Learn to dress MONKEY is 22 " long, a soft, plush toy. Includes 11 dress up activities including: snap on straps, buttons, hook and loop, as well as a zipper. He has real socks and lace up sneakers. His shirt and overalls can be removed. Lovely to increase independence and fine motor skills.

The Evo Pen is an ergonomically shaped pen that provides children with an alternative pen grip to relieve pain/fatigue when writing. People suffering from arthritis also find this pen to assist with pen control

 Encourage fun and creativity with serving food for your child. Ceramic plate with face features to allow children to seperate food groups and create a fun picture. 

Dome-shaped pods made from pliable moulded plastic. Pressure can be adjusted and the level of difficulty can also be adjusted by using the pods flat-side down or up. Children develop dynamic balance, body awareness, coordination and motor planning skills. $6.50 each.

A teachers manual designed by Occupational Therapists, provides clear information on the norms of fine and gross motor skill development and current information regarding dominance, grasps, in-hand manipulation and hand strength. This guide also outlines 4 year old fine motor cutting, colouring, drawing, playdough and pre-writing activities. Gross motor, ball, balance, eye tracking and body control activities.

Skillbuilders is an exclusive distributor of the HowdaHug seats in Australia. The HowdaHug seats have been around for a long time for adults, but are newly available to children. They're designed as a recreational/camping chair which rolls up easily for storage. However, they are a fantastic option for kids at mat time! Movement seekers can get that bit of vestibular input they need by rocking. Extra proprioception is provided by the way the seat 'hugs' the body. The HowdaHug is also a very practical way to provide postural support to the child with low muscle tone. The Howdahug seat is also available in a Petite version for children 3 - 5 years. (See Petite Howdahug)

The howdahugs are popular in schools particularly for children with SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder), Autism spectrum disorders and Attention Deficit Disorder. 

 Colour match to the picture cards, or create your own pictures. Lovely easy game for toddlers to learn their colours. 

The Kids Companion chewelry offers another form of safe chewing for children who may require oral regulation within their day. The chewable hearts come on an 18 " lanyard, in a range of colours. Please let us know if you require a boys or girls colour, by seperate email.

Other products to note are the Kids Companion in chewable circles and the Kids Companion Fidget clips.

The Kids Companion Fidget clip provides another option for children requiring oral regulation during their day. The clip attaches to clothing or pockets and holds either a circle or heart piece for safe chewing. See also the Kids Companion on the necklace either is a circle or heart.

Game encouraging moving the marble balls within the maze to the animals. Game completely enclosed so no pieces can be removed. Lovely fine motor, bilateral and motor planning game.

Stainless steel lap bag is machine washable.

Stainless Steel Lap Bag, machine washable.

 Easy to use PLD resource, outlines how to commence instructing letter formation in an early childhood manner. Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists have designed this resource. Eg: instructions include 'ask students to form the letters in the air with eyes open/closed' or adult says 'put your pencil on the starting dot and write the letter 's' while staying on the grey path. Change the colour of your pencil and repeat'. 

PLD resource book outlines how to commence instructing letter formation in an early childhood manner. Developed by Occupational and Speech Pathologists. Examples: ask students to form the letters in the air with eyes open or eyes closed. 

Adult says : 'Put your pencil on the starting dot and write the letter 's' while staying on the grey path. Change the colour of your pencil and repeat.'

An audio game for children strong with auditory skills. Helps children with multiplication tables. Encourages children to listen attentively and match different multiplication puzzles to corresponding pictures. Times tables upto 12. Includes a CD. Ages 7 years and up.

Fantastic drawing tool for little hands, to promote a lovely tripod grasp. Allows small fingers to colour in large, wide strokes. Designed to strengthen the tripod grasp muscles, preparing the fingers and hands for pen and pencil use. Made with soy bean wax. Velvet bag comes with 16 colours.

Ideal for children who have stronger auditory skills for learning versus visual skills. Unique and challenging game that encourages children to listen attentively and match different sounds to corresponding pictures. Helps develop listening, audiotry sequencing, concentration and visual discrimination.

Memory game with fun and interesting characters to remember.

The Miracle Belt  is a product new to Australia. It provides children with calming deep pressure sensory input in the form of a weighted belt. Please follow the following link for more information www.miraclebelt.com. The adult version is named the Sensory Belt. It is exactly the same design, the only difference being the size. Miracle belts are adjustable to fit waist ranges as follows:

MB202 - 40 - 65cm

MB303 - 45 - 70cm

SB404 - 65 - 90cm

A great magnetic fishing game encouraging eye hand coordination and fine motor skill.

Simple wooden jigsaw to encourage visual perceptual and problem solving skills

 These clever writing tools tactilely and visually cue children on how much space to leave between letters and words when writing. They also feature a 'tracking window' for reading that accentuates black print. The Blue finger spacers are designed from Preschool to Year 2. The green ones are for older children. 

 Comfort and the natural contours of the hand inspired the design of this new pen. Made with special coating that feels like soft silk....finger tension melts away as the natural weight of ones hand holds the pen in place, no tight gripping required. Pen includes two black refills. Also comes in a pencil Pen Again Pencil. 

 The Pen Again Pencil is designed for small hands. This innovative new pencil has the same ergonomic design as the Pen Again. Comes with a 2mm lead that never needs re-sharpening. The wishbone shape design naturally promotes an efficient tripod grasp. Non refillable. Fun colours. 

The petite howdahug is the smaller version of the Howdahug seat for children aged 3 -5 years and upto 40lb weight. Fantastic seat for the movement seeking child, particularly at mat time. For further information see Howdahug seats

Skillbuilders is an exclsuive distributor of the HowdaHug seats in Australia.

PLD resource developed by Speech Pathologists and Occupational Therapists. Introduces comprehensive pre-handwriting programme with activities targetting: pencil grasp, paper position, posture and rehearsal of pre-writing patterns. Occulomotor and visual perceptual tasks are also incorporated including visual memory, tracking and visual discrimination. 

We need seating options for working with little ones at 'big people' heights! This portable and easy solution enables parents and therapists to work with young children on focussed fine motor activity at a comfortable height. It holds a childs weight up to 14kg.

There are also all the added benefits of being able to have young children sitting with the rest of the family at the table, when at home or out for dinner, enhancing their social and eating skills.

Fantastic fine motor activity. Children follow a design card with their pens that are inserted with string. By pushing through the card the string becomes attached to form the pattern. Suitable for children 4 years and older.

This is a fun game that kids love. An excellent game promoting visual motor, tracking, grasping and motor planning skills. Tiny coloured balls are scattered on the table and players follow sequences on wooden pattern strips, collecting the balls with tubes that 'swoop' them up when the tubes are placed over the balls and pressed down. This game has small balls and should not be used for children under the age of 3.

Rhythm ribbons easily held on a ring. Great for crossing midline activities, motor planning and bilateral skills

Set of two sand timers each of 3 minutes duration. Children love to use these as a guide to 'get their work done'.

 Put Saucey Sam on the end of the tomatoe sauce bottle and have fun with the sauce

Soft gripped and comfortable Fiskars scissors for children. Reversed blades allow for cutting visibility for left handers. Ideal for ages 4 years upwards.

A see saw balance board made from durable plastic that will challenge and amuse children while developing co-ordination and balance skills. Children control the board to send the ball through the maze. Seesaw board measures 50cm X 23cm and 2 balls are included.  For 3 years plus.

Skillbuilders Fine motor Kit is designed to be used by students of preschool age or Year 1, requiring additional fine motor input. The kit can be used by 2-3 students, however, it can be modified to suit a small fine motor group of 4-5 children. The Skillbuilders Fine Motor Kit is designed by Occupational Therapists. It includes: Instructions and tips on activities to engage students in when using the kit, Pegboard and pegs, Theraputty and activity suggestions, Wikki Stix and instruction book, Link chain pieces, Wind up toys, Tricky Fingers, Magnetic wands and discs, Marble maze, Jumping frogs, Lace Copy cards with threads, zoo sticks, small threading beads and stress ball. The kit is contained in a durable plastic container.

Speedy Fingers is an excellent game for the development of : organization skills and the ability to replicate patterns, spatial perception, matching abilities, fine motor skills and agility. The balls are inside a sealed ball-holder and cannot escape. Each player has a Speedy Fingers card. Shake the Speedy Fingers ball holder and place it in the middle. The goal - to arrange all the coloured disks on the players board e-x-a-c-t-l-y as they appear in the ball holder.

An easy way to assist children visually to learn and spell basic words. Each set of words is illustrated with easily recognisable pictures to help young children learn 36 common 3 and 4 letter words and devlop first reading and spelling skills.

A word building activity. It includes a pack of 48 child related pictures and 80 letter cards that easily fit together. These cards can be used to make more than 500 words. Great tool to assist children to visually isolate sounds and syllables within words.

A board game designed to help children learn the spelling of 560 selected words, which makes upto 2/3 of the vocabulary of everyday language. Children are expected to spell the words correctly, race along the path on the board and score maximum marks.

Stretch Eze is a unique individual nylon lycra stretch band which can be used for resistance and stretch exercises. Great for sensory feedback as well as muscle strength. Available in small (lower primary), medium (upper primary) and tall.

A solid version of the chewy tubes but in a different design. The super chew has a bumpy stem that offers lots of tactile chewing experiences, to bite and chew. Closed handle makes it easy to grasp for little fingers. Other options for chewing inlcude the 'chewy tubes' and 'kids companions.'

Fantastic tower building game, really motivating for children to use their fine motor control to build the largest tower possible. Suitable for children ages 4 years plus. Includes 25 wooden bricks, 1 dice with colours and 1 dice with dots. For 2-4 players

 These clever writing tools tactilely and visually cue children on how much space to leave between letters and words when writing. They also feature a 'tracking window' for reading that accentuates black print. The Blue finger spacers are designed from Preschool to Year 2. The green ones are for older children. 

The weighted blanket provides children with calming, deep pressure sensory input. Many parents have found this to be an effective strategy to help their child settle to sleep. The weight is provided through evenly distributed pockets of stainless steel pellets, quilted into place. The quilts are available in a choice of 4 colours or you can send your child's current dooner cover. These blankets are machine washable.

Available in weights 2.0kg, 2.5kg. In larger weights required eg: 3kg, 4kg, 5 kg or 6kg please request by email and a quote will be provided.

Heavy items postage additional fee $4.50 included in price.

Weighted lap bags are a very practical way to provide children with calming deep pressure sensory input in the classroom environment. They can be used to help children maintain their concentration during mat time as well as at the desk for written work. These lap bags are filled with wheat or stainless steel and are made in cordoroy and have segregated sections to ensure even weight distribution. The staineless steel lap bags can be washed in the washing machine.Please send us an accompanying email when ordering to advise us of your colour choice - black, burgundy, royal blue, dark green, yellow, dark grey, or rust. Please advise if Qld customers would prefer their lap bags to be non-cordoroy.

Heavy weight postage fee $4.50 included in prices below.

A great fine motor fiddly toy. Made of brightly coloured wooden blocks with elastic threading. Make all sorts of wonderful designs

 Visual challenge, find how animals use camouflage for both protection and hunting. Age 4 years and up.

Match the features to the animals they belong to. Match up stripes, wings, tails, paws etc to find the right animal. Contains 28 look and match, 2 piece self-correcting puzzles. Ideal for 3-6 year olds.
 

Create a tropical fish mobile! Oceans of Fun includes: 48 Wikki Stix, 4 colorful fish to decorate, 2 dowels, 2 large ocean scenes to complete, a matching activity, a maze and interesting information on fish.

Dinosaur Fun has tracks and footprints to create, a maze, and a dinosaur scene.

There's a challenge to get the wurm through the apple which requires logic and problem solving skills. An additional bonus is this is an ideal fidget toy.