Bilateral Skills

Bilateral skills refer to a child's ability to use two hands together. Bilateral skills are necessary to develop a child's ability to cross his/her mid-line, and also facilitate hand dominance. The activities below assist in this process.
Avalanche Fruit Stand -

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.

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Buddy Lacing Board -
$46.95(inc.GST)

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

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Build and Roll - BuildRoll
$65.95(inc.GST)

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.

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Camelot Junior - LL1611
$38.95(inc.GST)
Rescue the princess, build a stairway to get them back together? With simple puzzles for beginning, to complex puzzles that is designed to develop spatial reasoning abilities. Includes 11 durable wooden pieces, and a full-colour, illustrated booklet featuring 48 multi-level puzzle challenges. Ages 4-8 yrs
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Castle Logix - CL
$34.90(inc.GST)
An excellent visual motor activity for 3-7 year olds. Comes with book of 48 multi-level challenges with the solution on the back of each page.
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Counting Links - B78931
$26.50(inc.GST)
Great for in-hand manipulation skills. A great 'basic' item to have in your cupboard. 100 links in four bright colours, each 4cm x 2cm, in a handy storage container.
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Dress up Monkey - DrMonk
$44.95(inc.GST)

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.

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Hammer and nails - FMCR2099
$31.95(inc.GST)

A great version of the old hammer and nails activity. Players spin the dial and take a piece to create the image on their playing card. Great for recognising different shapes and sizes. Develops eye hand coordination, bilateral hand skills and visual perception. Ages 4 - 8

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Hands Up - Mhu4
$93.50(inc.GST)

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.

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Lace-it Alphabet & Lace-it Numbers -
Alphabet cards- Set of 3 different durable plastic cards each measuring 25 x 25cm. A fun activity to develop sensory motor skills while consolidating the alphabet. 

Number cards - Children thread the laces from hole to hole by following the numbers. 4 different cards measuring 22 x 22 cm with brightly coloured laces.

Alphabet $ 8.95
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Numbers $ 7.95
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Lacing Copy Cards - LCC1
$21.95(inc.GST)

Set of 12 heavy duty cards, 18x22cm each, and including 24 laces and activity sheets. Combines visual motor integration, bilateral coordination and fine motor control.

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Moringa - MORNG
$32.95(inc.GST)
To help develop fine motor skills, this threading game is perfect for little hands. Includes 1 tree, birds, fox, squirrel, bush, apples, butterflies, leaves, ribbons and wooden balls, 36 pieces in total. Tree measures 23 x 19cm. For 3 years plus.
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My First Lacing -
$16.95(inc.GST)
Great introduction to lacing shapes. Popular farm animals, set of four. 5 colourful laces. Soft oversized shapes are fun and easy to hold in little hands.
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My First Ruler - FM1281
$14.00(inc.GST)
The handle provides a fun, sturdy way to help children learn to coordinate their two hands effectively to rule straight lines. The handle is either a crocodile or a caterpillar. These rulers are useful for all kids, not just those with motor skill difficulties.
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Plastic Scooterboards -
Sturdy moulded plastic scooterboards available in a choice of six colours. Please email to let us know if you would like blue, red, orange, yellow, purple, or green. Develop muscle tone, postual control, and bilateral coordination. Large scooterboards are 40cm square, small are 30cm square, and they take a maximum weight of 80kg.
Small Scooterboard $ 26.50
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Large Scooterboard $ 39.95
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Scooterboard connectors $ 7.95
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Ring Ribbon -
$8.95(inc.GST)

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

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Skillbuilders Handwriting Kit - SHWK
$165.00(inc.GST)

Skillbuilders Handwriting Kit is designed for the student commencing prewriting skills and learning letter formations. The activities included are fun and use 'different' ways to learn pencil control, establish correct movement patterns, and improve posture and pencil grip. The kit is designed for 2-3 students, however it can be modified to suit a small handwriting group of 4-5 children. Skillbuilders Handwriting Kit is designed by Occupational Therapists. It includes : 

  • instructions and tips on activities to engage students in when using the kit,
  • information on pencil grasps in children,
  • perspex angled writing board,
  • theraputty with activity suggestions,
  • wikki stix and instruction book,
  • plastic tray and shaving cream, 
  • upper and lower case letter stencils,
  • a range of lead pencils,
  • a trial pack of pencil grips,
  • a handiwriter,
  • coloured lined paper pads to assist with letter sizing, and
  • magnetic wand and magnetic discs. 

The Handwriting Kit is contained in a durable and practical box. The saving is over $50 on the value of all the products, with the added bonus of all the information and activity suggestions.

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Speedy Fingers - LEM.9453
$22.95(inc.GST)

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.

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Stencils - Upper and Lower case -
Durable plastic card sets measuring approximately10 x 7cm each. Use either the stencil or the 'pop-out' piece. 
Upper case $ 14.50
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Lower case $ 14.50
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The Helpful Shoelace - FMB874
$25.50(inc.GST)
A complete threading, tying, and lacing story book that helps children master fine motor and self care skills.
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Veggie slice and count - FMET2059
$30.50(inc.GST)
Excellent quality set of wooden vegetables connected with Velcro. Comes with knife so you can cut them up. Great for bilateral activity for younger children. 
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Wikki Stix Fun Sets -

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.

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