
Resources & Articles
Read helpful resources for parents from our therapists and stay in touch with the latest news at Tilton’s Therapy for Tots.
Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
OT Animals
While you're outside, have some fun with these OT exercises. Therapists create some great gross motor exercise worksheets that target individual occupational therapy goals and incorporate unique learning styles.
Water Play!
Take advantage of being outside before it gets too hot!
Children love water play activities during hot weather, and many of them enhance gross motor skills.
Water Cup Racing
Get your summer started with this easy to set up game!
This activity focuses on auditory processing, gross motor skills, coordination, balance, motor planning, bilateral integration, visual perceptual skills, and hand and finger strength.
Father's Day Popsicle Craft
This activity works in visual motor integration to promote coloring in the lines. It also prompts creativity and the use of descriptive language skills to pick and identify what they want to add onto the picture to make it uniquely theirs!
Garden Grab Game
A Spring-Themed Movement & Matching Activity for Kids.
Encourage kids to move, match, and think while exploring a fun spring garden setting. This activity builds motor coordination, visual scanning, and early matching and categorization skills.
Phonics Fun
Phonics Fun is an interactive and educational activity that can enhance a child's speech and language skills, as well as their cognitive abilities while playing a fun game!
Easy Handprint Cup
Here's a fun and adorable keepsake activity whole family will enjoy making together and Mom will love forever! Make a salt dough handprint bowl for Mother's Day!
Chalk Ice Painting
Here's a great way to use the small pieces of sidewalk chalk you have leftover from your amazing obstacle course: create Chalk Ice to use over the next few days!
Sidewalk Obstacle Course
Since it's fitness and sports month, we found this great idea to create a Sidewalk Chalk Obstacle Course to keep your kids—and the neighborhood kids, too— entertained for hours! Enjoy!
Follow the Path Maze Pack
This fun pack of mazes can help children improve or work on visual motor integration, visual perceptual skills, and fine motor skills.
Story Stones
Play this fun and easy game to work on and improve language development, articulation, and listening skills. Find this activity and many others in our app!
Animal Walk Relay Race
This game is great for gross motor development! Find this game and so much more in our mobile app!
Mother's Day Flowerpot Activity
This activity is wonderful for material management, organizational skills, tracing, drawing, cutting, gluing and motor planning skills! This is a great way to discuss flowers, colors, and everything our amazing mothers do for us!
I Love You to Pieces Mother’s Day Craft
For Mother’s Day, kids can express themselves with this fun and creative craft to say “I love you to pieces!”
This activity uses components you may have at home along with our printable resources.
Sensory Car Wash
Did you know you can build your kids their own sensory car wash? Using simple supplies that are readily available, kids can play and engage their senses in a really fun way! This DIY craft is perfect for a hot day.
DIY Giant Plunk Game
Plunk! If you have ever played the classic game KerPlunk, you’ll enjoy this giant outdoor version using simple supplies.
Hand and Foot Hopscotch
Get active with this easy indoor hopscotch game! This activity focuses on the development of motor planning, differentiation between left and right, as well as visual processing.
Marble Painting
Use marbles and paint to create your own abstract art! This activity focuses on fine motor skills such as hand strength, bilateral coordination, in hand manipulation, visual tracking to watch marbles as they roll all over the paper, and determination of different sides of the body (left vs right).
Handprint Bouquet for Mother's Day
Use your hands and simple supplies for an easy Mother’s Day surprise! This fun craft focuses on the development of fine motor skills to cut, write, trace and fold the paper. Children work on visual motor skills and sequencing to create this craft.
Handprint Dish
Use clay to craft this useful and special gift! This activity aids in many areas of development including bilateral integration, hand and finger strengthening, sensory processing, fine motor skills, and visual motor skills.