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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
Cotton Swab Fireworks Painting
Create this fun and kid-friendly fireworks painting this July! With only a few supplies, you can create colorful works of art to display.
Finish the Picture Activity
Put your creativity to the test with this fun and simple activity.
Start by printing out our templates for the start of your drawings. Have children choose which design they want to start with and the creativity can begin! Kids can use crayons, markers, colored pencils, or anything they choose to build a drawing around the marks already on the page.
Firefly Flash Tag Card Game
Get ready to light up the night with the Firefly Flash Tag Card Game! In this playful outdoor (or indoor!) activity, kids become curious firefly catchers, hunting for glowing prompt cards hidden around the space. Each firefly holds a silly, creative, or wiggly challenge—whether it’s hopping like a frog, making up a story, or saying words that shine. Designed to spark movement, imagination, and speech, this game blends summer magic with developmental skills. No net needed—just your best firefly-finding skills and a twinkle of curiosity!
Paper Chain Craft
An easy and fun DIY you can do with only a few supplies and is intuitively simple for kids!
Legos for Speech Therapy
Does your family have an abundance of Legos or a similar style of building block in your kids' playroom? Put those block to good use! These building blocks don’t just serve as a motivation...but also as a way to help learn and communicate, address articulation, language and more! Check it out:
Exercise Board Game
Get up and move with this free exercise board game for kids! This printable game board includes several body movements that will work on improving coordination, core strength, balance, and endurance. Whether it’s a rainy day inside, outside on the playground, or within a therapy session, kids will love having fun with this movement activity!
Multi-Tasking Game
Enjoy trying this great multi-tasking activity to help with learning, balance and also helps kids with throwing and eye-hand coordination. It's a great idea for indoors activities! Check it out:
Eat Right! For Families
Any time is the right time to "eat right" for your family's health and wellness! We'll be highlighting National Childhood Obesity Week in September this year, until then, take a little time to explore how to Eat Right!
4th of July Snack
Make a quick and delicious patriotic treat!
This activity focuses on auditory processing, gross motor skills, coordination, balance, motor planning, bilateral integration, visual perceptual skills, as well as developing hand and finger strength. Experience sensory integration via different tastes and textures.
Childhood Obesity
In July, we aim to help individuals take the time to understand the implications and effects on a child's health due to obesity — and how to be active in your child’s health life with tips for their diet and physical health.
Fireworks Painting
This activity focuses on the development of fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, color identification, sensory integration through touching the paint, and expressive and receptive language skills through asking the child about their art.
Childhood Chronic Disease Prevention & Management
As a parent, managing the needs of your child can be taxing and a constant, 24/7 job. While some conditions and diagnoses happen at birth or even before, there are some childhood chronic illnesses that can be prevented. It is important to understand what those measures of prevention are and how to employ them for yourself and your family.
Underwater Sensory Scene
Perfect to enjoy the summer, this activity also works on vital visual-perceptual skills to scan the underwater environment, find objects hiding behind one another, and language development for learning directional concepts such as the “fish is hiding behind the seaweed and above the rocks!”
Beach Ball Game
Work on gross motor skills with this easy and fun game! This activity focuses on developing hand eye coordination, balance, gross motor skills. The game can be graded to be more or less challenging depending on ability.
Colorful Cream Sensory Bin
Use simple household ingredients for fun sensory play! This activity involves sensory motor integration, fine motor skills, as well as expressive and receptive language skills. Engage in imaginative play through drawing pictures or playing your own version of Pictionary!
I Spy Shape & Color Search
Turn screen time into a brain-boosting game with our "I Spy" Shape & Color Search-and-Find sheet. This one-page download challenges children to scan a busy scene to locate specific shapes & colors, keeping them engaged and providing a fun challenge while practicing core cognitive skills.
Safe Home, Safe Family
June is National Safety Month. During this month, we aim to provide additional info for parents or families who want to learn more about how to impact their lives with the best safety measures in mind. This year, many of us have found ourselves “at home” more than ever before.
Family Health & Fitness
Family Health & Fitness Day is June 13th this year. Are you ready to get fit and have a ton of fun with your family? Then you are in the right place!
Summer Treats Sound Search
Help a friendly ice cream truck driver make and deliver summer treats—but only ones that include their target sounds!
Summer Activity List
Every child needs to stay active and experience new things to learn and enjoy during the summer. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with new ideas when you are in the moment. Make it easy with our summer activity list!