Hol­i­day Gift Guide 2019

Need Some Great Gifts Ideas For Kids? Use Our Hol­i­day Gift Guide!

Lean­na Moss, Cer­ti­fied Occu­pa­tion­al Ther­a­py Assis­tant, and Anne Zinn, Speech Lan­guage Pathol­o­gist, are here to help you with your hol­i­day shop­ping for all those kid­dos in your life from an occu­pa­tion­al ther­a­py and speech ther­a­py perspective.

Gifts for Infants

The Baby Ein­stein Jel­ly­fish is real­ly good for audi­to­ry and visu­al development.

Anoth­er good toy as infants get old­er are Lit­tle Peo­ple. They are great toys for play as well as teach­ing chil­dren to fol­low commands.

Gifts for Toddlers

The Imag­i­na­tion Pat­terns Deluxe Set is great for visu­al motor skills. This toy’s wood­en pieces are mag­net­ic, so they won’t fall out all over the place, and comes with cards your kids can use to imi­tate what they are see­ing. This toy also comes with dry erase mark­ers that you can use to work on your child’s writing.

Anoth­er good toy to get this sea­son is any sort of doll. Play­ing with dolls works on social inter­ac­tion skills. To go along with a baby doll con­sid­er dress up items for your child. Play­ing dress up works on imag­i­na­tive skills and can help with self dress­ing skills from an occu­pa­tion­al ther­a­py perspective.

Gifts for Mid­dle Age Children

The Light Bright game is great for devel­op­ing fine motor skills. The game comes with pat­terns, or you can cre­ate your own imag­i­na­tive design. This game helps with iden­ti­fy­ing col­ors and works on num­ber concepts.

Anoth­er good sug­ges­tion for this age group is books. Books are always good for lan­guage devel­op­ment. The book ​“Where is Babies Present?” looks at spa­tial con­cepts, so you have to find a baby’s present by look­ing under or behind or beside cer­tain dif­fer­ent Christ­mas items. Anoth­er good book is ​“You are Not an Otter”. This book talks about picky eaters, it looks at dif­fer­ent ani­mals and the way they eat and com­pares them to your child.

Jen­ga is also a great toy for this age group. This game works on grad­ing a move­ment and is fun for the whole family.

The final gift that we are sug­gest­ing to pro­mote and facil­i­tate occu­pa­tion­al ther­a­py and speech ther­a­py skills is Play-doh. You can pur­chase Play-doh or you can make your own home­made Play-doh kit. This is real­ly good for lan­guage devel­op­ment and social inter­ac­tion skills as well as imag­i­na­tive skills. It’s also real­ly good for sen­so­ry and the tac­tile components.

If your child is strug­gling with any of these skills men­tioned in this video, please give us a call at 217−222−6550 exten­sion 3418 with any questions.