OT Time Kids Therapy

09/06/2026

🌱 We explored the park by hobby horse today and found all sorts for our nature weaving.

❤️ We took time to register our heart rates, feel the different textures, listen to the birds.

🎶 Poetry!

12/05/2026

😃 Guess what goal we were working on today?????

🧚 Note the fairy drop box in the foreground.

30/04/2026

The Challenge:
Build a shelter to keep you dry for 10 mins in the rain.

The skills:

💪 Motor planning.

❓ Problem solving.

🙌 Visual motor skills.

👀 Attention

😊 Self regulation

🦟 Advanced insect repelling powers.

🌦️ Having a bonza day in all weather!

Check out our fancy floor rug too. Masterly.

😃 Join me if you’d like to try nature based therapy in bayside Brisbane.

15/04/2026

👍 Make it relevant.

🙌 Make it practical.

🤩 Make it enjoyable.

Learning that lasts – straight from the farm

Did you know a 2024 study found that children learning in a farm-based setting with animal interaction showed stronger long-term memory retention compared to classroom-only learning?

Interestingly:
👉 Test scores didn’t change immediately
👉 But learning stuck better over time (even after a month!)

This suggests that hands-on, real-world experiences with animals don’t just engage students — they help deepen and sustain learning.

When learning is meaningful, sensory, and emotionally engaging… it lasts.

19/03/2026

❤️ I love this soft, cooler weather. It feels like I have time. I’ve never liked cold water and I’ve always found the sensation of being wet uncomfortable. But once I’m wet, I’m so glad I did it. It brings me back to the present moment. I feel more alive.

🌳 But that’s what the outdoors does for us. We feel
alive and present. Nature is good for us because we are nature. It’s a ready made regulation and engagement tool.

🌧️ The slight changes in temperature. The altering terrain causing slight adjustments in our posture and balance. The changes in light as the cloud covers the sun. The feel of light rain on the face and arms. The smell of the mud and mangroves. The sound of the waves and the wind in the leaves. Sensory experiences are laid on for us.

⛵️ In today’s bayside adventure, a family of 3 (Bob, Sally and baby Tilly) built a raft and drifted to their new island abode with bountiful food, water and shelter.

😉 Get amongst it.

04/12/2025

🌳 Nice day for it!

🙌 Fine motor skills

✅ Motor planning

🏃 Balance

🧘 Meditation

🐦 Nice bit of mud, breeze and birdsong.

❤️ More fun than can be had in one day!

27/11/2025

🤪 It’s been a wild week down on the bay.

⛈️ Massive hail storm,

🏝️ Mr Ah Ah Apples beach birthday bash and

🖥️ Telehealth Chistmas parties.

❤️ Never a dull moment!

29/10/2025

Happy OT Week!

✅ Yep cooking is an occupation!

✅ Play is an occupation!

16/10/2025

🪵 Clapping sticks today. Seems simple enough but so many skills developed in this one little activity.

✅ I need to plan the steps to take to do this task and adjust my plan if it’s not working out.

✅ I need to plan how I hold my hands and grade the pressure to manipulate tools like saws, peelers and knives.

✅ I need to make adjustments to support my nervous system if sensations like sawdust falling on bare skin or kneeling on grass is too much.

✅ I need to coordinate both sides of my body while I hold something unstable with one hand while I use my other hand to use a tool such as textas to decorate.

👌 But first of all I need to feel safe with a regulated nervous system so I can be present, learn and pay attention.

🌳 So good to achieve that by being in nature doing what you love. ❤️

15/10/2025

Today’s episode direct from my waterfront office in Lota.

✅ We planned

🗣️ We communicated

🪵 We collected

🪚 We sawed

⛺️ We structured

🌟 We created!

❤️ Hands, heads and hearts.

🌳 OT in the great outdoors…
☺️ Living it!
🥰 Loving it!

☕️ If you think this might be your child’s cup of tea message me. Happy to chat.