2024 KTL Holiday Toy List - 12 Days of Toys
KTL therapists share some of their favorite toys to work on therapy at home.
Feel great about giving this holiday season!
#1 Harkla Swing
Targets: Sensory processing, postural stability
Appx. $60 - Purchase here
#2 Drawing Pad
Targets: writing, fine motor skills, and visual processing
Appx. $13 - Purchase here
#3 Balloon- Powered Car Toy
Targets: playful approach to target core words such as “go,” “up,” “down,” and “help” as well as turn-taking
Appx. $22 - Purchase here
#4 Cutting Play Fruit
Targets: pretend play/imagination, vocabulary words of food items, and fine motor skills “cutting” the food
Appx. $20 - Purchase here
#5 All Better Book
Targets: pretend dialogue, fine motor, following directions, and matching
Appx. $13 - Purchase here
#6 Big Feelings Pineapple
Targets:
Speech: labeling, turn-taking, and requesting. Targets core words “put in,” “off,” “on,” “more,” and “all done.”
OT: fine motor and understanding and identifying emotions
Appx. $13 - Purchase here
#7 Critter Clinic
Targets: following directions, fine motor, concepts
Appx. $27 - Purchase here
#8 Ball Popper
Targets: core words “stop,” “go,” and “more”; can hook up to a switch for accessibility; cause and effect; positional concepts up/down/in/out
Appx. $39 - Purchase here
#9 Sensory Play Tray
Targets: fine motor; sensory input; your child’s core words depending on what you put in the bin; you can make it thematic/seasonal to target with specific vocabulary; You could do a monthly sensory bin or pair it with a book to reinforce specific vocabulary!
Appx. $70 - Purchase here
#10 Vibrating Cushion
Targets: attention, soothing, and emotional regulation
Appx. $30 - Purchase here
#11 Social-Emotional Learning Book
Targets: social-emotional skills, managing anger, asking for help, when to use quiet voices, and more
Appx. $17 - Purchase here
#12 Frankie’s Food Truck Fiasco Game
Targets: turn-taking and matching with young kids.
Appx. $19 - Purchase here