Occupational Therapy Groups

A playful, welcoming group designed for young children to explore, connect, and build confidence through play. Each week begins with familiar songs and finger-play games, helping children build routine and consistency. Activities are approachable for children who use verbal language and those who communicate in other ways.

Children are invited to explore sensory play and imaginative play, with opportunities such as building forts, water play, sand play, and more. With a maximum of three children, there is plenty of support while children play alongside new peers, try something new, and have fun together.

What happens when you give children a recipe, a budget, and a trip to the grocery store? You get Skills for Supper. Each week, the group chooses a recipe, makes a shopping list, budgets ingredient costs, shops across the street, prepares a meal together, and, when they are comfortable, tries what they have made.

Along the way, children practise problem solving, decision making, time management, flexible thinking, turn-taking, and confidence in a fun, practical, social setting. With a maximum of four children, there is plenty of opportunity to participate, contribute ideas, and learn from one another.

Art Collective is a space to create, explore, and express yourself through art. Each week, participants are invited into an artistic project to complete with the group or work on alongside others. They can follow the project as presented, put their own spin on it, or use the materials in whatever way inspires them to create something completely their own.

There is no right way to make art here, just opportunities to explore materials, experiment with ideas, and enjoy the creative process. With a maximum of three participants, there is plenty of space to create at your own pace, share ideas, and enjoy being creative alongside peers.

Creative Movement gives participants a flexible space to explore rhythm, expression, and movement that feels good in their own bodies. Rather than working toward a particular dance style, the group centres personal expression and discovering how movement can support self-regulation, confidence, and joy. Activities are approachable for children who use verbal language and those who communicate in other ways.

Through sensory warm-ups, strength, mobility, and balance activities, action songs and rhymes, dance skill instruction, and creative movement through games, improvisation, and storytelling, participants can experiment with space, time, energy, and emotion. There is room to move, be silly, try new skills, and build a more connected relationship with their bodies and the world around them.

Snack Skills brings the practical, social, and problem-solving fun of Skills for Supper to snack-sized recipes. Each week, the group chooses a snack, plans what they need, figures out the cost, shops across the street, and returns to prepare their creation.

Participants practise problem solving, decision making, time management, flexible thinking, turn-taking, and confidence through a real-life, hands-on experience. Snack recipes can mean less pressure around eating a full meal, letting participants focus on planning, shopping, preparing, and connecting with the group, with the option to try the snack when they feel comfortable. With a maximum of four children, there is plenty of opportunity to participate, contribute ideas, and learn from one another.

Creative Movement gives participants a flexible space to explore rhythm, expression, and movement that feels good in their own bodies. Rather than working toward a particular dance style, the group centres personal expression and discovering how movement can support self-regulation, confidence, and joy. Activities are approachable for children who use verbal language and those who communicate in other ways.

Through sensory warm-ups, strength, mobility, and balance activities, action songs and rhymes, dance skill instruction, and creative movement through games, improvisation, and storytelling, participants can experiment with space, time, energy, and emotion. There is room to move, be silly, try new skills, and build a more connected relationship with their bodies and the world around them.