Below are Motor Skill Development resources for parents and caregivers. Click on the resource to access it.
Resources
Handouts
- Balance Activities
- Ball Skills
- The Inspired Treehouse: Core strengthening
- Gross Motor activities
- KidsAbility: Helping your child walk
- SickKids: How to buy good running shoes for your child
- Jumping, leaping and galloping
- SickKids: Motor development: The first six months
- SickKids: Motor development: The next six months
- Movement Breaks
- SickKids: Physical development of premature babies
- Shoe recommendations
- SickKids: Toe walking, idiopathic
- Pathways.org: Tummy Time activity brochure
- Pathways.org: Tummy Time Handout: Five moves for your baby’s first workout
Videos
- Toe Walking – Tier 1
- Balance Before Pedals: Five reasons to start with a Balance Bike (Source: Five Counties Children’s Centre)
- Balance and Beyond: How to build bike skills (Source: Five Counties Children’s Centre)
- Teach your kid how to ride a bike (Source: BikeRadar)
