Free tools and guidance for parents, educators, and professionals.
Resources and Useful Links for Child Development Supports
From Assessment to Plan
The Handbook: From Assessment to Plan is a comprehensive, practitioner-focused guide to support professionals working with children in early intervention. It is structured into three main pillars that walk the reader through the full journey from understanding the child's needs to developing actionable, family-centred plans.
The Entrepreneur Journey for Kids
The Entrepreneur Journey for Kids – Level 1 This fun and interactive workbook introduces children aged 7–12 to entrepreneurship and real-world money skills. With playful characters like Nova the Fox and Riley the Raccoon, kids learn how to count money, set prices, track profits, and plan their very own business ideas. Designed to boost creativity, problem-solving, and confidence, it also supports parents and teachers in guiding children on their first entrepreneurial adventure.
Tabletop Manipulative Activities
A collection of fun, hands-on tabletop activities such as homemade playdough, threading, shape sorting, and art projects. These activities support fine motor skills, creativity, problem-solving, and early learning through play.
Recommendations for Speech Stimulation (Ages 1-3)
Practical tips and playful exercises to encourage speech in young children. Includes sound games, rhymes, songs, and imitation activities that build auditory perception, body awareness, and early language skills.
Hide-and-Seek with Toys
Engaging games that develop memory, coordination, and curiosity. Activities include toy hide-and-seek, action songs like The Wheels on the Bus, and a simple science experiment exploring what floats or sinks.
The Entrepreneur Journey for Kids
The Entrepreneur Journey for Kids – Level 2. This fun and interactive workbook introduces children aged 7–12 to entrepreneurship and real-world money skills. With playful characters like Nova the Fox and Riley the Raccoon, kids learn how to count money, set prices, track profits, and plan their very own business ideas. Designed to boost creativity, problem-solving, and confidence, it also supports parents and teachers in guiding children on their first entrepreneurial adventure.
The Ultimate Phonics Word Book for Kids
A printable phonics resource covering blends, digraphs, diphthongs, trigraphs, quadgraphs, R-controlled vowels, and sight words. Designed to support early reading, it offers structured “point and read” word lists, Jolly Phonics phases, and progress tracking to help children build strong literacy foundations.
Self-regulation
Self-regulation is the ability to manage one’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviours in order to adapt to situations and achieve goals. Unlike self-control, which is mainly about stopping certain actions, self-regulation is about finding balance between inner states and external demands. It develops through cognitive, emotional, and physiological processes, with attention, inhibition, and working memory playing key roles. Early interactions with parents and the environment are essential, and first signs of self-regulation can be seen already in infancy.
Nature Journal
Printable Nature Journal – Explore, Observe & Learn Outdoors! Immerse your little ones in the wonders of nature with our Printable Nature Journal! Designed for preschoolers and aligned with the Charlotte Mason educational philosophy, this comprehensive resource is perfect for homeschoolers and parents who want to encourage a love for the outdoors and a deep appreciation for the natural world. With beautifully illustrated pages and engaging activities, your child will explore nature, foster curiosity, and build creativity—all while developing important skills.
10 ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP ATTENTION THROUGH PLAY
This resource outlines 10 play-based activities designed to strengthen children’s attention skills through simple, engaging tasks that target visual scanning, listening, impulse control, sequencing, and response inhibition. It also includes practical adaptations so each activity can be scaled to the child’s developmental level and sensory needs, making it useful for both home and intervention settings.
35 Naturalistic ABA Protocols for Children with Autism
This guide presents 35 naturalistic ABA protocols designed to support children with autism through play, daily routines, communication, and relationship-based interaction rather than drill-based teaching. It offers practical, step-by-step strategies for parents, caregivers, and professionals to build skills such as joint attention, communication, regulation, play, flexibility, and independence in meaningful real-life contexts.
The Calm & Confident Parent
Thist Handbook is a practical, parent-friendly guide designed to support children’s early development through clear, everyday strategies that build communication, emotional regulation, confidence, independence, and learning in a natural way.
Play & Grow - 100 sensory activities
Play & Grow is a practical, screen-free handbook for parents and caregivers, offering 100 sensory activities that support early childhood development by building motor skills, language, creativity, problem-solving, and emotional regulation through simple everyday play.
SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER HANDBOOK
The Sensory Processing Disorder Handbook is a clear, practical guide for parents and caregivers, helping them understand sensory processing challenges, recognise common sensory patterns, and better support children with regulation, behaviour, movement, and everyday functioning.
Fine Motor Development Resource
RESOURCE DESCRIPTION This resource provides a practical, play-based guide to supporting fine motor development in children. It outlines key developmental stages, underlying skills such as hand strength, bilateral coordination, visual motor integration, and postural control, as well as clear, structured activities to support progress at home, in school, or in therapy settings. Designed for parents, teachers, and professionals, the guide focuses on building strong foundational skills through engaging and functional activities. It supports the development of independence, confidence, and readiness for everyday tasks such as dressing, writing, and self-care. All activities are developmentally informed and can be easily adapted based on the child’s needs, ensuring a flexible and child-centred approach.
First Words & Early Language Toolkit
Support your toddler’s early communication with this free, screen-free language guide for parents and caregivers. Inside, you’ll find practical everyday strategies, 100 high-impact first words, simple modelling phrases, and gentle ideas for building language through routines like meals, bath time, dressing, play, books, and outdoor walks. This toolkit is designed to help families support early vocabulary naturally, without pressure, flashcards, or screens — just warm, responsive interaction woven into everyday life.
Early Numbers & Pre-Writing Skills Kit
Help your child build early maths and pre-writing foundations through play. This free printable kit supports number recognition, counting, matching quantities, simple sequencing, tracing, pencil control, visual attention, and fine motor development. The activities are designed to be practical, engaging, and easy to use at home. Children can count objects, match numbers to amounts, follow lines and paths, complete simple number tasks, and practise the hand control needed for later writing. Perfect for parents who want calm, hands-on learning without screens.
Communication of Needs in Preschool Children
This free resource helps parents and educators understand why young children often communicate through behaviour before they can clearly use words. It explains how crying, refusal, withdrawal, throwing, or frustration can often be a child’s way of saying, “I need help,” “This is too much,” or “I don’t feel safe.” Inside, you’ll find practical guidance on how communication of needs develops through the preschool years, how stress affects children’s ability to use language, and how adults can respond calmly by observing, offering simple words, reducing pressure, and supporting the child back toward communication. A gentle, relationship-based guide for anyone supporting preschool-aged children.