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Forest Kids Occupational Therapy

Take your child's therapy into the woods! Small group outdoor occupational therapy.

12/05/2025

Last day of fall session today was a wet one but we had so much fun with the kids playing games, splashing in every puddle in sight, learning about different kinds of mushrooms, reviewing regulation tools, and crafting.

It’s such a privilege to learn, play and explore with this incredible group of kids. This fall was also our first time running two concurrent groups of FKOT and expanding our amazing team - so grateful for our staff and volunteers for all of their love, playfulness, kindness, hard work, and for enthusiastically braving the elements week after week in this rainy fall. ❤️

What’s next for FKOT? Our team will be working on individual reports and recommendations for each child, and then gearing up for our winter 2026 groups!

11/29/2025

A festive day in the forest today. So much fun with gingerbread playdoh and making snow globes. That November sun sure felt glorious today - we try not to let the weather affect us too much but it certainly has been a rainy fall, so it was so nice to soak up the sun today!

11/21/2025

Lots of fun today blowing deep breaths through straws - here we built boats and blew them around the water.

Today we introduced breath as a tool for changing activation levels to match the demands of certain situations. Breath is the fastest way to calm our nervous system- it activates our parasympathetic nervous system response, which sends signals of deactivation via our vagus nerve. We practiced lots of playful breathing exercises today like rainbow breathing, hot chocolate breathing, finger breathing and box breathing.

11/14/2025

So much fun making slime today! Slime is a great way to introduce touch as a sensory tool to change activation levels. We also had so much fun cooking up some delicious meals in our mud kitchen today, and are forever in awe of all the beautiful different types of mushrooms growing around us.

11/07/2025

Lots of focus on heavy work play today - these provide calming and organizing sensory and proprioceptive input as a self regulation tool. Burrito roll-ups, hammock play, ball bouncing, wheelbarrow walks, and partner pushups were the favourites!

10/31/2025

Spooky Halloween fun in the forest today. We had fun making giant spider webs with ropes and carabiners, then warming up with some hot apple cider on the camp stove and then doing a fun Halloween scavenger hunt our amazing volunteers created. Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate! 🎃

10/25/2025

Our winter groups are starting to fill up! Come join us for 8 weeks of fun in the forest while working towards OT goals!

10/24/2025

An atmospheric river won’t stop us from having fun! We had such a great session today working on fine motor skills including some knife and whittling skills. The kids all came dressed for the rain and were delighted to jump and play in big puddles along the trail today.

10/20/2025

Winter 2026 is now open for registration! This 8 week session runs Friday mornings from January 16 - March 6th. Visit our website to learn more and apply!

www.forestkidsot.ca

10/17/2025

What a stunning fall day in the forest! Our groups loved noticing all of the fall colours and the beauty of the filtered sunlight.

Today we introduced the Activation Meter with our playful dinosaur friends - a self regulation tool to help children and families communicate activation levels. All ranges on the activation meter are appropriate, but sometimes we need to change our activation levels to match certain situations. We’ll be exploring tools in upcoming weeks for how we can change activation levels up or down as needed.

10/10/2025

“My body feels like a rainbow when I am happy!”

We love using playful books to help develop emotional literacy. The Color Monster sparked discussion today about how we feel in our bodies when we feel excited, frustrated, happy, angry, calm, sad, confused, among others. Then some children chose one of those emotions and drew how they feel in their bodies when they experience that, as another way to foster greater awareness of their emotion state, another foundation of self regulation.

10/03/2025

Collaborative pumpkin painting was our gathering invitation today and these kids sure embraced it! We love when kids lead the play and soon the paintbrushes were put aside for full on hand painting, and dumping bottles of paint all over the pumpkins. So much fun sensory play!

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Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve
North Vancouver, BC

Website

http://www.forestkidsot.ca/

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