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Hundreds of videos and downloadables built by our team.

Play-based programs that cover the most common challenges: sleep, feeding, emotions, sensory, motor skills, school readiness and more.

Every program has a play kit.

The toys & tools that bring learning off the screen and into your child’s world.

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Sleep Program
A step-by-step program to help your child wind down and build healthy sleep habits.
Sleep Visual Set
Printable visual cards to help children create and follow and own their bedtime routine.
Sleep Journal
A guided Good Night journal for children to reflect, wind down and build restful habits.
Sleep Facilitator Pamphlet
Practical guidance on sleep hygiene, regulation strategies and calming environments.
Self-Care Program
Practical, play-based activities to build your child's independence in daily self-care routines like body washing, hair care, dental care, lotion/sunscreen.
Puberty Self-Care Masterclass
Expert guidance for navigating self-care during puberty, with a focus on autistic teens.
Sensory: Self-Care Considerations Masterclass
Understanding sensory challenges in self-care and strategies to make daily tasks manageable.
Toileting Masterclass
A comprehensive guide to supporting your child through every stage of toileting.
Self-Care Visual Instruction Cards
Step-by-step visual cards for tasks like dental care, hair care and personal hygiene.
Feeding & Mealtimes: Helping You Get Started Program
Covers feeding foundations and mealtime support, including sensory exploration, positioning, routines, and playful food activities to reduce stress and build skills.
Cooking for Independence Program
Covers a full set of family-friendly cooking lessons (breakfast to dinner and snacks), focusing on hygiene, knife skills, preparation steps, and reflection.
Lunch Box Program
Covers building healthy lunchbox routines through planning, sensory exploration, and practical “what to pack” guidance across lunch and snack times.
Food Creation Cards + Ways to Play
Engaging food art activities that turn mealtimes into creative, positive experiences.
Food Memory Cards + Ways to Play
Classic games using food images to make exploring new foods fun and low-pressure.
Let's Eat the Rainbow
A colourful storybook that invites children to explore and talk about food without pressure.
Visual Recipe Cards
Step-by-step visual recipe cards covering meals, kitchen skills and food safety.
Routines Program
Covers building supportive family routines across the day (morning to bedtime), including sensory needs, breaks, sleep, movement, connection, and practical examples to foster independence at home.
Routines Visual Set
Child-friendly visual cards to help children develop supportive routines, anticipate transitions and navigate their day.
Routines Journal
A guided journal with supporting videos for children to explore morning, afternoon and evening routines.
Routines Planner Set Ways to Play
Playful sequencing activities to help children design routines that work for them.
Routines Facilitator Guide
Step-by-step support for building consistent morning, afternoon and evening routines at home or school.
Regulating the Nervous System Through Sensory Play Program
Covers sensory play as a pathway for regulation, including how to use sensory play to support the nervous system and play-based activities to help your child calm and regulate using their senses.
Discovering your Calm Program
Covers sensory processing and regulation for everyday life, including core concepts, internal senses and co-regulation.
Regulation; Attention and Learning Program
Provides classroom-focused guidance on to support attention and learning by helping teachers and children work collaboratively to choose appropriate tools, set clear boundaries, and reflect on what works best in different situations.
Sensory: An Overview Masterclass
Everything you need to know about the senses and how they shape your child's development.
Body Check-In Visual Set
A hands-on visual tool to help children connect physical sensations with emotions and responses.
Regulation Tracker
A simple tracking tool that helps families observe when each person is “too high,” “too low,” or “just right” across the day so they can identify patterns, triggers, and helpful strategies that support better regulation.
Buzzing Bees in My Brain Storybook
Helps kids understand and talk about feeling overwhelmed when the world feels too loud, bright, or scratchy, while giving parents simple ways to support emotional regulation and co-regulation.
Yoga & Mindfulness Program
A set of calming, body-based strategies (like grounding, breath-based activities, body scan, “take five,” and balancing energy up or down) designed to help children feel safe, settled, and emotionally regulated.
Building Motor Skills Through Play
Engaging, play-based activities targeting strength, coordination and motor planning.
Movement & Outdoor Play Program
Inspire physical engagement, creativity and coordination through movement and outdoor experiences.
Fine Motor Skills Masterclass
Expert guidance on fine motor milestones and practical strategies to support skill development.
Gross Motor Skills Cards
A card set targeting balance, bilateral integration, motor planning and hand-eye coordination.
Core Strength Cards
Play-based activity cards to build the physical stability needed for posture, balance and everyday tasks.
Animal Walks Cards
Movement prompt cards to build gross motor skills, balance and spatial awareness through animal play.
Balloon Games Ways to Play
Low-pressure balloon activities to develop motor skills, tracking and teamwork through play.
Yoga Card Set
A sequence of animal-inspired yoga poses and flows that build strength, balance, stability, coordination, and body awareness.
Emotions Part 1: Naming Our Feelings Program
Build your child's emotional literacy by helping them name, recognise and express their feelings.
Emotions Part 2: Discovering Our Body's Clues Program
Help children tune into physical sensations as signals for understanding how they feel.
Feelings Cards
30 illustrated cards to help children recognise what emotions look, feel and sound like.
Emotions Playing Cards + Ways to Play
A versatile card set for matching, memory, storytelling and emotional check-ins.
Feelings Journal
A guided journal for children to name, explore and reflect on a wide range of emotions.
Emotions Check-In Visuals
Mix-and-match visual pieces for children to build "I am feeling…" sentences and explore expressions.
Body Check-In Visual Set
A hands-on visual tool to help children connect physical sensations with emotions and responses.
Breathing Cards Set
Visual, child-friendly breathing technique cards for transitions, stress and emotional moments.
Calm Down Story Book
A child-friendly story guiding children through using a calm ball to manage big emotions.
Affirmation Cards
28 uplifting affirmation cards to build resilience, self-compassion and a growth mindset.
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Built by allied health professionals.

The Play Way was created by people who understand child development and what it looks like in real family life.

Our team includes occupational therapists, speech pathologists and behaviour practitioners.

Practical

Practical

Clear strategies you can actually use.

Play-based

Play-based

Because learning doesn't have to feel like work.

Evidence-informed

Evidence-informed

Built from professional knowledge and experience.

Flexible & accessible

Flexible & accessible

Designed to fit your family, your life and what works for you.

Our approach

For professionals

Clinicians and educators, we're here to work alongside you.

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Use our resources and platform to support the work you do with families and children, with practical tools and strategies you can use in your practice or classroom and share with families.

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