Brightly Coloured & Engaging Printables
Easy to follow Training Videos and PDFs
Understand & Manage Difficult Behaviours
Why Choose Little Wooden Toybox?
We are all about equipping kids to succeed at school, as well as empowering parents, educators and therapists to confidently teach educational and life skill concepts, particularly when working with kids with difficult behaviours and/or additional needs.
We are big on learning through play, fine motor skills, understanding sensory and emotional regulation, using strategies such as planners and routines to better cope with day to day life, while also teaching life skills to encourage our kids to grow into well balanced adults.
Our training and resources are designed to help you to understand difficult behaviours, to recognise and identify the possible underlying reasons (and there are lots!) for the behaviours that you are seeing, and to give you tools and strategies that will make your life and theirs much calmer and more enjoyable!
Learning Through Play
Play is such a fun way to learn a wide range of educational and life skill concepts. Our printables are brightly coloured & interactive, to ensure your child is engaged and learning through play!
Fine Motor Skills
Play activities to develop scissor control, hand strength, bilateral coordination, pincer grip, learn correct letter formation, write first & last name, colour between the lines, puzzles, handwriting
Sensory & Emotional Regulation
Learn and understand why difficult behaviours occur. Gain practical & interactive tools, strategies and resources to manage difficult behaviours.
Tools & Strategies to Keep Calm
Our training includes tools & strategies to understand and support kids with Anxiety | Autism | ADHD | Sensory Processing Disorders | Difficult Behaviours
Helping thousands of parents, teachers, early childhood educators and therapists
to confidently teach and equip kids to succeed at school and in life... all while learning through play 💖
Managing Difficult Behaviours
- Designed for Parents, Teachers & Therapists to better understand Routines, Sensory Processing & Emotional Regulation
- Kids with additional needs are so often misunderstood and incorrectly labelled as 'naughty', and then palmed off as someone else's problem as they appear unteachable.
- What if you had training, tools, strategies and resources to better understand and interact with these kids?
- Are you ready to challenge those misconceptions and traditional thought patterns around behaviour?
- Are you ready to learn more about what these kids experience day in day out, as well as gain strategies to reduce sensory overwhelm, provide more movement breaks and set up routines to create calm and certainty in your life and theirs?
Skills to Succeed at School
- Designed for Parents, Teachers & Therapists to Confidently Teach Fine Motor Skills with Play
- Teachers are now seeing so many kids struggle with fine motor skills due to too much time spent on devices, and not enough time spent playing in real life (we get it - finding the balance is hard!).
- We have loads of play activities to develop fine motor skills including bilateral coordination, crossing the midline, pincer grip, handwriting and scissor skills, as well as covering loads of other learning areas and educational concepts.
Learning Through Play
- Designed for Parents and Early Childhood Educators to Confidently Teach Skills Through Play
- We believe in making learning fun - with sensory play and open ended activities that encourage children to learn, play, explore and discover.
- Kids are wired to learn through play, not to sit at desks with pens. Play encourages FMS, GMS, vocabulary, comprehension, problem solving, resilience, cause & effect, social skills and so much more.
- Furthermore, we want to help you understand what is really going on when kids play... What are they learning? How can they be learning when they are making so much mess?
- And to challenge any misconceptions about what learning looks like. Are they really learning more if sitting quietly at a desk with a worksheet vs. loud water play with scoops and toys?
Meet Tash
Hi I'm Tash, Director of Little Wooden Toybox, designer of the Letter Basics resources (our own brand), single mum of two teens with ASD (Autism), ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and we've recently added PDA (Extreme Demand Avoidance) to the list - fun times!
My background is in teaching (B.Ed K-7) as well as special/additional needs, and this combined with over 10 years of early intervention has given me a unique insight into - Understanding difficult behaviours and why they occur
- Understanding how emotional regulation and sensory input impacts both us as parents and our little ones (diagnosed or not)
- Developing, implementing and managing resources & coping strategies to make home life calmer & more organised
All of these concepts and resources can be applied in the classroom, home and/or therapy; equipping parents, teachers, early childhood educators and therapists with tools and strategies to confidently manage difficult behaviours.
It's also important to note that these strategies also work for neurotypical children and children struggling with anxiety, helping to keep you and them calm and happy, and ready to learn and play!
“I have lived this day in & day out for the last 14 years – I am in a unique position to not only create amazing resources with input from therapists, but to test them in real life situations at home (where all the crazy comes out!)” – Tash K
