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Welcome to COTA Life, your destination for high-quality digital resources tailored for teachers and therapists. Our tools support essential childhood skills related to occupational therapy, including fine and gross motor, visual motor, self-help, and handwriting. Our multi-skill resources, therapeutic games, and home program tools are designed to be engaging, effective, and easy to integrate into your sessions and lessons addressing much needed skill development.
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Mat Man Sequencing Cards & Posters | Body Awareness Activities
NEWLY UPDATED!! 01/02/2026Mat Man Sequencing Cards & Posters | Body Awareness Activities Bring Mat Man to life while helping children strengthen body awareness, visual motor integration, sequencing, and spatial awareness skills through hands-on play! These engaging Mat Man Sequencing Cards & Posters are perfect for occupational therapy sessions, preschool and kindergarten classrooms, special education supports, learning centers, and home practice. Children will love building, matching, sequenc
PreK - 1st
Not Subject Specific
Drawing Mat Man Throughout the Year
Children will love using these pages as decorative frames for their Mat Man (or self-portrait) artwork! They could be used for bulletin board display, booklet creation, take home, or portfolio collection. These colorful pages allow children to practice drawing Mat Man or their own self-portrait throughout the calendar year and there is an optional set for name writing too! (Check out the preview sample pages.) These pages are great to be used in occupational therapy individual or group session
PreK - 1st
Mat Man Prewriting Pathways - Set 1
Mat Man Prewriting Pathways - Set 1 is a fun way to work on prewriting skills with children! Children need the opportunity to work on fine motor control and precision, eye-hand coordination, tool control, grasp patterns, and tool use fluidity while also addressing sequencing skills. This activity pack uses shapes and Mat Man to facilitate a child's motivation to work on tracing or drawing within different pathways improving necessary fine and visual motor skills. This set is a great way to begi
PreK - 1st
Mat Man Body Shapes Coloring Pages | Body Awareness & Pre-Writing
Updated: 2/2/26 to change overall appearance of resource and add two new shapes of hourglass and trapezoid. ENJOY!NO PREP Mat Man Body Shapes Coloring Pages are print-and-go coloring sheets designed to support fine motor development, visual motor integration, shape awareness, pre-writing, coloring skills, and body awareness. These simple, engaging pages are ideal for occupational therapy (individual or group sessions), speech therapy, classroom activities or centers, and homeschool use. Shapes I
PreK - 2nd
Not Subject Specific
Mat Man Prewriting Pathways - Set 2
Mat Man Prewriting Pathways - Set 2 is a fun way to work on prewriting skills with children! Children need the opportunity to work on fine motor control and precision, eye-hand coordination, tool control, grasp patterns, and tool use fluidity while also addressing sequencing skills. This activity pack uses shapes and Mat Man to facilitate a child's motivation to work on tracing or drawing within different pathways improving necessary fine and visual motor skills. This set is a great way to begin
PreK - 2nd
Label Mat Man Packet
NO PREP Updated Label Mat Man Packet is so simple to use. Just print and go is all you need to do! This packet contains 7 different versions containing uppercase and lowercase letters. There are color and black and white versions to work not only on handwriting, but provide some coloring opportunities too. This packet addresses body awareness and handwriting by labeling the different body parts of Mat Man. These packet is a great resource to use for occupational therapy individual or group ses
PreK - 2nd
Handwriting
Shape Man Cutting and Puzzle Pages
Updated: 8/3/24 to add rhombus to resource per customer request.NO PREP and DIFFERENTIATED Shape Man Body Shapes Cutting and Puzzle Pages are simple, just print and go cutting pages which focus on fine motor, visual motor, visual perception, shape awareness, cutting, sequencing, number and body awareness skills. The cutting and puzzle pages are great to use for occupational therapy individual or group sessions, speech therapy, classroom activities or centers or for home school. This is the li
PreK - 2nd
Fine Motor Play Dough Mats Bundle
Fine Motor Play Dough Mats Bundle contains Fine Motor Play Dough Mats and Fine Motor Pastel Play Dough Mats which are simple print and laminate (or sheet protect) mats that can be printed in either color or black and white format. They make for great independent center work for young children or are great tools for therapists to help kiddos work on their fine motor and visual motor skills during individual and group therapy sessions. Therapists: Want to push-into younger classrooms? These can he
PreK - 1st
FREE Deep Breathing Rainbow
FREE Deep Breathing Rainbow is designed to provide kiddos with a visual tool to help assist them with a deep breathing coping strategy for achieving optimal self-regulation and an opportunity for mindfulness. Children (and adults) face many challenging situations and interactions throughout the day. This fun visual tool can provide a child with the "just right" visual reminder for calming their bodies to face a situation in a calmer state. This tool can be used in therapy, in the classroom (grea
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School Counseling
Prewriting Shape Roads | Fine Motor & Shape Formation Tracing Mats
Road Shape Mats includes 15 fantastic road shape mats that children can use to "vroom-vroom" around to learn and reinforce shape formation skills while enhancing fine motor and visual perceptual skills. These mats are simple to use—just have the child drive a car along the roads for each shape, by starting at the green 'go' car and ending at the red 'stop' car. Shapes included:CircleSquareTriangleRectangleOvalRhombus x 2TrapeziumSemi-CircleParallelogramHeartCrescentStarHexagonOctagonPentagonSimp
PreK - 1st
Mat Man Coloring Pages | Mat Man Character Adventures
Mat Man Character Adventures - Bring Mat Man to life in a whole new way! This resource includes 22 engaging coloring pages where Mat Man is transformed into a variety of fun characters. From real-life occupations like a firefighter, chef, and astronaut to playful costumes like a leprechaun, pilgrim, and scarecrow—kids will love exploring each themed Mat Man creation. These pages are designed to be a supplemental resource to support the Learning Without Tears Mat Man program. They extend learning
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Coloring Pages, Not Subject Specific
Doodle Shapes Trace, Color, and Cut
Doodle Shapes Trace, Color, and Cut is a cutting packet filled with fun doodle friend shapes and plain shapes too! You get 11 doodle friend shapes (with faces) and 11 plain shapes (without faces). Plus, the above mentioned smaller shape pages too! That's a total of 44 pages altogether, so you choose which ones you want to use and simply just print! Use the sheets to address tracing skills by tracing the dotted lines, coloring skills by coloring the shapes, and cutting skills by cutting out the
PreK - 2nd
b and d & p and q Reversal Reference Posters and Cards Bundle
Letter Reversal Reference Posters & Desk-top Cards - b and d AND p and q are exactly what you need if you have students who struggle to recognize and write lowercase letters b/d and p/q! In this resource, you will find reference posters and desk-top reference cards to help children learn strategies with use of mnemonic cues to assist with recognizing and writing these two problematic letters. You can use the visual mnemonic posters to help the entire class or use the desk-top cards for individu
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Handwriting
Defining Emotions Coloring Book | Social-Emotional Learning & Feelings
Defining Emotions Coloring Book is an advanced book of coloring educational sheets that contain the emotion descriptors coupled with the matching graphics. These can be used to help children identify emotions and/or feelings based on the ZONEs of Regulation™ colors. They will learn the color zone for each coloring page while using their fine and visual motor skills to color the picture background along with the emotional word the correct zone color of either red, yellow, green, or blue. They fol
2nd - 8th
School Counseling
Emotions Coloring Book One | Social-Emotional Learning & Feelings
The Emotions Coloring Book is designed to address the basic emotions of children while helping them identify emotions and/or feelings based on the curriculum you are using in your setting. This resource could make a great addition any self regulation/behavior/social emotional learning curriculum such as: How Does Your Engine Run™, PBIS™, SEL™, and Zones of Regulation™ and could be used as a fun way to review and master the curriculum material. Children can work on learning any corresponding co
PreK - 3rd
School Counseling
Also included in: Emotions Coloring Books Bundle | Social-Emotional Learning & Feelings
Fine Motor Stations or Caddies - Series 1
Fine Motor Stations or Caddies - Series 1 digital download includes 25 fun and engaging fine motor activities for children using simple and easily obtained materials which can be found in most any school or home. The activities are designed to be intrinsically motivating and quickly engaging maintaining a child's interest so they do not even realize they are "working" on fine motor skills! The book contains suggestions and modifications for activities so as to be inclusive of many skill levels.
PreK - 4th
b and d Reversal Reference Posters & Desk-top Cards
Letter Reversal Reference Posters & Desk-top Cards - b and d are exactly what you need if you have students who struggle to recognize and write lowercase letters b and d! In this resource, you will find reference posters and desk-top reference cards to help children learn strategies with use of mnemonic cues to assist with recognizing and writing these two problematic letters. You can use the visual mnemonic posters to help the entire class or use the desk-top cards for individual students. The
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Handwriting
FREE Setting the Table Mini-Bundle
Setting the Table Sheets are designed to provide children with easy-to-use and easy-to-read table setting templates. These sheets come in full color and black and white versions as well as two different sizes of 8.5" x 11" and 8.5" x 14”. Setting the table is an important life skill for all children to learn. These templates will help prompt children in how to complete a simple table setting which includes the following: placematplatecupnapkinforkknifespoon Additionally, there is a template of
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Pattern Block Fine Motor Alphabet & Number Cards | A-Z Upper & Lowercase + 0-9
Build Letters & Numbers with Pattern Blocks – Hands-On Fine Motor Fun for Learning the ABCs & 123s!Build coordinated hands and confident learners with this engaging set of Build-It Letter & Number Cards using pattern blocks - a hands-on way to strengthen fine motor skills while reinforcing early letter and number recognition. Each card invites children to construct letters and numbers using colorful pattern blocks, turning learning into an active, visual, and purposeful experience. What’s Inclu
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Alphabet, Handwriting, Numbers
Copy Me! Hand Gym Mats | Bilateral Coordination & Motor Planning
Copy Me! Hand Gym Mats – Bilateral Coordination & Motor PlanningMake movement meaningful with Copy Me! Hand Gym Mats, a fun and functional way to build bilateral coordination, motor planning, crossing midline, attention, sequencing, and memory through simple, engaging hand exercises. This versatile resource is ideal for classrooms, inclusion settings, therapy sessions, centers, and brain breaks. These hand gym mats feature patterns that progress from easy to more complex, allowing you to differe
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Not Subject Specific
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Experience
Welcome to COTA Life, your destination for high-quality digital resources tailored for teachers and therapists. Our tools support essential childhood skills related to occupational therapy, including fine and gross motor, visual motor, self-help, and handwriting. Our multi-skill resources, therapeutic games, and home program tools are designed to be engaging, effective, and easy to integrate into your sessions and lessons addressing much needed skill development.
Explore COTA Life today and transform your teaching and therapy sessions!
Teaching style
I'm Regina, a certified occupational therapy assistant with 28 years of pediatric experience, including 21 years in the public school system and currently 6 years in a pediatric outpatient clinic. As a contributing author to The OT Toolbox with experience contributing to Learning Without Tears and Very Well Magazine, I aim to provide valuable tools and ideas that enhance your treatment toolbox while helping children thrive and reach their full potential.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Awarded N.C. Exceptional Children's Teacher of the Year 2013-14.
Earned the National Board of Occupational Therapy Practice Area of Emphasis in OT Specialty Pediatrics.
My own education history
A.A.S. Occupational Therapy Assistant at Caldwell Community College.
General Studies at Appalachian State University.
Additional biographical information
* Contributing author with The OT Toolbox.
* Past contributing author with Learning Without Tears.
^Past contributing author with Very Well Magazine.
* Editor for Functional Skills for Kids OT & PT Team - The Toileting Book.
* Editor for The OT Toolbox - Cooking Up Skills Cookbook.
*Editor for Growing Hands-On Kids - From Lines to Letters to Words Book.
* Contributing publisher of OT resources at Your Therapy Source and The OT Toolbox.
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