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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 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 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
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
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
Play Dough Hands Game Boards
Playdough Game Boards digital download includes 12 no-prep games to print and play to encourage fine motor skill development and hand strengthening throughout the year. Also includes BONUS uppercase and lowercase playdough letter cards!If your students are tired of routine fine motor practice, add these FUN games to your toolkit to keep children engaged while improving their skills at the same time! How the Playdough Game Boards Work:Immediately download the 32 page PDF document that includes 1
PreK - 4th
Also included in: Motor & Emotions Occupational Therapy Game Board Bundle
Visual Motor Alphabet Picture Mazes - Moderately Complex Version
NO PREP Visual Motor Alphabet Picture Mazes - Moderately Complex Version is a resource that is a print and go activity pack containing 26 (A-Z) moderately complex mazes and a word writing box at the bottom with letter size discrimination. These are great to use with older kiddos and there are many ways you could have a child complete them while working on fine motor control, visual motor skills, problem solving, visual attention, and visual spatial skills. First have them complete with their f
2nd - 5th
Fine Motor Play Dough Mats
Play Dough Mats 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 help you do that! There are two uses: 1. Have children complete the mats by simply rolling play d
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Fine Motor Play Dough Mats Bundle
No Prep Alphabet Coloring Book
This NO PREP A-Z Alphabet Coloring Book makes the learning of coloring skills, vocabulary and letters sounds fun and effective for kiddos. Each letter of the alphabet is represented with an upper and lower case letter, 5 pictures and 5 words on each page. This resource is completely in black and white making it easy to just print and go! If you laminate the pages, you can turn them into a fun game board as well. Motor Skills: help a child color each letter and picture within their boundarie
PreK - 3rd
Monthly Fine Motor Game Boards
Fine Motor Game Boards includes 12 no-prep game boards to print and play to encourage fine motor skill development throughout the year. That's one game board for every month of the year! Are you and your students tired of routine fine motor practice? Add these FUN games to your fine motor toolkit to keep children engaged while improving their skills at the same time! These games are great to use during individual and group occupational therapy, centers in the regular and special education class
PreK - 4th
Also included in: Motor & Emotions Occupational Therapy Game Board Bundle
Prewriting Game Boards (Color & B/W)
Prewriting Game Boards includes 12 color and 12 black & white no-prep game boards to print and play to encourage prewriting skills through the year. Also includes BONUS 6 pages of prewriting shapes to trace. If your kiddos are tired of routine prewriting practice, add these FUN games to your toolkit. Children will be engaged while improving their skills at the same time! How the Prewriting Game Boards Work:Immediately download the 21 page PDF document that includes 12 game boards, materials
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Motor & Emotions Occupational Therapy Game Board Bundle
Shape Train Track Mats
Shapes Train Track Mats includes 10 amazing Shape Track Mats that a child can use to chug-chug around in order to learn or reinforce shape formation skills while working on fine motor and visual perceptual skills. They are easy to use as you simply have the child roll a train along the train tracks for each shape and work on correct start point and sequencing for each shape formation. The following shapes are included: circlesquaretrianglerectangleovalrhombushexagonoctagonpentagontrapezoidSimply
PreK - 1st
Handwriting
Year Round Play Dough Game Boards
Year Round Play Dough Board Games includes 12 no-prep games and also includes 96 play dough cards to print and play to encourage fine motor skill development and hand strengthening throughout the year. If your students are tired of routine fine motor and visual motor practice, add these FUN games to your toolkit to keep children engaged while improving their skills at the same time! How the Year Round Playdough Game Boards Work:Immediately download the 41 page PDF document that includes 12 game
PreK - 4th
Also included in: Motor & Emotions Occupational Therapy Game Board Bundle
No Prep Trace and Color Fun Shapes
Trace and Color Fun Shapes is a fun and motivating way to work on prewriting skills with children! This activity packet uses fun face shapes to facilitate a child's motivation to work on tracing, coloring, and drawing while also working on necessary fine and visual motor skills. The simple to moderately complex shapes give children the opportunity to work on the following: fine motor control and precisioneye-hand coordinationtool controlgrasp patternstool use fluiditysequencing skillsThis no p
PreK - 1st
Fine Motor Happy Shapes Hunt
Fine Motor Happy Shapes Hunt includes 10 full color and 10 black and white worksheets to practice fine motor skills, visual discrimination and visual scanning skills. This resource has: one full direction page with 10 fine motor suggestions to mark the happy shapes pictures. Children can use push pins, dot markers, play dough, tongs, stampers, etc. to mark the shapes.the 10 happy shapes picture worksheets include circle, hexagon, square, rhombus, octagon, oval, pentagon, triangle, rectangle, and
PreK - 2nd
Spot the Different Emotion - St. Patrick's Day
Spot the Different Emotion Clip Cards - St. Patrick's Day Series is a holiday card set that is an excellent resource for working on visual discrimination skills combined with fine motor strengthening and bilateral coordination when using clothespins to clip the one picture that is different on each card. Don't have clothespins? That's ok, use some paper clips! Emotional faces are utilized as the visual discrimination element of the cards. This series has four sets of clip cards to include: le
PreK - 1st
Back to School Fine Motor & Visual Motor Skills Packet
NO PREP and DIFFERENTIATED Back to School Fine Motor and Visual Motor Skills Packet contains many fine motor, visual motor and visual perceptual activities which can be used during occupational therapy individual and group sessions as well as the classroom and home school settings. A fun way to celebrate the return to school for kids and teachers! Pick your differentiated pages, print and go! The following NO PREP and DIFFERENTIATED activity pages are included: 7 Cutting Puzzle Pages 7 Cutting
PreK - 1st
Themed Fine Motor Dice & Color Packet
Themed Fine Motor Dice and Color Packet - This collection of fine motor dice and color sheets is a FREE resource providing a fun practice opportunity for kiddos to work on their coloring and fine motor skills. What skills exactly? Well, to name a few, distal control, grasp pattern, bilateral coordination, pressure regulation, boundary awareness and color completion, and eye-hand coordination. So, go ahead and download this fun, seasonal/holiday-themed packet that you can use often in your class
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Dough Shape Activity Mats
Dough Shape Activity Mats includes multisensory shape mats containing 14 shapes and 4 different versions for children to practice creating shapes with play dough while incorporating tracing! These mats are simple, no-prep activities that you can print and play! Use these fun activity mats to encourage fine motor skills, visual perception, shape recognition, and hand strengthening. How can you use these fun activity mats? Use the different versions of activity boards to practice creating, ident
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NO PREP Trace and Color Crab Shapes
No Prep Trace and Color Crab Shapes 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 fun bee shapes to facilitate a child's motivation to work on tracing, coloring, and drawing while also working on necessary fine and visual motor skills. Within the packet you will find a pag
PreK - 2nd
Dough Stick Figure Mats
Dough Stick Figure Mats 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 help you do that! There are two uses: 1. Have children complete the mats by simply rolling p
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About the store
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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