Building Skills & Confidence These Winter School Holidays
School Holiday Group Programs | 29 june - 9 July 2026
Looking for a fun and meaningful way to support your child’s development these school holidays?
At Paediatric Potentials OT, our Winter School Holiday Groups are thoughtfully designed to strengthen social confidence, communication, emotional regulation, creativity, motor skills, problem-solving, and independence — all within a supportive and engaging environment.
Each program is facilitated by our experienced Occupational Therapists and tailored to help children build practical life skills through hands-on, interactive experiences.
We have a range of age-specific programs available across the school holidays, including:
Creative arts and hands-on activities
Cooking and life skills development
LEGO building and stop motion animation
Social confidence and friendship-building
Movement, mindfulness and focus-based activities
Programs are tailored across a variety of age groups from 4–18 years, with each group designed to suit specific developmental stages, interests and support needs.
Many of our previous holiday groups have been extremely well received, with several programs booking out early (some in the first 72 hours for the April Easter Program). That’s why we’re releasing our Winter programs ahead of time — giving families the opportunity to plan, organise supports, and secure their preferred sessions without last-minute stress.
Places remain limited to maintain quality therapist support and meaningful engagement for every participant.
Date: Monday, 29 June 2026
Time: 9:30am - 11:30am (2 hours)
Cost: $320
Ages: 9-11 years
ConnecKids – Social Group is a supportive and engaging group designed to help children build social confidence, strengthen communication skills, and develop positive peer relationships through fun, interactive activities. Using conversation, cooperative games and board games, children are supported to practise turn-taking, sharing ideas, problem-solving and connecting with peers in a safe and encouraging environment.
Guided by Occupational Therapists, participants will develop confidence participating in group discussions, expressing themselves, and navigating social situations while building meaningful friendships and having fun together.
Goal areas:
Building social confidence
Strengthening communication skills
Developing positive peer relationships
This group uses conversation, activities, and board games to help participants build friendships and social confidence.
This group may be a good fit if your child can:
Follow along with simple verbal instructions and group discussion (receptive language)
Express their thoughts, needs, or responses verbally or through a communication device (expressive language)
Engage with turn-based activities with some adult support
Bookings close 22 June 2026.
Date: Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Time: 9:30am - 11:30am (2 hours)
Cost: $360
Ages: 5-7 years
Join us for Little Chefs – Pancake Day, a fun and hands-on cooking group designed to build children’s confidence, independence and everyday life skills through making pancakes from scratch! Guided by Occupational Therapists, children will practise fine motor skills, following directions, sensory exploration, kitchen safety and social interaction while working together in a supportive and engaging environment. From cracking eggs and mixing batter to flipping pancakes and choosing toppings, this session encourages participation, teamwork and trying new foods — all while having fun in the kitchen!
Goals:
Fine Motor Skills
Children develop hand strength, bilateral coordination and fine motor control through egg cracking, whisking batter, spreading with a butter knife, cutting fruits and assembling food components.
Attention & Task Persistence
The session is structured around a single recipe with clear sequential steps, supporting children to sustain focus on a multi-step task from start to finish e.g., waiting for batter to rest, watching for bubbles before flipping, and taking turns at the pan.
Following Directions & Sequential Processing
Children follow illustrated step-by-step recipe cards with OT facilitation, building the ability to receive, process and act on multi-step instructions.
Meal Preparation & Life Skills Independence
This group program targets specific cooking and meal preparation skills such as cracking eggs, measuring and mixing ingredients, using knives and hot plate to cook pancake, with a recipe for children to replicate at home.
Sensory Exploration & Food Tolerance
Structured exposure to a range of textures, temperatures, smells and tastes in a low-pressure environment supports children to broaden their food tolerance.
Kitchen Awareness & Safety
Children learn to identify hazards (hot surfaces, sharp tools), practise safe tool use, and develop spatial awareness within a shared workspace.
Social Participation & Communication
Working alongside peers at shared stations, taking turns at the pan, and eating together builds peer connections and the ability to navigate a group environment.
Bookings close 22 June 2026.
Date: Friday, 3 July 2026
Time: 9:30am - 11:00am (1.5 hours)
Cost: $300
Ages: 4-18 years (All ages)
An engaging and inclusive creative group where participants of varying ages and abilities explore hands-on activities while strengthening key developmental skills.
Activities include:
Fruit stamped tote bags
Sand art
Air drying clay art
Mosaic art
Participants will build:
Fine motor control and hand strength
Coordination
Confidence
Social connection in a supportive space
Bookings close 22 June 2026.
Date: Monday, 6 July 2026
Time: 9:30am - 11:00am (1.5 hours)
Cost: $265
Ages: 5-6 years
Lego Junior is a fun and engaging small group for children aged 5–6 years that uses creative Lego-based activities to support social, emotional and developmental skills. Through building challenges and collaborative play, children will practise taking turns, sharing ideas, problem-solving and working together with peers. The group also targets fine motor development, attention and listening skills, emotional regulation and flexible thinking, while helping children build confidence navigating group interactions in a supportive and playful environment.
Goals:
Impulse Control: Supporting waiting for their turn, allowing peers to problem solving without jumping in.
Emotional Regulation: Supporting frustration tolerance, flexible thinking especially in a group setting.
Fine Motor Skills: Fine motor strength, precision, control, in-manipulation, bilateral coordination
Social Interactions: Developing collaboration and communication skills, navigating peer conflict, Shared enjoyment regarding creating Lego with peers, taking turns with roles.
Engagement and Attention: Staying on task, navigating mishearing instructions, following multiple step instructions, attention and focus.
Bookings close 29 June 2026.
Date: Tues 7th & Wed 8th July 2026 (2 Massive Days)
Time: 9:30am-11:30am (2 hours per day)
Cost: $520 per child
Age: 7-11 years
Where stories come to life, one brick at a time!
Join us for a fun and creative LEGO stop-motion animation group designed for kids aged 7–11! In Lego Stop Motion, children will build, animate, and tell their own stories using LEGO and iPads—while developing key life skills through play.
Children will work together to:
Build stories and scenes using LEGO®
Create stop-motion animations
Strengthen teamwork and communication
Practice problem-solving and flexible thinking
Develop executive functioning and social skills
Bookings close 29 June 2026.
Date: 9 July 2026
Time: 9:30am-11:30am (2 hours)
Cost: $280 per child
Age: 8-12 years
Move Your Body, Focus Your Mind is an Occupational Therapy facilitated group for children aged 8–12 years designed to support executive functioning skills through movement, mindfulness and brain-based activities. This engaging and evidence-informed program helps children strengthen attention, working memory, cognitive flexibility and self-regulation in a fun and supportive environment. Through physical activity i.e 20 mins circuit based exercises, mindfulness exercises and interactive brain games, children build confidence, improve focus and develop strategies to support learning, emotional regulation and everyday participation.
Goals:
Improve working memory and attentional from mindfulness
Improved mood and self-efficacy after exercise
Cognitive flexibility trained through brain games
Bookings close 29 June 2026.