This October, we’re celebrating Physical Therapy Awareness Month by highlighting the power of movement, play, and early intervention.

For the children and families we serve, everyday items can become tools for building strength, balance, coordination, mobility, confidence, and independence. Your donation helps our therapists turn play into progress.

Every item on our wishlist has a purpose—and every donation helps a child take another step toward reaching their goals.

🧡 $10 — Little Tools. Big Steps.

Colored socks — Help children learn to alternate feet while practicing stairs.
Painter’s tape — Creates visual lines and pathways for movement activities.
Sticky notes — Simple visual cues for games, activities, and movement practice.
Bubbles — Encourage reaching, tracking, standing, balance, and movement through play.
Tummy-time mirrors — Motivate little ones to lift their heads and explore their surroundings.
O-Balls — Easy-to-grasp balls that encourage reaching, grasping, rolling, and movement.

💙 $15 — Encouraging Independence

Step stool — Supports safe practice with stepping, reaching, and climbing.
Bubble guns — Turn movement practice into motivating, joyful play.
Bean bags — Encourage reaching, throwing, catching, balance, and coordination.

🧡 $20 — Building Strength & Confidence

Press-to-go toy cars — Encourage cause-and-effect learning, reaching, and movement.
Therapy ball — Supports balance, core strength, coordination, and body awareness.
Hip Helpers — Support positioning and movement during developmental activities.
Balance stepping stones — Build balance, coordination, and confidence with each step.
Water play mat — Encourage tummy time, reaching, weight shifting, and exploration.
Walking harness — Provides support while children practice developing walking skills.

💙 $25 — Finding Their Balance

Wobble cushion — Encourages core strength, balance, and body awareness.
Sock Shoe walking shoes — Designed to support little feet as children develop walking skills.
Crawling tunnel — Makes crawling, reaching, and exploring fun and motivating.

🧡 $30 — Making Movement Fun

Foam play mat — Provides a safe surface for floor play, crawling, transitions, and movement activities.
Walking sandals — Help support little feet during early walking and mobility practice.

💙 $35 — Building, Reaching & Connecting

Squigz — Encourage grasping, pulling, reaching, coordination, and problem-solving through play.

🧡 $45 — On the Move

Push walker — Helps children practice standing, stepping, balance, and early walking.
Stride Rite walking shoes — Support developing feet during walking and mobility activities.

💙 $50 — Big Moves

Indoor slide — Builds climbing, stepping, balance, coordination, and confidence.
Tricycle — Encourages leg strength, coordination, balance, and motor planning.

🧡 $80 — Helping Children Reach Their Potential

UpSeat — Provides supportive positioning to help children participate and engage in activities.
Soft play bolster — Supports strengthening, positioning, balance, transitions, and gross-motor play.
TOT Collar for Torticollis — Supports positioning for children receiving therapy for torticollis, as directed by their therapy team.

CONTRIBUTE NOW

Every donation 💙helps create a little more possibility.

For some children, progress looks like taking their first steps.
For others, it might be lifting their head, sitting independently, reaching for a toy, climbing a step, or gaining the confidence to explore.

This October, help us celebrate movement—and the therapists who help children discover what they can do.

Give a little. Move a lot. Grow together.
🧡 Easterseals Rehabilitation Center

Every Step Counts

Physical Therapy Awareness Month