A Guide to Brain-Boosting Body Play

The amazing brain-development effects of body play you can easily do every day!

Build your child's brain power by following play activities tailored to each age!

A guide with 140 age-specific play activities that support balanced motor, language, cognitive, emotional and social development.

Full of play methods and practical guidance for everyone from sensory integration therapists to parents who want to know how to play with their children.

A Guide to Brain-Boosting Body Play introduces body play (sensory play) that helps stimulate a child's brain according to each developmental stage, from age 1 in early childhood to age 8 in the early school years. It presents structured, programmed activities that can be done easily without special materials, and explains in plain terms why moving the body matters and which parts of the brain are stimulated and developed during sensory play.
The book was written by Song Woojin, who majored in occupational therapy, earned a doctorate in public health and has built extensive clinical, research and therapy experience, together with Lee Seungmin and Jung Dahyo, sensory integration therapists with rich field experience working closely with children. It is filled with content useful to everyone from sensory integration therapists to parents who want to know how to play with their children.
Each activity comes with preparation steps, instructions, and visual materials such as photos and videos so it is easy to follow, along with ways to adjust the difficulty and extension activities to try once a child gets used to it. The developmental areas and detailed elements stimulated by each activity are shown visually, and the book explains in detail how seemingly simple body play stimulates the brain and has a positive effect, revealing the relationship between the senses and the brain. Each age section (1-2, 2-3, 4-6 and 7-8) ends with a sample four-week home program effective for brain stimulation and sensory integration.
Since COVID-19, delays in children's physical development have been reported at serious levels, and concern about developmental gaps is growing. In this situation, the book will be a great help not only to parents who want to play with their children at home but also to sensory integration research institutes and developmental centers, and to kindergartens, elementary schools, libraries and institutions that want to offer sensory and brain-stimulation play.

Song, Woojin — Majored in occupational therapy at the Graduate School of Yonsei University and earned a doctorate in public health from the Department of Medicine at CHA University. Gained clinical experience as a pediatric occupational therapist at Bundang CHA Hospital, research experience at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Samsung Medical Center, and taught as a visiting professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Dongseo University. Currently works as a sensory integration therapist at a child development center, providing parent education, sensory integration therapy, occupational therapy and social skills group therapy.
Lee, Seungmin — Majored in occupational therapy at Dongnam Health University and earned a master's degree in ergonomic therapy from the Graduate School of Yonsei University. Worked as a pediatric occupational therapist at Bundang CHA Hospital and now works as a sensory integration therapist at a child development center, providing sensory integration therapy, daily living training and social skills group therapy. Jung, Dahyo — Majored in occupational therapy at Howon University and worked as a pediatric occupational therapist at Glory Hospital. Now works as a sensory integration therapist at a child development center, providing sensory integration therapy and social skills group therapy.

● 140 body play activities broken down by month and age
● Photos and activity videos (QR codes) that make activities easy to follow
● Made up only of activities that are easy to do at home
● Ways to adjust difficulty according to the child's adaptation, plus extension activities
● Clear and sufficient theory so that non-specialists can understand a child's senses and developmental stages
● 7 developmental keywords and 35 detailed keywords selected on the basis of brain science, presented visually
● A separate section explaining which senses are stimulated and developed during each activity
● Sample four-week home programs that deliver the effects of sensory integration therapy