COLEMOI UK Ltd

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  • Thrive Series: What the OT Told Us.

    🎨 As an occupational therapist, fostering independence in daily living skills (ADLs) is one of the most rewarding parts of my work. Teaching a child how to manage buttons, zips, and fasteners isn’t just about getting dressed—it’s about building confidence, fine motor strength, and hand-eye coordination! 🚀

    That is why I highly recommend checking out the ✨Activity Apron (Romeo and Juliet)✨ by Colemoi UK Ltd.

    What makes this resource truly brilliant from a therapeutic and learning standpoint is its unique design:

    🧩 The Perfect Montessori Transition: Traditional Montessori dressing frames are fantastic for initial, static learning on a flat surface. However, children often struggle to transfer that skill to their own bodies. This activity apron serves as the perfect bridge! A child can start by manipulating it flat on a table, and then transition to wearing it—facing a real-world, dynamic situation in a low-stress format.

    🌿 Frustration-Free Rehabilitation: Because the apron is easy to take on and off, if a child experiences sensory overload or frustration, they can simply remove it and continue their practice back on the table. It completely shifts the psychological weight of “getting dressed” into a playful, self-paced exploration.

    💪 Targeted Motor Development: The layered design addresses nearly every fastening type a child will encounter. It actively builds the small intrinsic muscles of the hand, refines the pincer grasp, and enhances bi-lateral coordination—all essential foundations for writing, using cutlery, and independent self-care.

    Whether you are working in a clinical setting, a classroom, or supporting your child’s learning journey at home, this tool transforms a daily struggle into a stress-free game! 🌟

    👉 Check it out here:

  • How can you develop fine motor skills, logic, spatial awareness, and autonomy with a single tool used for five years in preschool or kindergarten? 🧩✨

    How can you develop fine motor skills, logic, spatial awareness, and autonomy with a single tool used for five years in preschool or kindergarten? 🧩✨

    The challenge for any early childhood professional is to offer tools that are durable, scalable, and stimulating. This is where GOSTOP comes in—it’s not just a board; it’s an educational box designed to support children aged 3 to 6 throughout their development.

    Why bring GOSTOP into your classroom or facility?

    ✅ Exceptional Versatility: Featuring a repositionable (and washable!) SBS adhesive pad, GOSTOP allows children to instantly fix objects in place: puzzle pieces, tangrams, tokens, or building blocks. Pieces stay put, allowing children to complete their models without frustration or accidental spills.

    ✅ One Tool, Endless Possibilities: Whether for logic activities, geometry, or visual discrimination, the board adapts to all your pedagogical goals. Even better: the pad is removable! You can attach it vertically to a whiteboard, window, or tiled wall, adding a new spatial dimension to playtime.

    ✅ A Durable, Sustainable Investment: Designed to last, COLEMOI products come with a 5-year guarantee. By choosing GOSTOP, you are opting for a robust tool that meets strict safety standards and fits perfectly into a circular economy approach.

    🚀 Support Children’s Autonomy

    The GOSTOP system empowers children to progress at their own pace, strengthening their concentration, hand-eye coordination, and logical reasoning on a surface designed to make their learning journey easier.

    Are you ready to transform your pedagogical approach with a tool that grows with your students?

    Visit the online shop !

    or

    📩 Contact us at colemoi@colemoi.co.uk to request a quote or for more information.

    How can you develop fine motor skills, logic, spatial awareness, and autonomy with a single tool used for five years in preschool or kindergarten?

  • Warehouse clearance

    📢 BIG NEWS: London Grays Depot Clearance! 📦✨

    To improve our logistics operations and better organize our services, we are officially closing our London Grays depot.

    Instead of moving everything, we want to give back to our amazing community!

    We are giving away all remaining educational resources for FREE! 🎁📚

    Only one condition: post your feedback on social media after trying it out. Positive (hopefully!) or negative (we’ll learn from it)!

    🎒 Who is this for?
    Schools & Teachers looking to stock up their classrooms.

    Families & Parents looking for fun, educational materials for their children.

    📅 Event Details:
    When: June 5th & 6th

    Where: London Grays, RM20 4DB

    ⚠️ MANDATORY BOOKING REQUIRED ⚠️

    To ensure a smooth and safe pickup for everyone, you must reserve your spot in advance.

    📧 How to book:
    Email us at colemoi@colemoi.co.uk to secure your materials!

    First come, first served.

    Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to grab high-quality resources for free!

    What is available ?

    📚 Resources available include:

    ✅ Activity Aprons (Teacher’s Choice Award – USA)

    ✅ Geocube Magnetic Construction Sets

    ✅ Gostop Group Sets

    ✅ Tornikotor Construction Sets

    Perfect for supporting:

    ✨ Independent learning

    ✨ Fine motor skills

    ✨ Creativity and imagination

    ✨ Early STEM development

    ✨ Collaborative play

    💚 Completely FREE

    More details on the online shop

    Warehouse clearance

  • Have your say!

    📌 UK makers are being buried under regulations designed for multinational mass production.

    And if nothing changes, many small British toy brands simply won’t survive.

    ✅ The DPP consultation is STILL open in the UK.

    ✅ Have your say !

    There is still time to fix this.

    Right now, the same administrative burden is being imposed on:

    👉 factories producing millions of units overseas,

    👉 and British artisans making a few hundred products a year in local workshops.

    ❌ That makes absolutely no sense.

    A local maker producing 500 handcrafted toys in the UK is not the same risk profile as anonymous mass production imported from the other side of the world.

    Yet both are increasingly treated the same.

    The consequence is brutal:

    ❌ rising compliance costs

    ❌ endless paperwork

    ❌ innovation slowed down

    ❌ local manufacturing discouraged before it even has the chance to grow

    And meanwhile, the biggest players absorb the cost without difficulty.

    If we genuinely want to rebuild British manufacturing, support local craftsmanship, and encourage new brands to emerge, then regulation must become proportionate.

    Our position is simple:

    For UK manufacturers producing fewer than 1500 units per year:

    ✔ simplified self-declaration of conformity

    ✔ documented technical files kept available for inspection

    ✔ traceability through production year marking

    ✔ fast local enforcement when needed

    ❌ Not lighter safety.

    ✅ Smarter regulation.

    Because today, small British creators are spending more time feeding bureaucracy than building products.

    We should be helping local makers grow into future exporters — not crushing them before they reach scale.

    The UK has an opportunity here:

    Build a framework that protects children WITHOUT destroying local industry.

    That would be real leadership.

  • Looking for an effective educational tool to develop children’s independence while saving time for educators?



    The DOMINIQUE activity apron helps children learn to dress and undress themselves without stress.

    🎯 An effective educational tool for developing independence

    The DOMINIQUE activity apron is a practical, sturdy, and versatile tool designed to support children aged 3 to 5 in learning essential skills like dressing themselves.

    It perfectly aligns with the educational objectives of schools and other educational settings: fine motor skills, coordination, concentration, and independence.

    ⭐ Key benefits for your organization

    ✔️ Time savings for staff
    By fostering independence, children learn to dress themselves more quickly, making life easier for teachers, teaching assistants, educators, and childcare providers.

    ✔️ Educational-grade materials
    This apron is inspired by the Montessori method, widely recognized for its effectiveness, while remaining more practical and economical than traditional dressing frames.

    ✔️ Intensive group use
    Designed to withstand daily use in classrooms, daycare centers, or clinics:
    Reinforced fabrics
    Strong seams
    Professional-grade fasteners

    ✔️ Suitable for independent learning activities
    Easy to integrate into dedicated spaces: independent learning corners, guided workshops, fine motor skills courses, and individual support sessions.

    🔧 Professional product features
    1 ergonomic apron suitable for children aged 3 to 5
    Variety of closures: zipper, buttons of different sizes, snaps, and Velcro.
    Fully washable and built to last
    Can be handled on the user (more motivating and realistic than rigid frames)
    Compact size: easy to store, transport, and distribute during workshops
    Complies with UK and EN71-3 safety standards and the European REACH directive.

    🎓 Ideal for:
    ✔️ Preschools
    Independence workshops
    Fine motor skills courses
    Morning arrival periods or practical life workshops

    ✔️ Daycare centers, micro-nurseries, …
    Daily educational activities
    Gradual learning to dress

    ✔️ Occupational therapists & psychomotor therapists
    Working on grasping, coordination, and motor planning
    Remedial tool for children with difficulties

    ✔️ Childminders
    Practical and rewarding early learning activities
    Easy-to-store, robust, and versatile equipment

    📈 Benefits for your facility
    ✔️ Improves children’s overall independence
    ✔️ Develops fine motor skills through structured activity
    ✔️ Reduces children’s dependence on others in daily routines
    ✔️ Enhances the team’s teaching practices
    ✔️ Sustainable investment and cost-effective
    ✔️ Can be used in small groups, individual workshops, or independently

    Visit https://colemoilondon.sumupstore.com/ or send us email at colemoi@colemoi.com

  • To learn to dress and undress without stress

    Every small gesture matters.

    And for a 3-year-old child, managing to button a shirt, pull up a zipper, or fasten a buckle… is a huge victory.

    A victory that says: “I’m growing. I can do it on my own.”

    DOMINIQUE activity apron is not just an educational tool.

    It’s a little companion that supports your child through one of the most important steps of early childhood: learning to dress independently, at their own pace, with joy.

    🌟 What you will love

    💛 Watching your child feel proud

    That smile when they say, “I did it!” is priceless. Each success boosts their confidence and nurtures their sense of achievement.

    💛 Smoother, calmer morning routines

    Less stress, less frustration… Your child practices while playing and gets dressed more easily each day.

    💛 Encouraging independence with kindness

    No pressure, no comparison. With the apron, your child can practice at their own pace, in a safe and comforting environment.

    💛 A smart toy, away from screens

    Simple, hands-on, and truly useful. It keeps little hands busy, builds fine motor skills, and strengthens concentration.

    👶 A product designed for the small steps that help children grow

    ✔ Soft, colorful, and pleasant to touch

    ✔ Multiple closures inspired by real-life clothing

    ✔ Durable, washable, built to last

    ✔ Can be worn like a real apron — making the experience even more exciting for children

    ✔ Safe according to britsih safety standards and REACH directive.

    🥰 The message you’re giving your child

    “I believe in you. You can do it.”

    To know more, visit Colemoi online shop :

  • Stereognosis

    Stereognosis : does it sounds familiar to you ?

    Stereognosis, or tactile gnosis, is recognizing and identifying the characteristics of an object only by soliciting touch (tactile perceptions) as well as the position, weight,… (proprioceptive information) of an object.

    What’s the point ?

    Each of us, on a daily basis, often mechanically uses our ability to use or recognize objects without seeing them.

    It is the handle of the fork that we take without looking at it, the keys that we seek in the pocket, …

    Tactile discrimination, motor control, etc. are thus developed and allow ease in everyday life and the ability to then perform more complex actions.

    Early detection of difficulties in these areas will then allow a specialist to provide appropriate interventions.

    The mystery bag is one of the tools for developing stereognosis.

    But… what is this mystery bag?

    In the shape of a T-shirt but closed in its widest part by a zipper and sewn for the shortest part, the mystery bag has two sleeves in which the hands are introduced.

    Having previously entered the widest part of a GOSTOP board (with an adhesive pad) and, for example, the pieces of a tangram, the player must recognize the pieces by touch and match a model on this board without seeing pieces.

    The adhesive pad on which the player positions the pieces avoids an untimely movement of the pieces, which allows the realization to be removed from the mystery bag without the pieces moving.

    The board defines the playing surface and also facilitates tactile tracking.

    Special offer : buy one set, get one free for £10 only.

    For £10, you will receive

    1 mystery bag

    1 GOSTOP tray with its adhesive pad

    1 wooden tangram

    Free online access to download the playing cards

    All packaged in a fabric bag.

    The mystery bag can of course be used for many purposes related to tactile activities and be seen as an additional playing occupation to the Montessori curriculum.

    For instance, during a math lesson, recognize the geometrical shape only by touching.

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    COLEMOI UK Ltd online store has moved !

    Visit the online shop !