I teach Primary ID-M students (it may make a difference in student engagement). My students loved painting with water and my highly sensory student with the shortest attention span was engaged and working independently for up to ten minutes at a time! She spent a lot of time painting herself so make sure it’s a warm day. Lol.
Overall though, the majority of my class likes the scarves activities. I got bulk netting and cut into two foot squares. The students loved exploring-stretching, floating, throwing, catching, etc. Students discovered that the scarves floated when the netting was open, but fell much faster when scrunched into balls… Cool science lesson that wasn’t planned. As an academic tool, scarves lesson can be used to build vocabulary by catching the scarves with different parts of the body, prepositions, counting, measuring how far they throw the scarves,etc. As a PE tool, it’s a lot more fun to dance and do exercises with the scarves to fast or slow, go and stop music. Students resistant to clean up or transitioning away from the activity seen to do better when asked to be helpers. Many of my students have vastly improved in transition skills because they are helping hold the bag or box during clean up. Another fun way to clean up is to scrunch the scarves and throw them into the container at the end of the activity. The students love it, and don’t realize they transitioned until it’s already done! Just make sure to have something else ready right after.

I found the tape mural activity to be one of the best activities. It got each student involved taking turns and creating something together. Making the wands and dancing with them was also a pretty successful EASE lesson.