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Students were challenged to crumple the tissue into tight balls. This was good for fine motor. This was a great activity for learning to name colors and counting how many balls they stuffed into the stockings.
My highly sensory student started out painting on paper, but discovered it was more fun to paint herself! On a warm day, I just let her do it and changed her wet clothes afterwards.
I recently got Ukuleles from “Guitars in the Classroom”. We practice “hugging” the Uke and passing to partners. After that, we “strum” then pass. Students are encouraged to practice saying, “My turn, your turn” to help them with transitioning.
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.We’ve used scarves activities a few times since April. The students love it every time! We also use the scarves to make PE more interesting. We stretch up high and bend down low. Move to the right, move to the left, etc. We dance the scarves to music with a student leading. Like Maritza pointed out, it’s great for building language and getting the kids to relax and verbalize more. Even the most timid, love this activity.
We did the scarves activity sitting on the carpet since I intended for them to stand and move around after exploration. Students were encouraged to explore for quite some time. They loved the texture and sheerness of the netting. When they were done exploring on their own, I had them stand up and throw the scarves in the air and catch with head, fingers, elbows, etc. Then we rolled the netting into balls and were surprised at how much faster the scarves fell. We tried to throw the scarves high enough to hit the ceiling. It was impossible, but fun! Then we moved the scarves to Go and Stop (music). The students loved the activity!!
