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Activities to do with your special friend

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Ideas from Volunteers
Remy Feldman & Hannah Moore-taught their friend about the Tsunami through a "wave theme". They made wave bottles with blue ink, water and baby oil and then painted pictures of the waves.

Activities to do with your special friends
(suggested by: Therapist, Ailene Tisser)

Games recommended for Motor Skills:

1) Take cheap hair gel and put it in bags and have them put beads in the bags and smoosh it.
2) make goop
3) blanket rides- pull each other in the blankets
4) jump from cushion to cushion
5) animal walk-walk across the room like different animals (examples: monkey, bear, crab)
6) twister
7) obstacle course- crawl over rope, jump over and under rope
8) talk like a robot and move around like a robot
9) simon says
10) freeze dance-put on music and have them dance and then freeze
11) musical chairs

Games recommended for Visual Perception:

Candyland
Headache
Take 5
Pallino
Perfection
Chutes & Ladders Chess
Honey bee Tree
Simon Boggle
Pizza Party
Superfection
Stay Alive
Instant Replay 
Checkers
Parquetry
Mastermind
Tricky Fingers
Chinese Checkers
Trouble
Puzzles


For Older Kids:

Labyrinth
Capsella
Othello 
Bandu
Topple
Parcheesi
Magnashapes
 
Tip-It
Yahtze
Jenga

Card Games:
Concentration
Crazy Eights
Uno and Uno 99
Go Fish
For Writing Skills:
Crayons & Markers
Dot to Dot books
Maze books
Stencils
Squiggle pen
Fun Pads  

For Sensory Motor Development & Coordination:
Sit & Spin
Trapezes
Mr. Potato Head
Play Dough
Quadro
Tacticle Tillie
Toss Across
Sleds & Saucers
Jump Ropes
Crazy Foam
Roller Racer
Ufits Velcro Puppets
Hula Hoops
Therapy Putty
Swings
Frisbee
Twister
Foxtail
Wig Wag Worm 
Play tunnel

Arts & Crafts & Construction Toys:
Bristle Blocks
Lite Brite
Tinker Toys
Gears Go Around
Mosaic Tiles
Collages 
Leather Lacing
Wood projects
Lego Blocks
Magnetic Blocks
Mr. Twist
Weaving 
Shape Builders 

You can also look in the Friendship Circle pamphlet of "Over 101 Cool Things to do with your friends", that you got the first time you went volunteering.  
 

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