The Clubhouse is the Behavioral Intervention Association's (http://www.bia4autism.org) after-school program. Once a week, children between the ages of 5 and 12, who have communication and social challenges, meet and engage in fun activities to practice different social skills. The Explorers focus on skills such as staying with the group, greetings, turn taking, participating independently in activities, and brief exchanges with peers. The Adventurers focus on skills such as initiating and maintaining conversations, perspective taking, and negotiating with peers.

BIA Clubhouse: Where Friendship Rules

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The Explorers: Bubbles Everywhere! (From Magnets to Magic Mixtures)

Art Project “Bubbles Everywhere”: We all worked together and  painted a big piece of paper with watercolors and used only colors that represented the sky.  After finishing our sky, we used round objects that first were dipped into paint to make bubble imprints on the paper. 


Magic Bubbles: We went outside and created bubbles using different devices such as strawberry baskets, pipe cleaners and gigantic wands. Some of us tried to make huge bubbles, other tried to create many small ones. We used a self-made bubble solution created out of water (2 1/2 quarts), liquid dish detergent (1 cup) and light corn syrup (1/2 cup).






 
We also continued to practice taking over group responsibilities. We have a Clubhouse job chart with assigned jobs, e.g., passing out brushes to our friends during art, handing out juice boxes for snack, setting the table. We especially like being the prize boss: At the end of each Clubhouse session, the prize boss is responsible for handing out the prizes to everyone who has earned the three Clubhouse friendship tokens.
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