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

Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Adventurers: Ocean in a Ziploc Bag (Summer Outdoor Fun)

Sensory/Art Project "Under the Sea": Today, we created our own ocean in a Ziploc bag:


1) We squirted blue hair gel into a Ziploc bag. Since this was tricky, we had to make sure to help each other, i.e., one of us was holding the Ziploc bag open while our partner squirted the gel in.
2) We added glitter, plastic sea creatures and foam fish to the hair gel. Everyone was mindful of sharing the materials fairly.
3) Next, we had to make sure to get the air out of the Ziploc bag and then we closed it and taped  the top with clear packaging tape.
4) We had a lot of fun moving the gel and sea creatures around in our bag.
5) We added some stickers such as dolphins, turtles, sharks to the outside of our bags.


6) We put our final product in another Ziploc bag, sealed the bag with tape and attached it to a poster board.
It was amazing  how different our oceans looked.


Water Balloon Beach Towel Toss: Practice makes perfect. Today, we played this popular game again. We used beach towels to launch water balloons into targets (hula hoops). Two or more of us were holding the corners of a beach towel and lifted it up in the air on the count of three. We really had to work together as a team to make it work.



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