Play ideas and activities to do along with children

Creative activities

These activities can include saving some of your old clothes and making a dress up case for your child with things like feather bowers, old hats, shirts etc to make these easier for a child, put Velcro on all the old clothes you gather and make sure everything is very bright and simulating to touch

You and your child could dress up as a

· Ghost in a big white sheet

· A post man with a postal bag

· A nurse

· A doctor

· A ballerina

A fashion show

Why not dress your dolls up and have a fancy dress show
with all your friends dressing the dolls or teddies as

· Ghosts

· Gaols

· Maid

· Nurse

· Action man

Outdoors

Leaf printing

Why not go to the park and pick up leaves and flowers and talk about how they feel and look and then go home with your child and do some leaf rubbings

By putting your leaves under some normal paper and rubbing over the left with chunky crayons

Ball games

Why not play

· Catch with the ball

· Basketball

· Football

· Why not try dribbling the ball to improve hand and eye coordination

Water games

Why not go swimming to your local swimming bath with your friend and family this is great fun and can help you build up your muscular strength

Slimy dough mixture

Why not make some messy gloup with water and cornflower mix together and then wow you have some gloup to play with and after you can through it away.

If you have any extra ordinary ideas to enhance the quality of play for young children with special needs why not drop us a line a share your ideas with other parent of extra ordinary children

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