Activity of the Week!

This is my "activity of the week", although I cannot promise that this will become a trend. I came up with this activity because my toddler pt likes multi-step activities, and the end portion of it is an activity I knew that she liked. This little shin-dig works on motor skills, body part identification, color identification, and following directions.

Materials: 

• small egg shakers
• 2 boomwhackers
• bucket
• your lovely singing voice

My little ditty: (numbers are scale degrees)
1                 2   2       3    1     1  5     5      4        3  2   1
(Pt's name) has a (color) shaker to shake, shake all around.
 3       3   3   3       3                                 4     4  4   4      4                        
Shake it by your (head, toes, belly, etc), shake it by your (same as before),
5       5   4     3    2     1
now send that shaker home!

Procedure:

1. Put the eggs on the floor next to pt.
2. Sing song.
3. Right before, "send that shaker home", pick up bucket or drum upside down and hold boomwhacker so it is a tunnel from the pt to the bucket.
4. Motion for pt to send egg down the boomwhacker and into the bucket.
5. Jump a little when it the egg hits the bottom of the bucket.
6. Repeat until all eggs are in the bucket.

This little game did wonders for the pt I worked with. It got said pt to follow directions to shake the egg all around because the pt LOVED sending it down that tube and the sound it made when it hit the bucket. There are lots of ways to extend or adapt this activity. You can also get the pt to send two eggs down two different boomwhackers at the same time.

So... yeah! I hope you liked my activity and get a chance to use it at some point.