mummiez & daddiez magazine May - June Issue 2013
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As its Autism awareness month we decided to do an activity<br />
adapted for children who have autism. We hope you find<br />
this useful and enjoyable.<br />
Children with autism like to filter the light. They sometimes do this by “wagging” their<br />
fingers in front of their face. You may see them pulling out handfuls of grass and<br />
dropping it into the wind in front of their face.<br />
Find a space you can make in your room that will give them some things you can let them<br />
filter with. For example:<br />
Several under the bed plastic storage boxes<br />
and beach toys like shovels, buckets, plastic<br />
shapes etc.<br />
Here are some things to put in the boxes:<br />
1. Rice<br />
You can colour the rice by using food<br />
colouring and letting it dry over night<br />
spread out on wax paper before you put it in<br />
the box.<br />
2. Dry Beans<br />
3. Sand<br />
4. Easter grass (this is colourful and straw<br />
like)<br />
5. Shredded paper<br />
6. Christmas tinsel<br />
You can hide small toys in the boxes for the<br />
children to find. You could use large plastic<br />
gold coins and hide them in the boxes under<br />
all these items. The children love to pull<br />
them out and then hide them again.
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