craft activities to do with young girl with intellectual disability?
Hi, I work with a young person who has an intellectual disability, at the moment we are just exploring all sorts of things she might enjoy to help her discover some passions and hobbies to improve her life enjoyment.
Some craft things i have thought of is maybe jewelry making and also drawing, but Im not sure what else. Just some more simple activites, because her capacity to do some things isnt all that high. But Im just stuck thinking of things.
Her mum has asked me if part of the work could invovle drawing, and if I could teach her some basic things to draw. So I have thought of flowers, I am not too bad at drawing some simple ones like roses and could teach her those, but what are some other basic things I could teach her to draw.
Any ideas would be great!
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HI!
I know nothing about drawing sorry but….
I do know few young persons with a similar disability
and they all LOVE to sculpt using the polymer clay.
Animals….comical characters, flowers…even little fairies!
One of them actually is VERY talented with it all,
no one just knew it …. before we tried ….
Great job that you are helping her !
hugs,
Shateal
Tons of craft ideas here: http://newfreebooks.com Click “web research” and then follow the “Do anything” links. An enormous selection to choose from.
Try a craft store. Look around and maybe you will get some other ideas. They have beginner drawing activities. I also think the jelwery thing was a great idea!! good luck
I love that sculpting idea above!
You might also try water colour painting. Supplies are pretty basic and they don’t stain.
you could teach her to draw simple figures of humans / flowers / animals / birds/ butterflies/ clouds / houses / mountains/ boats/ etc etc. [you can use any of her favorite story book or rhyme characters & settings too - just keep the sketching lines simple initially].
do these on thick or card paper. let her color them too.
then cut them all out and glue some satay sticks or stiff straw behind to make stick hand-held puppets.
Or pierce holes towards the top & tie strings to get string puppets.
now you can stage the story or rhyme or any ‘original’ play ….
thus you have drawing, some intellectual association [if using fav story], as well as a hands-on activity & self-expression in play…
hope this helps
all the best
I saw a demonstration yesterday of felting little beads out of wools. The wool can be dyed with Kool Aide. One just puts a bit of soap and warm water on the wool and rolls it into a ball as large as needed for the project. Then after allowing the “wool beads to dry they were strung on bracelet threads or wires with other items such as beads and charms.
The lady was also making really cute coasters for glasses in a small bowl to make the size diameter and a potato masher to felt the wool down. Again a bit of diswashing detergent and warm water then mash the wools together for a while til the item is as thick as one wishes then allowing it to dry on a grid so it gets air all around it.
It does take a bit of time for these things to dry, like about 24 hours or a bit more.
make the felt in thin sheets, cut out flower petals and leaves then felt these flowers onto another mat of wool for some really cool coasters, and other nice giftie things.
I used to work with disabled young adults and they can do all sorts of craft. Loom knitting is simple if you are in Australia you can buy a set at Spotlight but in USA they are called Knifty Knitters. You can copy the outlines of some animals in coloring books or buy plastic stencils onto colored felt and she can glue them to card and make her own cards. She can glue other shapes and tinsel and little pom poms on them. She could also be taught to do a basic blanket stitch and join 2 felt pieces together and put pot pouri in them. Tie or sew ribbon on them to hang or give for drawer sachets.Mosaic art is also something that can help stimulate her and beading. Also basic pottery by slab or coil method is a great thing to do.There is really no limit its all up to your imagination.
You can try making things out of salt dough.
2 parts flour;1part salt; 1 part warm water
knead the dough till it is like play-dough; roll it out 1/4″ thick
I use cookie cutters to make all kinds of shapes
let the dough dry for 48 hours, OR bake at about 200 for a couple hours
when the shapes are dry, you can paint them
they make great Christmas ornaments if you poke a hole in them for a ribbon before you let them dry