Game manual

Target

There are placed some large white papers or big cardboards in the middle of the table. The first step of this activity is to paint this papers or cardboards in a color that they both love. They can paint it in one color or in multiple colors, but they can also decide to paint some figures and images on at.

After that they have painted it, they need to let it dry. During the fact that it is drying, they can start with the second part of the activity. The parents and the toddler needs to pick some materials in different textures. They can choose as many materials as they like to work with after the paper is dry.

When the papers are dry, they can put the materials that they have chosen on the paper of board with a lot of glue. They can choose their own order and they can choose how much of a material that they are going to use, but they have to take care of the fact that it needs to be tight.

At the end they can feel together at the wall.

Variants

  • There can be worked in a specific theme like “the nature”. Than they have to use materials that have to do with that theme like wimps that are representing the clouds, fake grass for the underground, felt for the trees ... .
  • They can also make a feeling blanked or feeling pillows out of different materials that they have to sewing to each other.

The intention of this activity is to let the parents and the toddler cooperate about an activity around feeling. They need to get used to the feeling of different materials and they have to learn what they like to feel and what they doesn’t like to feel. Parents can use the materials that their kid likes to feel at home.

 

 

Position on the wire

This activity can be put on the “pulling the wire” position because the toddler can show his feelings during this activity. The toddler and the parents can show their emotions by feeling at the wall. Because they are doing this, they can get an idea of what the other ones likes or doesn’t like.

 

Part of the parent

Part of the toddler

The parents needs to search different materials together with their kid that they can use for the feeling wall. It’s important to let the kid explore and develop what they like to feel. It’s important that the parents is present for the kid when the toddler would get scared or when the toddler would get hurt. The parents can give the right example to the toddler by feeling at the materials himself and by rubbing on the arms or back of the toddler with soft materials. When the parents would do this with soft materials, this will give a feeling of trust and involvement to the kid.

The toddler needs to explore and needs to dare feeling at the materials. The kid needs to explore on his own, but needs to have the opportunity to fall back on the parents in case he would hurt himself. It’s the intention that the toddler can go on discovery by feeling some things. The kid needs to communicate against the parents what he likes to feel and what he doesn’t likes to feel. When the kid is communicating, the parents can react on this and this can lead to a system of action- reaction.

 

Necessities

Evaluation

  • Large white paper or big cardboard
  • Paint and brushes
  • Blindfold
  • Materials for making the feelwall (bottle caps, wimps, rode, bark, grass, sand, feathers, sponges, sandpaper, playmat, socks, buttons, balloons, wool ...)

 

At the end of the activity there had to be a short moment of evaluation. During the evaluation it is the intention that the parents and the toddler are going to answer some question by holding a specific material in the air that they have used by making the feeling wall. There will be asked some questions like “Did you liked it?”, “Which material did you loved the most?”, “Which material didn’t you liked at all?”, “How do you feel after this activity?”, “Did you trust the other ones while you where blindfolded?”, ... . When a question had been asked, they have to put a specific material in the air. When they liked it, they have to put a soft thing in the air, when they doesn’t liked it they have to put a hard material in the air. How softer the material is, how more fun it was, how harder the material is, how less fun it was.

 

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