Costume Play
Setting: classroom, daycare or playroom
Materials:
Old clothes or
fun outfits
Bin
Costume Jewelry
Hats
Makeup
Instructions: Put all the materials in a bin and allow
for the individual to play and use their imagination to create scenarios.
Creation of a setting for them to perform could be beneficial such as telling them to imagine they are in a school
setting.
Purpose: This activity allows for play, emotional
expression and imagination. Emotional expression is exercised in the costumes or clothing combinations that they chose to wear. Play and imagination are essential in achieving
roles and understanding different roles in life and problem solving to what the
role may be which are helpful in the future when these roles and scenarios are
not imagined. Perhaps giving verbal or written scenarios such as that they are
at school can promote the installation of roles and what types of problems that
would have to be solved would help lead the play in one direction. This
activity also allows for better gross motor skill and range of motion of both
upper and lower extremities is demonstrated through constant putting on and
taking off clothes. Balance is also exercised through the need to both sit and
stand in order to change clothes. Fine motor skills are also exercised through the
use of putting on makeup and the buttoning and zipping of clothes. Fine motor
control that is needed in writing and dressing ADLs.
Your Therapy
Source Inc. (October 15, 2009). Costumes May Do the Trick.
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