Pipe Cleaner Hair Salon

Pipe Cleaner Hair Salon

Setting: at home setting in a playroom or living room.

Materials:
Pipe Cleaners
Strainer

Instructions:
1. Flip a strainer upside-down and take the pipe cleaners and put them in the strainer.
2. Have the individual pull the pipe cleaners out to give the person a hair cut.
3. Next tell them to give them a new hair-do by putting pipe cleaners back in to the strainer.

Purpose: This activity demonstrates fine motor control by grasping onto the pipe cleaners and pulling them out of the strainer. Fine motor control is also used in order to put the pipe cleaners back into the strainer. Fine motor is used in order to increase writing ability and independence in ADL performance. Imagination and play is also emcouraged in the exercise by imagining it was a person and they were giving them a haircut. Imagination and play encourages the use of critical thinking, role identification, and problem solving that the individual will need in life when these imagined situations are no longer imaginary and are real.

Adams, B. (September 8, 2011). What to do with Samuel? Pipe Cleaners.

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