Balls
On August 18, 2012
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Grace has never really been into playing with a ball too much. She has always tended to loose interest fairly quickly, but recently it seems like her ball skills are coming in. Now she is loving throwing balloons, hitting a ball with a bat, and (this morning) throwing, kicking, pushing and rolling a beach ball. It is fun to see her exploring these more and having fun playing with them. It’s fun for me too – even if I’m not particularly good at it all.
I designed and built Grace some cupboards so that we can order some of the stuff in her room and give everything a “home” so that it can go back into a particular place once Grace is done with it.
We wanted to implement the same system that the school uses – everything has its place, and only one toy/activity/game out at a time (i.e. the last thing you were doing gets packed away before the new thing comes out). It has been fascinating to see how with the new order and with the model from school she has been amazingly good about packing things away once she is done. Yes, we still do lots of packing away, but she is much better and really helpful with it.