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You will need:
A bag or box of outdoor clothing or dressing up items e.g. coat, scarf, gloves, hat, bag, shoes, mask. You may also want to include multiples of items with different attributes e.g. big and small gloves; red and yellow hats; long and short scarves.
Visual supports to aid understanding and expression (resource coming soon).
One or two adults or children to volunteer to be dressed up!
What to do
One or two people stand at the front of the group.
Children in the group each take a turn to remove a clothing item from the bag and name it (if appropriate). You can sing a song to increase the children’s motivation and raise awareness of turn-taking.
Each child in the group then takes a turn to follow an instruction e.g. to ‘give X (person) the Y (clothing item)’ The person at the front then puts on the clothing item. Using brightly coloured and fun clothes makes this more entertaining!
Depending on the language levels being targeted, the instructions can be at single word/contextual understanding level, all the way up to 3-4 information carrying word level e.g. ‘give Rosie the small gloves’.
Children can also take turns giving instructions to each other, supported by visual resources, as appropriate (resource coming soon).
If time allows at the end, children can be given instructions to remove individual clothing items from the person wearing them, and tidy them back into the bag.
This activity is fun and provides lots of opportunities for commenting on clothes being too small or big, or looking silly. You could take photos of the people dressed up, and use these in activities afterwards.
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