The Clubhouse is the Behavioral Intervention Association's (http://www.bia4autism.org) after-school program. Once a week, children between the ages of 5 and 12, who have communication and social challenges, meet and engage in fun activities to practice different social skills. Thanks to the generosity of our friends at the Jewish Community High School of The Bay who have given us access to their beautiful campus and their committed student volunteers, we were able to bring our East Bay Clubhouse program to San Francisco.
Summer Charades (Fun in the Sun)
Today, we played a games of charades. The category was "All the things you can find in the summer." Here are some of the things we acted out and guessed: octopus, sunscreen, sunglasses, swimming, hula dancing, surfing.
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| SURFING!!! |
Charades is a great game to practice social and non-verbal skills (e.g., identifying expressions and body language) as well as to promote teamwork, to improve communication and to help with impulse control since the player(s) cannot say or blurt out what they are acting out. Its for all ages and it can be played in larger and smaller groups. Last but not least, charades promotes applying inference skills through visual clues.
Here is how we played it at Clubhouse:
One
or a team of player(s) draw(s)a card out of a bag, act(s) out what's depicted on the card, while the rest of the group guesses what it is.
Here are some ideas how to break down the game and how to teach the game to younger students:
- Take turns drawing cards out of a grab bag, depicting summer activities or objects, and practice acting out what is depicted as a group first.
- Use a 'cheat sheet' with duplicate cards to help with the guessing.
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