ATTENTION AUTISM: BUCKET TIME PLAN 2 (6 weeks)

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Resources Needed

Paint Focus Musical Focus Fine Motor Focus
Double Trouble
Large strip of sugar paper folded in half. Choose two Sugar paper, paints,, items to
Kitchen Band Cotton Bud painting – dot the
interesting items to print with (more unusual print left the print with, selection of pots and
Selection of pots and pans, kitchen paint and follow the line
better!) Dip first item in paint and print. Dip second item in (patterns already drawn out on
pans & kitchen utensils, favourite
utensils. Play along to a favoured piece of music to play via IWB, cotton
paint and print. Fold paper over to reveal the print has card strips)
music/song – taking turns. buds, card strips.
doubled! Repeat using different unusual items on different
strips.
Rainbow Sponge Shake-a-Shake-Shake
Paint, sponge, paper, plastic
Squirt different coloured blobs of paint onto a sponge. Press Tipping items through plastic or card (bent piece Tear and roll up silver foil. Fill
funnels/card for funnels, items to
sponge down onto paper then move in rainbow arc motion to of card) funnels into containers (then sealed), an empty plastic bottle with
be poured e.g. rice, dried beans,
e.g. rice/beans/marbles etc. Play them as foil balls pushing them through
smear the paint over the page to make a rainbow. marbles, glitter gems, pasta, range
‘shakers’ Shake it high, shake it low, shake it fast, the neck of the bottle – you
of containers, silver foil, empty
shake it slow, shake them down onto your knees, have made a shaker!
plastic bottles (with lids).
put your shaker down now please.
Shaving Foam Colour Mix
Selection Musical Rain Shaving foam, tray, paint,
Squirt shaving foam onto tray, squirt blobs of paint onto the
of visual Small xylophone, pour different items onto straw/wand, paper, small
foam in random pattern. Use wand/straw/similar to ‘mix’ the Banana Chop – use safe knives
and/or it to make different sounds. Dried xylophone, items to be poured,
paint around the shaving foam very excitedly. Could lay paper to chop banana into chunks.
bananas, safe knives and plastic
auditory Beans=loud, Cake Sprinkles=Quiet. Children
on top to capture a ‘print’. plates.
highly take turns to decide what to pour.
engaging
Squeegee Paint Rainbow Water Xylophone Paint, card, tray,
items
Squeeze out blobs of paint onto card (on tray to provide ‘hard Fill glass cups with coloured water (rainbow Threading feathers into penne squeegee/dustpan brush, glass
surface’) in random places. Use a squeegee (or dustpan brush) effect), signing each colour (Makaton). pasta – all the colours of the cups, food colouring, water,
(3 items
to move the paint around and blend into an abstract pattern. ‘Play’ music with beaters. Mimic tune made rainbow. beaters, coloured feathers, penne
shown,
maximum of Would also work extremely well on a vertical clear surface. with own voices where able to. pasta.
5 minutes) Ball Bounce Splat Boomwhacker Bop Different types and sizes of balls,
Dip different types and sizes of balls into paint then bounce Chn choose a Boomwhacker and make its sound Use tongs/tweezers to transfer
paint in containers, lining
them onto large scale page, e.g. Lining paper roll/white by hitting plastic chair. They choose next person objects from one container to
paper/white sheet/shower
to join them. Other person makes sound bit the other (size/shape of
sheet/Shower Curtain curtain, boomwhackers, plastic
hitting their plastic chair. Have chairs so that objects dependent on child’s
chairs, tongs/tweezers, a selection
children playing are doing so opposite each individual fine motor skill level)
of objects (appropriate to child).
other.
Paint Squirters Watered down paint, transparent
Watered down paint in transparent cups and a selection of Music Man cups, selection of syringes/water
syringes/water squirters, water droppers to squirt the Sing the Music Man song, have a selection squirters/water droppers,
Scrunch paper into balls and
coloured water-paint onto an interesting surface, e.g. hung of instruments individuals can choose from throw into plastic tubs
interesting surface, selection of
to play – others should ‘play’ without the instruments, newspaper/other
shower curtain/Tuff Spot/Large pictures of paper destined for recycling,
items/letters/numbers to ‘aim’ at instrument. Take Turns to choose.
plastic tubs.
FOR STAGE 4 EACH CHILD HAS THEIR OWN ‘KIT’ OF EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO COMPLETE THE ACTIVITY INDEPENDENTLY, IN THEIR OWN LABELLED TRAY