Week 5: Thursday October 18th- Arts and Crafts

This week in class the Arts and Crafts group presented. We did four activities; drawing with chalk while in a wheel chair, made gods eyes while blind folded, made sensory bags and did marble paintings. All the activities did a great job of showing how arts and crafts can be great for anyone. The gods eye is a great activity for someone with a visual impairment because it relies mostly on on tactile sensation. I really liked the adaption using the dowels instead of the Popsicle sticks so you could have a better feel of where you were and it was easier to push down. The sensory bag was a really fun and cheap idea that I will definitely use as a CTRS someday. During these activities I realized how much fun arts and crafts can be for any age group and how therapeutic they can be. Overall, this presentation really showed me that arts and crafts can be inexpensive and easy to adapt for different populations.