social skills

Communication, Problem-solving, and Socialization

  • Here are some ffun activities that can get the whole family involved!!!!

    Show and Tell

    • Gather the whole family together for “Show and Tell.”
    • Each family member needs to pick out a favorite item from their room.
    • One of the adults should go first to model how to play.
    • Show off your favorite item and explain why you love it so much, where you got it, and how it works.
    • After modeling how to play, let your child go up and deliver their speech!

    Picture Storytelling 

    This is a great activity to teach children new vocabulary words and sequencing. 

    • Start with one photo and have your child tell you everything they see. For example, if it’s a farm photo, they might say: barn, cat, farmer, pig, straw, cow.
    • Then, have your child invent a story about what they see in the picture.
    • You can help prompt them by saying, “The farmer brings food to the animals in the barn” or “The cat is unhappy because she has to share her food with the pig.”
    • Encourage your child to be silly and let their imagination run wild!

    Tic Tac Toe

    Things you’ll need: A tic tac tow board or pen and paper

    How to do: This is one of the most exciting problem solving fun activities for students. You can either play this game on a tic tac toe board or on paper. If you’re playing it on paper, draw a table so that you have 9 boxes. Now each player must choose X or O and try to make a continuous row of their chosen symbol. Whoever succeeds wins. 

    Human Knot

    Things you’ll need: Just a playground or garden

    How to do: This is a great group activity for kids that’ll also teach them lots of skills. Ask the kids to form a circle and raise their right arm up. Now ask them to reach out to someone standing opposite to them in the circle and hold their left hand with their left hand. Now ask them to raise their left hands up and repeat the process with their right hands. The objective is to entangle them completely and then ask them to detangle themselves without letting go of anyone’s hands.

    Would you rather

    “Would you rather” is a fun conversation game that offers a choice between two answers.

    This games is so fun that even a quiet child can turn into a chatterbox.

    Role-playing giving and receiving compliments

    In groups of two, each kid takes a turn saying something nice to the other person (e.g. I like your t-shirt, You did great today at maths), and the child that receives the compliment responds “Thank you very much”.

    The personal space circle

    Draw a circle on a big sheet of paper. The inner circle will be the intimate space (1.5 feet radius), surrounded by personal space (4 feet radius) and the area outside is the social space.

    Put that paper on the floor. Take turns to role play conversations where kids speak to each other without trespassing in their personal spaces. (You may also use a string to create the circle or a hula hoop)