**auntie** & Others with ASD experience

[spedrunner]

Looking for some input for some fun social games.  My students all prefer to play alone and I am encouraging and modeling how to speak to eachother, interact and play, etc

Ive done some great activities and need MORE ideas along these lines:

I give each st pieces to mr potato head (eyes, ears, mouth, hat, etc)

I allow one student to sit in the middle and give him a  blank potato head doll, he needs to ASK students for the pieces he wants ("John, can i have the red mouth please")  I make sure they follow our rules about eye contact, speaking loud and clear, etc etc

I also do something similar with Legos, i asked them to rebuild a picture and they have to ask certain students for pieces, etc

I LOVE THIS STUFF So much and am lookign for other ideas and ways i can incorporate things like this.  I like to keep it basic and simple

PLEASE help!!

xoxo

[spedrunner]

forgot to page you auntie

[auntie]

I'm not too familiar with this sort of social group gaming thing. DS did a social skills group, but mostly they worked on sportmanship around games like chess, Uno and Apples to Apples.

Not sure how old or atypical your kids are, but one thing we had fun with in Cub Scouts was charades. This was a more or less NT Den, we had a couple ADHDers in addition to DS. When they were in 2nd grade or so, we would pick a theme- so they might pick a superhero or a TV show to act out. When they got closer to 4th and 5th, we upped the ante by telling them what to act out. We let them ask yes/no questions sometimes. My cubs little sisters routinely kicked their brothers' butts at this.

[hi725]

Yoga Garden. I used it with my students during my fieldwork and it was a huge hit. It's a board game with yoga poses. There are no winners or losers, it's just a group activity. And pretty cool because each player has to model a pose that the rest of the group copies, or make up their own. I am a huge fan of games that incorporate physical activities.

[spedrunner]

thank you both!! I will def look into both suggestions!! I did this cute yoga book with my guys (You Are a Lion and Other Fun Poses) So i think they will love it!

[macmars45]

I work with ASD/special needs preschoolers. We pass a bean bag around the circle and each child has to use their words to ask for it from their neighbor please and then say thank you. We model the words we want them to say but tailor it to each individual kid's abilities as some kids have more verbal skills than others.