From the Tapestry Blog:
I’ve been reading a lot about sensory processing recently, and I’ve been thinking about how to better incorporate sensory activities into our family time. We’ve dabbled in various sensory activities (tactile, visual, audio, vestibular, proprioceptive) over the years but have never really hit upon anything with lasting results. I even tried a few things last week with little or no impact. Then, this weekend we found something.
Our girls were rough housing with their dad, and they thought it was great. After playing for a little bit, we made a “sandwich” using two pillows and our oldest daughter in the middle of the pillows. We rubbed imaginary peanut butter and jelly on her back with firm hand strokes. (I chose to rub her back two different ways to differentiate between the peanut butter and the jelly.) Then I lightly pressed the other pillow on top of her to make a sandwich. She asked for this to be repeated 3 or 4 times, and sometimes she asked for just peanut butter or just jelly or both. We didn’t really think anything of it until we were reflecting on the evening after the girls were in bed.
Late afternoon/early evening can be a wild time in our house. But this night we realized that our oldest had stayed calm before dinner, stayed in her seat the whole time, cleaned her plate, and had continued to stay calm for the rest of the evening. So a light bulb sort of went off in our heads, and we started to think that maybe we stumbled upon the right combination for Elise – rough housing and sandwiching (or vestibular input followed by proprioceptive input).
We’re planning to try this combination regularly to see if we can establish a pattern of behavior from it. Hopefully, over the next couple of weeks, we can try a combination of these two activities and stop the late afternoon downward spiral. Whatever happens, we’re going to continue experimenting with sensory activities and paying attention to their effects. Why? Because we know we won’t discover effective sensory activities for our family unless we’re intentional about trying new things and watching closely for improvements.
If you are wondering where to look for sensory activity ideas or just more information, I would suggest reading The Out-of-Sync-Child and The-Out-of-Sync-Child-Has-Fun. The latter features a ton of ideas for sensory rich activities to try with your kids. And of course, as the title suggests, it can be fun.
If there’s an activity that works great for your family or another resource you would recommend, feel free to tell us about it by leaving a comment on this post. I would love to hear what’s working for you guys, too.
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