Oral / Breathing Games that are Calming

Sensory integration

﻿Playing games is always fun and today we're going to look at some calming games that we can play together with our friends and our family. We, as therapists, have tried to think of the best way to continue to support children, young people and their families. We will be exploring topic areas that we regularly provide advice and support on across all ages and abilities. Each lesson will have ideas and activities that can be carried out at home or in school. This information is to be used alongside any specific strategies or resources which have been given by your child's school or therapist. If you have any questions or would like help tailoring this to your child's needs, then please contact your local therapy service. In today's lesson, we are going to play some games involving our mouth and to do with our breathing, and the aim of these games is to help us to be calm. So here's three different games that we're going to talk through, and then you're going to have a chance to choose one of these games to play with your parent or carer. So let's have a look at the first one. For the first one, you are going to need two people and two straws, a light ping pong ball, a table, some electric tape on either side to mark the goals, and the idea then is that you each have a straw and you have to see who can score the most goals. So you just need to get blowing with the blow football game. The second game is called bubble mountain. So what do you need for this game is you need to fill a tub halfway with water. So a little one of those tubs that you use for washing up, they are brilliant. And then you need a long piece of plastic tubing. So the medical tubing that you will often find in hospitals are ideal for this, and you need about one metre length and then both of you will have a longish piece of this tubing, and then you have to practise just to blow in the water so that you don't suck the water in as well because that will taste horrible. So once you've practised your blowing, just blowing into the water, add some dishwasher soap and then you keep on blowing and blowing and blowing and see how big a bubble mountain the two of you can create. The third game that will help you to be calm and is a really regulating game, and again you will need your parent or carer to work with you and join in with this game, is find a kazoo or a harmonica or any other instrument where you have to blow and make up your own song, have a little orchestra, maybe have some music in the background and see if you can just play along to it. So have fun with these games, on the next slide I'm going to give you now a chance to think about whether you want to play blow football, bubble mountain or you just want to want to do some musical instruments. So that's what we're going to do next. So on this page, I'm going to ask you to pause the video now to play one of those games with your family or your friends and once you finished, you're going to press play and we will finish the lesson together. Wow, I hope you had fun today. I have to say those three games are all my favourite ones and I love playing them, especially when I can do them outside. The bubble mountain one especially, that is one of my absolute favourite ones, when I can see how big a bubble I can blow. Have fun today and we'll see you soon.

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Oral / Breathing Games that are Calming

Oral / Breathing Games that are Calming

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