Structured ILS

Structured Life Skills Independent Life skill activities Health and Hygiene

Cleaning teeth: Every Morning and Night time before bed learners need to clean and brush their teeth.

Equipment Toothpaste &Toothbrush

Parent/carer guidance: Have your son/daughter model how you brush your teeth for 2 minutes. If possible, put a 2-minute timer visible for the child. If your child struggles for 2 minutes, then put on the brush your teeth song on your phone or Ipad.

Timer

Washing hands- With your son/daughter using a bucket or over the sink model with them how to

Soap and Water

the shower on your phone and show it to your son/daughter. Begin to prompt them to shower and without using words see by giving them items such as shower gel or a sponge if they know how to use them. Prompt them to wash every part of the body when in the shower and try not to use words. Once the student is fully washed ask them to dry themselves and again prompt when needed. If the student has long hair see if they can brush their hair either independently or with support. Each day try to reduce the amount of help (prompts) for your son/daughter. You could also include this on a daily routine timetable so the student knows when its shower time.

Getting ready:

Activity 1: When getting your son/daughter ready have the clothes lay out.

Prompt them by giving them the clothes they need first. You could write down the order or draw pictures of the clothes in order. Encourage as much independence as you can and set a timer to see how long it takes. Try reducing this time every day and also the amount of support.

Shower Soap, sponge and a brush

Daily Clothes Timer

Activity 2: If your son/daughter is independent in getting changed then try making it into a race against another family member and see how long it takes.

Tidying up/Doing the Laundry- Get a pile of dirty and clean washing. Ask your son/daughter to organize a pile of clothes into clean and dirty. Provide prompts when needed. Once you have washed some clothes, model how to peg the clothes out and give your child a chance to have a go. If your child enjoys pegging clothes out give them a time limit and make it into a race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCio_xVlgQ0

Phone/IPAD

wash their hands. Use the song link provided to encourage them to wash every part of the hands.

Showering after exercise: Parent/carer Guidance: After exercise use a picture or symbol of

Links

Clothes Pegs Washing line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxlQn7KaCNU

Sensory Integration (Zones of Regulation) Activity *When doing sensory integration, it is important that you always start with alerting activities and finish with calming*.

Alerting Activities- PICK 2 OR 3 ACTIVITIES TO DO WITH YOUR SON/DAUGHTER EVERYDAY.

Equipment

Links

Trampoline, Children chew toys, stress ball, hula hoops, gym ball, books, IPAD/Phone and laundry.

Shake your sillies out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwT5oX_mqS0

Jigsaws, Pillows, pegs, washing line, rubber bands, loom bands, paper, glue, lego, tweezers/tongs.

Disco Dough:

Rocking chair, Ipad/phone, therapy ball, brushes or sponges.

Relaxing music:

Hokey Cokey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulsFONO-qZg

Jumping on a Trampoline/ Doing the Crab walk/ 10 Jumping jacks/Bear hugs/chew fidgets/squishing toys, hula hoop/hokey pokey/running/shake your sillies and sitting on a large gym ball.

Heavy Work- Carrying books, empty rubbish bin, carry food bags, cleaning the windows or mirror, help with laundry, do an obstacle course, wall push-ups.

Organising and fine motor activities- PICK 2 OR 3 ACTIVITIES TO DO WITH YOUR SON/DAUGHTER EVERYDAY. Doing a jigsaw/threading objects whilst leaning over a cushion/bed/two pillows, pegging clothes on a line, stretching rubber bands or loom bands, pulling objects off sticky paper, balancing on one leg, doing the wheel barrow with a family member, playing on a swing, organizing Lego pieces into correct colour’s and using tweezers or tongs to pick up objects.

Calming Activities- PICK 2 OR 3 ACTVITIES TO DO WITH YOUR SON/DAUGHTR EVERYDAY AND SEE WHICH ONES MAKE THEM MORE RELAXED AND IF THEY FEEL CALM AFTER THEN CONTINUE USING THEM. Rocking back and forth in a chair/perform gentle stretches especially the neck and back, slow marching in a straight line/listen to relaxing music/slow rocking sitting on a therapy ball/ tuck and rock (bring knees to chest and wrap arms around knees so body is like a ball and move back and forth slowly on your back), Animal walks (bear crawl)/ brushing hands with a paint brush or sponge.

What makes me happy/sad?- Ask your son/daughter which activities did they most enjoy or made them sad (Have pictures on an ipad/phone for choosing). Use the ones that made them happy and put them into a routine that could be realistically done on most days.

IPAD/phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-CQrjI0uY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUXEeAXywCY

Healthy Food Recipes Recipe and Ingredients

Equipment

MONDAY: Bear on Toast Makes 1 piece Ingredients: 1 Slice of fruit loaf, Chocolate spread, 3 banana slices and 3 blueberries

Toaster Plate Knife

TUESDAY: Caterpillar Salad Ingredients: Salad leaves, Apple, Melon and Cucumber

Apple corer/knife Plate

WEDNESDAY: Magic Wand fruit kebabs Ingredients: Pineapple, apples strawberries, bananas and watermelon.

Chopping board Sharp Knife(adults only) Star shaped cookie cutters Wooden kebab skewers (blunt ended)

THURSDAY: Strawberry Smoothie

Potato masher Small glass Safe knife Chopping board Large glass/bowl whisk

Ingredients: 500ml cold milk, 2pots of strawberry yoghurt (120g), 2 ripe bananas, 8 large ripe strawberries, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.

FRIDAY: Banana Boat Ingredients: 1 banana, 5 chocolate buttons, 10 mini marshmallows and 1 strawberry.

Oven- set to 160 degrees’ gas mark 3 Knife Baking tray

Method 1: Lightly toast the slice of fruit loaf 2. Once cooled slightly spread on the chocolate spread 3. Carefully place the banana onto the chocolate for a nose and 2 slices of banana as the ears of the bear 4. Put a dab of chocolate spread onto a blueberry and place the blueberry in the Centre of the slice of banana that is the bears nose. Place the 2 remaining blueberries between the ears and nose to make eyes.

1. Use the apple corer to remove the core from the apple, then discard the core.

Cut the remaining apple in half and use the apple corer to make apple cylinders.

Cut the cylinders in half lengthways 2. Use the corer to make cylinders of cucumber and melon and cut these lengthways also.

3. Arrange the leaves in the plate and add the cylinders of apple, cucumber and melon.

1. Wash fruit and have an adult remove the skin from all of the fruit except the strawberries and bananas.

2: Cut the fruit into chunks and watermelon into slices 3 Use the cookie cutter to cut star shape watermelon slices 4: lay out fruit pieces onto a skewer (adults to monitor children) and model how to push the fruit onto the skewer.

5: Finish with the star shaped watermelon slices on top of the skewer to create the magic wand.

1. Pull the green stalk off the strawberries and cut into quarters. Peel the banana and cut them into slices. Put them into a large bowl 2. Use the back of a fork or potato masher to mash the strawberries and banana.

Keep mashing until you have fairly smooth consistency. Add a small squeeze of lemon juice.

3. Measure the milk in a jug and stir in the yoghurt 4. Gradually whisk the milk and yoghurt mixture into the bowl and pour into glass 1 Slit each banana along the middle lengthwise. Be careful not to cut all the way through the banana.

2. Stuff the slit with chocolate buttons and marshmallows 3. Place the stuffed banana in the oven and cook for 10-15 minutes; until the chocolate has melted, the marshmallows are gooey and banana soft

Chopping board

4. Chop the strawberry into small pieces and sprinkle on to the warm banana.