Name of teaching material
Various kinds of crocodile stuffed toys and hats self-made product
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Teaching material
| Target | Infants in the kindergarten division |
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| Disability category | mentally challenged |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | instruction of play pre-school education |
| Specific purposes |
◎ To elicit interest from infants and broaden their range of play ◎ To promote interaction with other people and foster attachment to, and trust in, people through play. ○ To improve communication skills through interaction with crocodiles. ○ To improve fine motor skills and thus handling skills through the interaction with crocodiles, and to improve gross motor skills through dynamic body motions. ○ To foster emotions through exciting emotional experiences and sharing of these experiences with other people. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | • The crocodile stuffed toys have a mouth that can be opened and closed and can ‘swallow” toy food; the infants enjoy playing with them. |
| Expected effects and results | • Crocodiles have long been most popular characters, and their use encouraged the children’s free play and participation in scheduled activities. |
| How to use | Make a crocodile stuffed toy with a mouth that can be opened and closed by putting the user’s hand (via the lower portion of the throat) into the mouth; toy food can be placed into the throat. Toys that are too realistic can scare infants, so make them look cute, for example, by putting smiling eyes on the face. Several types of crocodile stuffed toys are acceptable: those about 50 cm long that infants can handle, those about 3 m long that adults can carry, and those that can be worn like a hat. The following is an example of play: In a conversation between a crocodile and an infant, the crocodile says, “Give me!” The infant says, “Here you are,” and the crocodile says, “Thank you.” The crocodile pretends to eat the infant, saying, “I’ll eat you.” |
| Related teaching materials and information |
Crocodile song (lyrics: Maya Uetsubo, music: You Mine) Crocodile stuffed toys and hats were made by Midori Okura, Teruko Kazuhara, and Shino Ogasawara |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Mentally Challenged, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Interaction play
- Created 2017-03-02 14:44:54
- Updated 2023-12-26 14:59:37