All the DAZE Productions: Ideas for all the daze you spend with children

Activity Ideas:
Soothing Experiences
Fishing

Listening to favorite music

Setting up squirrel and bird feeders to observe wildlife

Looking through photograph albums

Going on a drive

Watching fish in an aquarium

Use Lotion with glitter added to it. Give it to children to sooth bumps or to settle children.

Quiet Time
This is my quiet time
My feet are flat and still
My hands too are still
My hands are in my lap
My head is limp
My body is limp
Now head rest on my knees
My head comes up
Now I am ready to listen.

Open and Shut Them
Open them (fists open) shut them (fists closed)
Give them a little clap, clap, clap (clap three times)
Open and shut them, open and shut them
Put them in your lap, lap, lap (tap your lap three times)
Creep them, crawl them (use fingertips), creep them, crawl them
Right up to your chin, chin, chin (tap chin three times)
Open wide your little mouth (open your mouth)
But do not let them in (hide hands behind back)

Outdoor Silence
Help children be better listeners and observers. This simple activity will develop listening, imaging,
describing, and drawing skills.
Find a place where everyone can sit down outdoors. Once all are seated, ask the group for 5 minutes of
silence. Explain that animals and birds won't resume their activities unless all are quiet. Once the time is
up, have each student tell the group about something he/she has never heard before. You'll be
surprised at the answers you get-sometimes the quiet itself is something many kids have never
encountered!

Reflective Painting
Materials: Paint, Feathers, Paper, lullaby music
Directions: Play a lullaby and allow children time to reflect on the tempo and movement of the music.
Use large paper and encourage the children to paint a picture using feathers as a brush. I love the
effect of black paint on white paper.

Quiet DAZE