Activity Goals:      

1. Regulating Adaptive Responses to Sensory Input
2. Promoting Body Awareness and Motor Planning
3. Promoting Social Awareness
4. Facilitating Self-Management
5.  

Objectives: 

Upon successful completion of this activity the child will be able to:

1. Attend to peers during visual demonstration 
2. Attend to peers’ auditory input
3. Use and remember visual and auditory information from peers
4. Cooperate and take turns in a group activity

Materials:

1. Make charade cards featuring categories like: animals, sports, daily routines, favorite cartoons or toys, etc. 
2. Have two or more charades cards available for each child in the group. 

Transitional Activity:

1. Demonstrate a clapping or exercise pattern and have children imitate the sequence.
2. Reverse roles and have each child perform a short clapping or exercise sequence for   the other children and instructor to imitate.

Procedure:

1. Gather the children in a group.
2. Pick a card and demonstrate the rules of Charades:  Perform the actions indicated by the card without using words. Have the children guess and name the activity. 
3. For the next turn, have a child volunteer demonstrate the activity on the next card to the group while the group attempts to name it.
4. Divide the children into small groups of approximately 3 to 4 children per group. 
5. Have 6 to 8 cards per group. These cards can be the same for each small group.
6. Place the cards in the center of the group. Use a fair way to decide who will lead the first round of Charades. (Ex. Pick a number; roll the dice; etc.) 
7. Have the first child pick a card from the pile.
8. The child with the card has to look at the card, hide it, and start the motor sequence to demonstrate the “Charade”.
9. The instructor can provide cueing to enhance the demonstration as needed.
10. After the group identifies the Charade, the next child picks a card and becomes the demonstrator.
11. Continue until each child has at least two turns demonstrating the Charade.

Adaptations:

1. Provide cueing and assistance to the child if the cards or pictures are difficult for the child to interpret and demonstrate.
2. Demonstrate the Charade card and have the child imitate your actions.
3. Have the participants take turns responding to the demonstrator rather than the entire group responding at the same time.

Multi-Level Instruction: 

1. Have the children try and create their own Charade.
2. Have the children work in a larger group playing Charades.