Fancy Green Tutu Set

Product Description

Sensory 3

Skills

• The different textures provide tactile stimulation and can be used to help children gradually increase the textures they can tolerate.
• Self-help dressing skills can be enhanced as children learn to put on and take off this costume.

Play Ideas

• Have the child hold onto bells while wearing this tutu and jumping around to incorporate auditory reinforcement for movement.

Adaptation Ideas

• For children who are highly sensitive to textures, have them wear leggings or pants under the tutu to avoid direct skin contact with the tulle.

Communicative 3

Skills

• Self-help dressing skills can be enhanced as children learn to put on and take off this costume.
• Imagination and pretend play can be enhanced during use.

Play Ideas

• Play “dance freeze”. Have a child wear the tutu and dance around when the music is playing. Stop the music and the child has to freeze her position until the music is turned on again. This is not only fun, it also works on auditory processing and responding.
• Have a child do a movement that the caregiver has to copy. Then have the caregiver do a movement that the child has to copy. This can help children be aware of other people and how they move.
• Combine this costume with a child’s ballerina storybook. Act out the story.

Social/Emotional 3

Skills

• Self-help dressing skills can be enhanced as kids put on and take off the tutu. 
• Imagination/pretend play skills are encouraged as kids become characters during play. 
• Self-esteem is enhanced as kids pretend play. 

Play Ideas

• Incorporate other pretend play accessory items into play with the tutu--jewelry, shoes, purses, etc. 
• Create a story of the tutu--if the tutu could talk, what stories would it tell, how does it feel? Child can share stories of the tutu to a caregiver and share feelings.