Name of Activity: Angry Paper Toss

Type of modality / Anger Management /using arts and crafts
Type of play / Shared cooperative
Interaction pattern / Intra- group
# of participants required / 1
Equipment/supplies / Large white paper, washable marker, tape, bucket filled with water, and napkins/paper towel
Facilities required/environment / Outside near a building wall or tree(somewhere to tape paper to)
Precautions

1. Gather supplies: large white paper, washable marker, tape, napkins and bucket filled with water.

2. Tape the large white paper onto a building wall, or something comparable.

3. Ask participants to brainstorm a situation or something that makes them angry.

4. Taking turns, each participant will write his or her thoughts on the white paper with the washable marker.

5. Each participant will then be given a napkin.

6. Taking turns; each participant will dip their napkin in the bucket of water and throw the wet napkin at the white paper.

7.The wet napkin will make the writing drip, and the words will wash away.

8.Recap with the group, discuss how the group felt during this activity. Discuss how it felt writing down their angry thoughts and how it felt watching those emotions wash away.

Category / Skills
Primary body position / Standing
Part of the body required / Trunk, upper and lower extremities
Movement / pincer and palmer grasp, carrying in the hands, picking up,releasing, throwing, walking short distances,
Physical / Dynamic standing, fine and gross motor coordination, muscle strength, AROM: UE and visual-motor integration (may need bilateral integration to write words while holding paper down), visual-motor integration when throwing paper on to target (words).
Selective attention, sharing attention, initiation, insight, concrete and abstract thought, spelling, & writing. Decision-making (what to write)
Social / Conversation: starting, sustaining and ending, heterogeneity, homogeneity, interpersonal interactions, maintaining social space, relating with equals, regulating behavior, self- expression, self- conduct and showing respect and warmth
Perception / Visual, tactile and hearing
Communication/language / Reception of spoken and written language, expression of spoken and written language.
Self-care / N/A
Psychological/emotional (possible) / Joy completing activity, seeing words run down the paper, frustration if participant can’t think of anything to write, or if he/she misses the paper when one attempts to toss the wet napkins, feelings of anger, pain & guilt may arise when thinking of a situation or thing that angers/annoys participant.
Ways to SIMPLIFY demands / Ways to make more COMPLEX
Cognitively / RT could list ideas on a separate board so that participants can see suggestions, and copy something that they feel. For example- “ people who talk about me”. / Ask participants to write in complete sentences.
Physically / Move the participant closer to the paper, already wet the napkin for participant / Have participant dip napkin in the bucket by them-self, have participant move farther away from the white paper.
Socially / Do with activity in a group participant is comfortable with. / Do this activity with a new group of people.

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