Name of In Class Activity: Healthy Fruit Cups
Type of modality / Preparing and serving food/Fine motor skills/Social SkillsType of play / Shared Cooperative
Interaction pattern / Intra-group
# of participants required / 2 or more
Equipment/supplies / Tables, table cloths, washed fruit (strawberries, blueberries, apples, raspberries), healthy cookies, forks, spoons, knife, cups, yogurt, granola, plate, napkins
Facilities required/environment / An area that is large enough for tables and for people to sit. Area also needs to be clean and organized.
Precautions / Be aware of food allergies BEFORE serving the prepared food to others. Also be careful when using the knife to cut the apples.
Task Analysis:
1. Gather all equipment and supplies
2. Move three large tables together (no spaces inbetween) to form a line
3. Unfold table cloths and spread them out on the three tables so that all three tables are covered
4. Pick up the cups, forks, and napkins and place them on the corner of the table at the beginning of the line formed by the three tables
5.Gather the washed fruit, yogurt, healthy cookies, and granola and place them in a line on the three tables
6. Pick up the plate and place it on the table next to the apples
7. Carefully pick up the knife and cut the apples on the plate
8. Then open the fruit cartons, yogurt, granola, and healthy cookies
9. Place one spoon in each carton of yogurt and in each bag of granola
10. Also place a spoon next to each fruit carton to make serving the fruit easier as well as more sanitary
11. After all food is ready to be served, inform friends that the food is ready and that they may form an orderly line starting where the cups, forks, and napkins where placed
12. When a person approaches your station, politely ask if they would like what you are serving and/or what kind if you are serving more than one kind.
13. If the person responds yes, with the spoon scoop what you are serving and carefully place it into that person’s cup
14. Repeat steps 12 and 13 until there are no more people in the line
15. After everyone has left, make a healthy fruit cup for yourself if you wish
16. If all the food supplies are gone throw away the cartons, disposable silverware, and plate
17. If some food still remains save it
18. Once everything is off the table cloths, gather the table cloths off of the tables and fold then
19. Return the tables to where they originally found
20. Make sure floor everything is clean
Activity Analysis:
Category / SkillsPrimary body position / Standing
Part of the body required / All parts of body required
Movement / Bending, carrying in the arms, carrying in the hands, palmar grasp, scissor grasp, radial-digital grasp, 3-jaw chuck grasp, pincer grasp, lifting, picking up, putting down objects, reaching, releasing, standing, turning or twisting hands or arms, walking short distances
Physical / Balance: Dynamic Standing, balance: static standing, bilateral integration, crossing midline, fine muscle coordination, flexibility, gross muscle coordination, motor control, active range of motion: upper extremities, speed, visual-motor integration
Cognitive / Arousal/alertness, alternating attention, divided attention, focused attention, selective attention, sharing attention, concentration, decision making: simple, initiation, judgment, memory: short-term, orientation: person, organization and planning, recognition: size, spatial operations, strategy
Social / Conversation: starting, sustaining, and ending, handling criticism, heterogeneity, homogeneity, interpersonal interactions, maintaining social space, regulating behavior, relationships: forming, relationships: terminating, social conduct, social cues, showing respect and warmth, showing tolerance
Perception / Auditory, gustatory, tactile, visual
Communication/language / Reception to spoken language, reception to body language, expression of spoken language
Self-care / Eating
Psychological/emotional (possible) / Joy from serving others, frustration if you can’t get something open, fear of cutting yourself when using the knife to cut the apple.
Ways to SIMPLIFY demands / Ways to make more COMPLEX
Cognitively / This activity could be made simpler by switching on and off with someone when serving the food to lower the amount of attention needed. / Being in charge of serving two different items of food would make this activity more complex because it would heighten the amount of attention as well as concentration skills needed.
Physically / This activity could be made simpler by removing the apple, therefore not having to cut it, lowering the amount of movement, grasp, and fine motor skills needed. / This activity would be more physically complex if we added more fruits that needed to be cut or peeled, increasing the movement, grasp, and fine motor skills needed.
Socially / Socially, this activity could be made simpler by just preparing the food and not having to serve it. Instead, the people in the line would just serve themselves. This would lower the amount of social skills needed. / To make this activity more complex socially, we could have the server introduce themselves to every person that they serve food to, increasing the amount of conversation and relationship skills needed.
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