Encouraging people on the autism spectrum to foster positive emotions and character traits can dramatically improve their lives in every way, and help to strengthen their ability to cope with everyday challenges and setbacks. Drawing on the key concepts of positive psychology, this book looks in detail at five positive character traits - resilience, optimism, humor, kindness, and self-efficacy - and offer tried and tested strategies for bolstering each strength in individuals with ASD. The authors provide rich and varied lesson plans which contain a multitude of activities designed to build on the five areas identified, and which can be easily implemented at home, at school, or in the community. This complete "toolkit" provides parents, educators and other professionals with everything they need to know to use positive psychology strategies to support people of all ages and abilities on the autism spectrum.
Lily likes to wear the cat mask that her father bought for her, but she isn't allowed to wear it in school until her class has a costume party, where she makes a new friend.
Creative Activities for the Early Years contains over 160 art and music activities for use with children aged 0-5. These tried and tested activities, which include songs, rhymes, and story suggestions, are ideal for use in all early years settings. Whether your topic is the autumn, the Chinese New Year or the coastline, you can be sure that children will find the art and music ideas in this book interesting and entertaining. The activities encourage children to use their imagination to communicate ideas, and develop their gross and fine motor skills. The activities are grouped by popular early years themes and can be used as a complete programme or as a dip-in resource.
Create 25 plus distintive holiday-themed paper crafts for decorating your home with these photographic step-by-step instructions and tips to guide you through each project.
There is no end to scrapbooking as a craft, or to the popularity of Marina du Plessis’s scrapbook piecing. Back with a fourth collection of scrapbook layouts in Creative Scrapbook Piecing 4 with Marina du Plessis, the author provides designs for a host of special occasions and reasons to preserve memories of family and friends. Using mostly paper, each of the 42 full-colour layouts includes easy-to-understand instructions and templates for making the frames, letters, titles, tags, envelopes and the three-dimensional figurines. Elements may be mixed and matched, or adapted, to personalise your own layouts. There are themes to suit boys and girls (from babies to adults) and these include birthdays, weddings, special festivals and events, weddings, memories, pets and good times. Projects are suitable for advanced and beginner scrappers.