Create your own hook-a-duck game using recycled milk bottles and splash into summer while modelling key core vocabulary! This hands-on, water-based game is a perfect opportunity to practise turn-taking, requesting help, and making comments with AAC.
Empty plastic milk bottles
Stapler
String
Stick (for fishing rod)
Tub filled with water
Optional: acrylic paint pens for decorating
Cut out duck shapes from milk bottles (optional: decorate them).
Cut and attach upright plastic rings to the ducks with a stapler.
Make a hook from more bottle plastic and tie it to a string and stick = fishing rod!
Float the ducks in water and take turns trying to hook them.
Use AAC to direct the game and react: “Help me,” “That was close,” “Look it in!”
AAC Model Ideas by Level:
1-word: “get,” “go,” “look,” “stop,” “in,” “help”
2-word: “get it,” “go slow,” “help me,” “stop there”
3-word: “Look it’s in,” “Let’s play again,” “Help me please”
Functions Targeted:
Requesting: “Help me please,” “Can I go?”
Directing: “Not so fast,” “Take it out,” “Stop there”
Commenting: “Like this game,” “That was good,” “I’m mad”
Refusing: “Don’t like wet,” “Stop now”
Interjecting: “Oh no!,” “Yay!”
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