Walk through of the Thanksgiving Party Setup Kit from theautismhelper.com, which comes in 4 or 5-station versions with visual schedules, station labels, shopping lists, and activities like trail mix, headbands, bingo, and stuffing. Requires no laminating and minimal cooking, designed to keep routine-oriented learners on track.
This is a product preview of my Thanksgiving Party Setup Kit. When you download, it's a zip file, so you'll get two different files included: a 4-station party or a 5-station party. So this just depends on how many groups you put your class into and how many adults you have, so that'll kind of make the decision for you if you want 4 groups or 5 groups. So for the 5-group party, there's instructions for how to set this all up, there's a shopping list, there's a few food items that you will need, and then other common classroom materials just to make sure you're stocked up on all of that. Um, but the prep here is really easy. There's no laminating required, no microwave cooking. Everything is very basic and straightforward. This is a general rundown of the party with the 5 stations with a kind of a brief description of the activity and the materials needed. So this is a great kind of review and something to hand out to your staff to kind of show exactly what we're doing. And then this schedule and group list, you'll divide the students into 5 groups, write their names down here. Write the times that they're at each station. So whether you want it to be 10, 15, or 20 minutes at each station. So 1:00 to 1:15, 1:15 to 1:30, write it all in there. And then for the 5 stations, write which adult is in charge and the location. So this is gonna make sure everyone's on the same page. Students are gonna rotate amongst the party in kind of a really organized fashion. It's not mass chaos. It's not go where you want when you want. There's a routine and a setup to this, which our kids really benefit from. Then there are student schedules, so this shows the exact order of the activities so students can cross it off as they, as they go around. Again, these are strategies we use on a daily basis, so these are going to really help our students out, especially during this kind of novel, um, activity, this change to their routine. For each station, there's a full-page visual, um, label, directions, materials. This kind of has everything. So first, this has the visual that they'll match. It has visual directions of what to do. Materials needed, and a photo example. The materials needed is perfect for the staff, so when you're setting up, or if you're setting everything up, you can make sure everything's at the right tables. And then any act— any resources that you'll need will be under there. So Fall Trail Mix. Station 3 has 3 to 2 different game options. One is Thanksgiving headbands and one is an I Spy. So depending on the verbal skills of your students, you can pick which activity to do. Or alternate between the two of them based on the group. I love this I Spy game. It's one of my favorites. Next is a bingo. Here's all the cards and the board. And then making stuffing. So this one does have a microwave option, but all of the other cooking does not have a microwave option. So the other cooking activity was just kind of that non-microwave version. So again, this is the Thanksgiving 5-Station Party. And the 4-station one includes everything but the stuffing, so if you don't have a microwave, you can use the 4-station version. So this was a product preview of the Thanksgiving Class Party Setup Kit by theautismhelper.com.
