November 2022

Welcome to our final Sibshop of the year 2022. We are super grateful for any opportunity to be with our Sibshoppers. Our crafting Trickle In activity was to create some Melted Crayon Art Masterpieces. All that's required is a cheese grater, some old crayons, parchment paper and an iron.

Put all that together with a little elbow grease and creativity and you end up with something super fun like these!

We introduced a new game today that was simple and easy with very little prep. Catch The Cup turned out to be ridiculously fun. You play with a partner and all each of you need is a Red Solo cup. You toss one cup and all your partner has to do is catch it in theirs. It's not as easy as it sounds...

November is a great time to practice Thankfulness so of course that's what we did. We watched this amazing video about the link between gratitude and happiness.

Following the video we put outselves to work to see if gratitude would indeed make us happier. We used our melted crayon art to create some one of a kind Thank You Notes for people we appreciate.

Following a yummy warm lunch of soup and bread we played a silly game of "Zap It!" 

All you do is bounce a tennis ball and try and score points by hitting the targets.  Just make sure you don't hit a turkey or you're zapped and lose ALL your points!

You may have seen this activity making its rounds on social media. We thought it might be fun to try it out with our Sibshoppers. Here's "Boom, Clap, Snatch!"

Our Thanksgiving version of "Don't Eat Pete" meant the kids were yelling out "Don't Eat Tom!" instead.  Once their turn at munching M&Ms was over, each Sibshopper was asked to identify something specific they are grateful for.

 

Happy Holidays from Sibshops of Utah County.

We will see you in January 2023.

October 2022

 It's Fall, Y'all!

We created some paper pumpkins. Super easy and super fun as well as a super cute finished project.

Each session following our trickle in activity, we gather for welcome and expectations. It is a great way for us to keep getting to know one another and talk about our siblings and their special needs. The kids make important connections as they share their brief stories  and empathize with one another.  After we wrapped up our discussion of expectations and consequences we had ourselves an indoor snowball fight. The goal is to get as many snowballs on your neighbors yard as possible. A little friendly physical competition definitely gets the blood pumping!

Next up was "Wheel of Feelings". We toss the beanbags onto our wheel and and see where they land. Whatever emotion they land on is an opporutnity to share your feelings about experiences you have had with your sibling. You might share a time when you felt pride, happiness, anger or sadness. 

Yummy Halloween Treats greeted us at lunchtime. Mummy dogs, jack-o-lantern clementines, and cheese ghosts were on the spooky menu and devoured quickly.

Engineering spaghetti & marshmallow towers isn't quite as easy as it sounds. They are definitely unique building materials. Our Sibshoppers did a fanstastic job manipulating their materials to build some pretty amazing towers. We might have some future engineers and architects in this talented group of kids. 

We followed this engineering activity with something a bit more colorful and creative--as well as delicious. The Halloween cookies turned out to be both wonderfully artistic and yummy!

See you for more fun, friendship (and likely feasting!) in November.