May 2025

 Welcome to our May 2025 Sibshop.

For our trickle-in activity, we did some tape-resist painting on canvas. As usual, our Sibshoppers came up with unique and creative ideas for their artwork. Most pieces were made as gifts to present to their mothers for Mother's Day.

Here are some of the works in progress as the paint dries outside. 

The kids made some amazing pieces. We hope you enjoy them. 

Following our welcome and introductions, where we get to know another another review our expecations & consequences, we played a fun game of ball toss & useless machine.

We create a pattern of tossing a ball to everyone in the circle and then have to remember that pattern as more and more balls are introduced simultaneously. To make it a tad more challenging, we keep the pattern but everyone switches places. To make it a tad more ridiculous, we scoot our circle in so we are no longer tossing the balls across a spacious circle, but hanging them directly to one another. It may sound easy, but once we have a lot of balls going (and the giggles), the game can get out of hand and we end up with a useless machine. 

Reading books together as a group always gets us thinking and sharing about our own experiences as brothers and sisters with siblings who have special needs. We enjoyed this book today. 

Our Sibshoppers made all sorts of connections with the characters in the book and with one another as they shared their reactions and experiences with one another. 

For lunch we enjoyed some homemade lunchables. The kids really enjoyed stacking their 

bite sized morsels into towers!

Next up was "Egg Chomp". The goal of this silly minute to win it game is to chomp up and trap as many jellybeans and mini marshmallows as you can into one plastic egg. 

It definitely was not as easy as it looked, but our Sibshoppers developed better strategies over the few rounds that really made a difference. They were chomping up quite a few jellybeans by the final round. 

Our final activity of the Sibshop turned out to be quite the showdown. The game went on and on and on as two teams battled it our for a win. Hula Hoop Showdown is one our Sibshopers favorite games to play, It's a race to the finish to see which team can successfully hop through hoops to their finish line while winning multiple rounds of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" along the way. The rubber match to determine the winning team wins the record for longest game ever played at Sibshops!

See you in June!

April 2025

 Welcome to April's Spring Fling Sibshop.

We celebrated Spring by making some paper weaved eggs. They turned out so wonderfully colorful!

 

We played some fun relay races outside in the warm Spring weather. 

First up was "Hop, Skip & Jump!"

Next up was a classic "Egg on spoon" relay. We strapped on some bunny ears and took to racing.

"Eggstra" Special was up next. Each Sibshopper took the opportunity to complete the handout and then shared their experience from our "soapbox."

"What's In The Egg?" We had a fun time trying to guess all many items hid in one small plastic egg.

Our yummy lunch was followed by a fun outside egg hunt. We were too busy searching for eggs to take many photos. 

We emptied eggs and found yummy treats as well as a bunch of "Would You Rather Questions." So we treated ourselves and answered some fun questions together about Springtime and our families.

See you in May!

March 2025

 Welcome to our "Lucky" March Sibshop!

Rainbow Cereal Jewelry was up first.

Our Sibshoppers made fun, cute edible jewelry. They may have nibbed on it throughout the workshop...

Next up was a Scavenger Hunt with all sorts of activities and challenges to complete!

Our Sibshoppers enjoyed creating personalized leprechaun names.

 Let me introduce you to "Sprinkles McShivers."

Roll the dice game

Searching for hidden gold coins

Don't Eat Pete!

Leprechaun Puzzle

Chopstick  Marshmallow Challenge

Cup Roll Challenge

Arrange the coin filled bags by weight

 It was an awesome scavenger hunt!

We burned some calories after lunch playing a super fun game called "Leprechauns On The Run!"

Our final activity of the day was to create a "Rainbow of Wishes". Our Sibshoppers shared their ideas for what they would buy for their siblings if they found a pot of gold. They then shared what they would love to give their siblings that doesn't cost money. 

See you in April.