Art projects for moderate/high needs 5 year olds with Autism and ADHD
Hi everyone,
I've been teaching for 13ish years, but this is my first year full time as the lead teacher in Special Ed, and my first time teaching 5 year olds. I've never been a great art teacher, or even a good one, but now I'm completely lost! My students have about a 5 minute attention span and need a lot of support. I can get them to glue and paint randomly with one on one support, but I'm bereft of ideas for much beyond that. We did some salad spinner art which was fun, and now... yeah. Everything that I look up just seems way beyond them, but I'm probably not thinking about it in a useful way or from the right angle. How do you think about art when working with students like this? Any project ideas? I'd really like the parents to have presentable things come home a bit more regularly, even just once a fortnight.