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Name of Activity: Humor Board

|Type of modality |Craft- Humor |

|Type of play |Shared Cooperative |

|Interaction pattern |Intra-group |

|# of participants required |≥1 person |

|Equipment/supplies |Large cork board, push pins, scissors, humor materials (ex. Humorous |

| |quotes, pictures, memes, one liners, comedians, etc.) |

|Facilities required/environment |Central area of facility |

|Precautions |When creating a humor board, it is important to make sure there is no |

| |content that offends anyone and that the content is also appropriate. |

Sequence/Directions (Details of how a to move through the activity from start to finish)

1. Select the location for the humor board (preferably a general meeting area so that people will walk by and read it).

2. Lay out all of the possible content that would be posted on the wall. For example they should be items such as: funny quotes, memes, one liners, pictures, pictures of comedians, jokes, magic trick instructions, book suggestions, etc.

3. As a group, go through each item and discuss if all of the content is appropriate/non-offensive. If there are items that do so, remove them from the pile.

4. As a group, determine a final selection of materials that will go onto the final product of the board.

5. Using scissors begin to cut and/or trim any excess paper or material from the selected humor content.

6. Post the content carefully using the push pins. Using push pins will be useful so that when participates do this activity again, they can cleanly remove the old material and replace it with new material.

7. Walk down to designated area to mount humor board for everyone to see and enjoy!

Activity Analysis (What is required of this activity without any adjustments, accommodations, alterations)

|Category |Skills |

|Primary body position |Dynamic sitting & standing |

|Part of the body required |All body parts |

|Movement |Bending, grasping (scissor and pincer), putting down objects, reaching, releasing, standing, |

| |turning or twisting hands, walking short distances |

|Physical |Balance (dynamic standing and sitting), bilateral integration, crossing midline, gross muscle |

| |coordination, motor control, active range of motion (upper extremities) visual- motor |

| |integration |

|Cognitive |Arousal/alertness, focused attention, sharing attention, categorization, concept formation, |

| |simple decision making, initiation, insight, judgement, orientation (person), reading |

|Social |Conversation (starting, sustaining, and ending), handling criticism, heterogeneity, |

| |homogeneity, interpersonal interactions, maintain social space, relating with equals, |

| |regulating behavior |

|Perception |Auditory, visual |

|Communication/language |Reception to spoken language, reception to written language, expression of spoken language, |

| |expression of written language, producing body language |

|Self-care |N/A |

|Psychological/emotional (possible) |Joy of doing activity, anger if some humor content offends you, frustration if the group is |

| |disagreeing on a certain issue |

SIMPLIFYING AND COMPLICATING THIS ACTIVITY:

| |Ways to SIMPLIFY demands |Ways to make more COMPLEX |

| |Remove any written humor content. |Add jokes to the board that are cognitively harder|

|Cognitively | |to understand. |

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| |Do not have them walk down to the area to mount |Have participants stand, stretch to the top of the|

|Physically |the board. |board, actively engage in creating the board, walk|

| |Have participants sitting down while preparing |back and forth to collect supplies from the table |

| |humor board |area to the humor board |

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| |Encourage only a friendly greeting during the |Encourage them to share favorite humor through |

|Socially |activity. Have participants contribute items for |jokes to create similarities between them. Ask |

| |the humor board and join in discussion groups and |participant’s their opinion or different comedians|

| |humor-sharing, only if they wish to. |and funny movies. |

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Other Comments:

An evening group called “Humor Night” could include the following items:

• Bloopers, American Funniest Home Videos

• A Lip Sync Competition

•   (Reader’s Digest Jokes Pick a joke category, pick someone to read it  

• A stand-up comedian routine (keep it clean!) such as Ellen DeGeneres   

•  A comedy movie that everyone might enjoy.

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