Fun Games and Tips to Help Develop Key Toileting Skills
Activities and Games to Support Wiping your Bottom! Wiping one’s bottom is a skill that needs to be practiced and mastered. The child needs to learn how to sit and shift their body position to reach their bottom without falling off the toilet, they need to learn to tear off and fold the toilet paper, they need to learn to wipe firmly and thoroughly. Here are some tips and activities that can help with the process. Reaching, balancing and relying on touch: Balloon Wipe – practising reaching, postural positioning and developing a movement pattern. Attach two inflated balloons together by tying the knots. Then tape or tie the balloons onto the back of a chair (this makes a pretend bum). Recommendations – place the balloons lower (to bum level) on a stool, instead of a chair with a back, to practice balance. Sit the child at the front […]
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