08 Jun flying carpet
Flying Carpet
The Essentials
Race to create your pizza creation before the clock runs out! The Flying Carpet Game is a fun twist on those classic games that emphasize “don’t rock, don’t break, don’t spill.” Players take turns adding treasures to the carpet, being very careful not to overload the carpet and send it plummeting down! The person that knocks the carpet down loses the round.
The “hidden treasures” are stored in a nice bag, so players reach in and have to “blindly” choose the item they have to add to the carpet. Watch out though — if your treasure falls, you have to put it back on and you have to take another turn!
This game helps facilitate stereognosis, socialization, impulse control, graded use of force, fine motor skills, introduction to strategic thinking/cause-effect, motor control, visual attention.
Fun Factor
This game is fun for kids and their parents enjoy this game as well. It is engaging and if the challenge level is set “just right” for the players, kid consultants and parents report enjoying multiple rounds. Kids often ask to play this game again.
This game is a good addition in the clinical setting and social programs.
Set-Up and Clean-Up
Set-up, clean-up, and storage of this game is relatively easy. The instructions are good and took just a few minutes to set it up initially. The bag for the treasures is well made. This game is easy to sanitize.
The IF-THEN’S and the BUT’S
Be sure not to break the string when unpacking the game initially (there is extra string if it were to break over time). For skilled players you must increase the distance between the carpet and the top, to keep it challenging and faster paced.
There are small pieces, that could be a choking hazard to children under 3 years old or children who mouth/chew-on non-edible objects.
HOW TO AUGMENT THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT
Depending on the toy or game, as therapists and educators, it is typical that we vary the way we use the game and its components to facilitate underlying skills that may be required to play the game for children who are differently abled.
We can increase general learning and target specific learning areas, further enhance creativity and imagination, foster problem solving and memory, target additional physical (gross and fine motor) skills, social skills, communication; and foster sensory processing and modulation.
Through activity analysis, we learn how to maximize the use of the toys and games we use with our clients/students/patients. Here you will find some suggestions that may help you maximize the versatility in every product.
NOTE: Not all games lend to a wide variety of alternate strategies. The level and amount of suggestions will vary from game to game and may be added to from time to time.
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