Arm Chair Travel Activity

Bring a suitcase that you pre-packed with interesting, sensory, discussion provoking items

-Set the scene- get people in the mood to take a trip

-Say- Name ways to travel to places

Car, bus, train, boat, airplane- see how many they can name-give hints

-Then ask who has traveled by each of these things?

-Ask-How are we going to travel to(whereever you are going)?

-Then pretend you are getting into whatever they chose to travel in.

Say OK now we are traveling-

-What song can we sing to make the time go faster?- give choices, if necessary Then sing that song

-After that say We are there. Lets go to the hotel and unpack.-

-Now get out the suitcase and let everyone pick something out of the suitcase one at a time.

-After one person picks something say Why did we pack this?- If no one can think of anything and you can't either say Well next time, we will be more awake when we pack, or we will not let(make up a name) pack. Otherwise discuss why that item was packed.It can be something silly.That is always good for a laugh.

-Give everyone a turn to pick something, but make sure nothing is picked twice.

-After every two people pick-Tell a joke or ask a trivia question.

-This whole thing should take about a half hour.

-For the next half hour watch the travel video.

-Make sure everyone is paying attention. ----

-When it is over or a lot of people are bored-

-Thank everyone for coming and

-put on a music video,

-clean up and put the suitcase and video away.

-document if necessary