Vocational Task Practice for the Special Education Classroom.
This project uses simple items found at the Dollar Store to let students practice the job skill of refilling salt and pepper shakers. This could also be somewhat useful at home, as it gives skills of carefully measuring dry goods used in cooking recipes.
I was able to find packs of small salt and pepper containers which looked like they were marketed for party or wedding venues. The funnel came in a three pack, and the containers I used for the salt and pepper storage are recycled baby food containers. I bought black and white sand instead of using salt and pepper so that I would not have any sneezing issues if someone got some pepper in their nose!
Included in the task are pairs of plastic gloves. I want to teach my students that any time you work with food, you should be wearing gloves. Also, by practicing putting on gloves on a regular basis, my students will already be familiar with that part of the process if they should ever have a job in the food service industry.
- Overall Price: $4.00 for all materials at Dollar Tree
- Difficulty level: Advanced
- Skills focused on: Fine motor skills, letter identification, ability to categorize by shade of sand.
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