Holiday Perspective Taking: Freebie

I started working on this product in October of 2013.  I didn’t get it finished before Christmas and have been slowly chipping away at it during the last year.  I really like my Halloween Flip Flap trick or treating activity and wanted to incorporate that idea into a Christmas activity with a perspective taking theme.

I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of clients who struggle with how to accept unwanted gifts OR how to choose a good gift to give.  I think a lot of adults struggle with this too.  I mean, I wasn’t particularly grateful the year my husband bought me a plug in car vacuum and a humidifier for the bedroom.  I had a hard time accepting the XXL fairy tie-dyed shirt he bought me when we were dating.  But I also didn’t throw them at him and say he was stupid for getting them for me.  

So far my clients have really enjoyed these activities-especially the flip/flap activities.  They like the silliness of having different people come to their holiday celebration and get great presents (tablets) or horrible presents (spider).  In fact, I have a hard time getting them to stop playing the activity.  Plus it is great to work on perspective taking, social skills, pronouns, verb tense forms, and vocabulary development.

I wanted you to be able to use this activity year round-so I added templates for Christmas, Hanukkah AND birthdays.  There are Social stories for opening presents related to Christmas and birthdays and steps to buying a gift.

In addition to the flip/flap game, I’ve included an activity related to a Youtube video which shows some pretty unexpected things happening related to present opening.  If you liked my Slam Dunk Perspective Taking Freebie-I think you will like this activity.

I’ve also included a number of different activities including perspective taking worksheets that target beginning and advanced theory of mind concepts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visuals are included to help students understand how what we think will happen-and what actually happens impacts our emotions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve got a great freebie that includes a Present buying cheat sheet, a social story related to opening gifts and a wish list for your students to fill out.  You can pick that freebie up HERE.

If you want to check out the complete product, head over to my Teachers Pay Teachers store.