{"id":9884,"date":"2025-07-23T20:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divi5.janert.info\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:41:24","slug":"30-game-ideas-with-a-dishwashing-sponge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janert.info\/en\/30-spielideen-mit-einem-spuelschwamm\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Floortime game ideas: What else can you do with it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module c-custom-ol-list\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>The key question for creative floor time play is: What else can you do with it? It could be an object, or a movement, or even just a look.<\/p>\n<p>Anstatt den Fokus darauf zu legen, dem Kind beizubringen 'Wie man das richtig macht' und bei funktionalen oder vorgefertigten Gebrauchsweisen oder Spielformen steckenzubleiben, geht es in DIRFloortime darum, sich daf\u00fcr zu interessieren und zu versuchen zu verstehen, was das Kind meint und was es im Sinn hat, um mit ihm und seinen Themen in einen Dialog zu kommen und diesen so lange wie m\u00f6glich in Gang zu halten. Hierbei er\u00f6ffnet uns die Frage 'Was l\u00e4sst sich damit NOCH machen' unz\u00e4hlige M\u00f6glichkeiten und Variationen f\u00fcr gemeinsames kreatives Spiel und Lernen, wie zum Beispiel:<\/p>\n<p><strong>30+ simple ideas for playing with a SPONGE\/ SPONGE SPONGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, it is advisable NOT to teach children with learning difficulties to stack with blocks or similar things and build simple towers and let them topple over, because this is a developmental cul-de-sac we want to avoid: many children get stuck here because it is so fun and exciting, and refuse to play around with the materials and discover what else can be done with them:\u00a0<strong>ATTENTION: Avoid building towers and tipping over as a game!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are 30+ ideas of what you could do with a pack of dishwashing sponges (or similar items):<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em> <\/em>Put the sponge under the sweater: on the stomach, on the leg, on the sleeve, ...<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  body awareness and sensory integration)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Tuck several sponges under the sweater<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Body awareness and sensory integration, physics, mathematics)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Place on your own head and let it slide down again and again<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Body awareness and sensory integration, physics, mathematics)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Lay on the other person's head and take turns with it<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Body awareness and sensory integration, physics, mathematics, interaction)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Place it on your own head and walk around the room without it falling off<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Body coordination and sensory integration, geography\/spatial perception)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Schwamm auf den Boden legen und sich mit einem Fu\u00df draufstellen, - mit den F\u00fc\u00dfen abwechseln<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  body coordination and sensory integration)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Place sponges on the floor and stand with each foot on a sponge and walk around the room, alternating with 2 or each with 2 sponges<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Body coordination and sensory integration, geography\/spatial perception)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Crawl around the room like a cat with a sponge under each hand and knee (practicing school content such as: <em><br \/>Body coordination and sensory integration, geography\/spatial perception)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Walk around the room like a bear with a sponge under each hand and foot<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Body coordination and sensory integration, geography\/spatial perception)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Sit opposite each other and push the sponge back and forth<br \/><em>(practises school subjects such as painting, drawing and writing)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Use a sponge to \u201apaint\u2018\/wipe a horizontal figure eight as large as possible on the table, perhaps hand-over-hand at first, with each hand<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Painting, drawing and writing, regulation, Brain Gym)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>With a sponge in each hand, \u201apaint\u2018\/wipe clear rhythms on the table, perhaps hand-over-hand at first<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Painting, drawing and writing, regulation, Brain Gym)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Everyone plays \u201aauto-scooter\u2018 on the table with a sponge and bumps into each other or pushes the other person off the table<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Painting, drawing and writing, regulation, Brain Gym)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Everyone with a sponge in each hand playing \u201aauto-scooter\u2018 on the table<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Painting, drawing and writing, regulation, Brain Gym)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Line up the sponges on the table<br \/><em>(practices school subjects such as: math, physics and tidying up)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Line up sponges from the table on the floor or elsewhere in the room<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Mathematics, physics and endurance, geography\/spatial perception)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Line up the sponges alternately (rough green side on top - soft yellow side on top ...)<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Mathematics, physics and attention development)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Place the sponges in the hole of a large box (made from a cardboard box)<br \/><em>(Exercise in physics, object permanence, imagination, memory, self-confidence)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Place each sponge in a flowerpot saucer and push it into a row that is an arm's length away<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Mathematics, physics and endurance, geography\/spatial perception)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Turn the flower pot coasters over and move them to a different place with the sponge underneath in a row<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Mathematics, physics and endurance, geography\/spatial perception)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Take the sponges with spaghetti tongs and place them in a bowl an arm's length away<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Painting, drawing, writing, cutting and fine motor skills)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Attach a clothes peg to each sponge<br \/><em>(practices school subjects such as: math, cutting and fine motor skills)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Put each sponge in a jam jar (empty, dry and clean!), close the lid and line up in a row: on the table, on the floor, in a box<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Painting, drawing, writing, cutting and fine motor skills)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Replace one sponge at a time with a clothespin and then line up or insert the sponges elsewhere<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Mathematics, physics and attention development)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Alternating rows with 2 components: Sponge - clamp - sponge - clamp ...<\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Abwechselnde Reihen mit 3 Bestandteilen: Schwamm \u2013 Klammer \u2013 Marmeladenglas - Schwamm \u2013 Marmeladenglas \u2026<br \/><em>(practicing school content such as:  Mathematics, physics and attention development)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Put the sponge under the carpet\/under a cushion and search<br \/><em>(practises school content such as: physics, object permanence, imagination, memory, self-confidence)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Use the sponge to transfer water from one container to another<br \/><em>(practises school content such as: physics, self-confidence)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Pretend that the sponge is a loaf of bread\/cake\/an apple that you can eat<br \/><em>(practises school content such as: simple symbol game)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> <\/em>Den Schwamm als Kopfkissen f\u00fcr ein Pl\u00fcschtier in einer Schuhschachtel benutzen, - und ein Papiertaschentuch als Bettdecke<br \/><em>(practises school content such as: more complex symbol play)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Build a house from the sponges, with a door and roof<br \/><em>(practises school content such as: 3-dimensional visual-spatial perception, more complex symbol play)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autistischen-kindern-bruecken-bauen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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