Many times I find the most amazing things in Dollar Tree to use in sessions. For up coming spring they have these huge cloth pinwheels I was going to get for my sessions, but then I came across smaller plastic ones.
Some clients might be able to destroy these but most won’t for the short period of time that they’ll have them. I don’t know which was better the huge ones are these. When spring gets closer, around Easter time I do an activity using these. I imagine I’ll do some song and have them blow to spin the pinwheels at some point in the song. If I have a group that can’t do this, there is usually a big fan in every room I’m in so I’ll turn it so they just have to hold the pinwheels.
If I had gotten the big ones I probably would have needed the fan to make them work, or they would have to spin it with their hands. I will probably do some directional movements with the pinwheels to “hold them high over your head, all the way out to the side, ect.”
Who knows I might get some big ones to spread through the group. But about these: they are pretty durable for normal wear and tear, I’ve twisted and bent then a little and they’re still in one piece. The stick is like a stick you use for grilling (I won’t even try to spell that word right now, lol). Then there is a plastic coating over the stick, which is better feeling than splintery wood and it won’t absorb germs! They did have points on them which I just snipped off with scissors. They come 3 in a pack, in different mixtures of colors $1 each, I got 3 packs.
