Activity: Bean Art
Target participant group: This activity is great for a wide range of individuals.
Therapeutic potential of this activity: Bean art can benefit fine motor skills, help self expression and cognitive development.
What other groups may benefit from this activity? This activity may be beneficial for individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities, mental illnesses, attention deficit disorders, intellectual disabilities, seeing impairment and the elders.
What groups may not be as appropriate for this activity? This activity may not be appropriate for individuals were choking hazards may be a concern.
Activity description: Bean art can be adapted to fit the needs of the individuals. This can be done in so many different ways for example, decorating a pre-cut shape (such as a letter or a cat), gluing beans to an object, or creating a piece on canvas.
Resources needed: Depending on what kind of art work your making you may
need different things. The essentials will be a flat surface with plenty of
room. You will need a variety of beans, containers to place the bean in, tacky
glue, cardboard style paper, canvases, or objects, be as creative as you want. If
you do not want to use regular beans you can also use jelly beans.Best leadership style for this activity: The best leadership style for this activity is democratic. It’s important to encouraging and allow individuals to be creative in their bean art as well as assist when needed.
Where did you find this activity? We did bean art as one of the activities with special recreation.
Where can others find more information on this activity?
The link below is to the jelly bean candy store. You can buy
jelly beans in bulk here and they also have a gallery of amazing jelly bean
art.
The link below is to a blogger's page that has a tutorial on
bean art. They go into details of how they did their project along with showing
pictures of some steps.
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