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bubble tubes
calming, interactive & colourful
Products to be used under the supervision of a professional/responsible adult at all times
THE TOP EIGHT THINGS TO DO
WITH A BUBBLE TUBE
According to responses from our customers, the best ways of
using a bubble tube – depending on the needs of the pupil you
are working with – are as follows:
• Use it on its own! Having too many pieces of equipment
switched on at once makes for sensory overload. Give your
pupil time to get up close, feel the vibration, visually focus on
the colour and on the bubbles or track the bubbles up the tube.
• As a supporting adult, share the experience with the child.
Show enjoyment and share the child’s pleasure. This may lead
to some lovely intensive interaction.
• Develop understanding of cause and effect. Give the pupil
time and quiet to process and use touch or switches to make
things happen.
• Encourage the child to be independent and in control –
through touch or using switches – carefully thinking about
what settings to use with each child to meet their needs and
extend their skills.
• Add things to it, such as bubble tube fish or table tennis
balls, but not too many at once. Start with one and observe
how the pupil visually focusses and tracks.
• Use it to introduce turn taking (taking it in turns to change
the colour using switches). When you feel the child is ready,
this can become a shared activity with a peer, encouraging
early play skills.
• Use as an element of a sensory drama or a sensory story
– an orange bubble tube is great for hubble, bubble, toil and
trouble as part of spell-making at Hallowe’en!
• And finally... please, please clean your bubble tube out every
term. It will then be happy and continue working well for you
for years and years!
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