At-Home Activity – Drop Stick

Published June 19th, 2020
By Alisha Mai McNamara, Programs Director
Tagged with: at-home activity • drop stick • remote learning • social and emotional learning

Paramount in my grab bag of sensory and awareness activities for young people are those with minimal set-up or explanation required, that can be done anyplace, anytime, with any number of people.

Drop stick works well as a group activity under a wide variety of circumstances, yet it really shines as a pick-up activity in those in-between spaces.

When I find myself one on one especially with a quiet or shy child, or someone I don’t yet know well, I look for a stick and the ice is immediately broken. If the child feels at all overwhelmed by the challenge of grasping the plummeting stick before it falls to the earth, they are reliably captivated by tasking me with the same. And, as they see me fail in turn yet sometimes succeed, they become reinvigorated to try again.

It’s hard to find as simple and easy fun as drop stick, and for that, it has always been a Wild Earth classic.

Check out our Drop Stick tutorials on Instagram and YouTube.