Further to the Lego Therapy course, I bought a couple of Lego sets from eBay. I didn’t want to pay too much just to get him started. I bought 2 house sets and made them up. One was hinged so could open and close, the other was a 3 storey house with outdoor pool and trampoline! I tried to get him to help me make them, but he wasn’t interested.
Given that autism means imaginative play is difficult, I know he wouldn’t play houses with them, but I was glad to see him pretend jumping the figures on the trampoline. It’s a start! He liked to carry the hinged house and open and close it, but he didn’t look at the other house.
I saw a rollercoaster set on eBay and bought that, thinking he may need the Lego to do something. This has been the best money ever spent! He loves it! He will put the figures on and off and spin the rollercoaster round the track:
On the back of the success of this, I bought the Lego big wheel:
This was expensive but we felt we need to try things to get his interest in something other than the iPad! I had £70 of Amazon vouchers which helped with the cost. The rollercoaster was such a success we wanted to capitalise on this and create a funfare. It has been great seeing him engage with the Lego figures – even if it is just to pull them apart and rebuild them!
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