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When working with both children and adults with special needs we have found that many of our services are very successful. This is due to them stimulating many senses.
Balloon Modelling is brilliant as the performer creates colourful shapes and sounds as the balloons are made, resulting in an interesting, bright, tactile shape for the participants to take home. Balloons can stimulate play and the senses alike.
Circus Skills Workshops are a great participation activity for all abilities where the public get a chance to have a go at a range of circus equipment ranging from basic skills such as juggling, diabolo and spinning plates to more advanced circus tricks such as unicycling and stilt walking. Participants are taught the basics of a range of circus equipment by one or more of our tutors. Those who are less able to use the equipment to its potential are stimulated by the movement, colours and texture of the equipment.
Mascot Costumes are large, visual, friendly characters who will wonder around your event, hugging the kids and shaking and adults hand or two.
The Clowns are our most varied entertainers providing activities right across our range.
Making them perfect for providing activities such as Circus Skills and Balloon Modelling. Clowns are also bright and active, once again stimulating the senses.
Circus Skills demonstrations and workshops are a great activity to stimulate a persons sight. This is due to a combination of the movement and vivid colours of the equipment.
The balloons bright colours and interesting designs and shapes also stimulate sight.
Our larger than life and brightly coloured Mascots, Clowns and Stilt walkers are eye catching and something you don't see everyday. This stimulates sight.
In many ways our sense of sound has taken a back seat to our sense of sight. For those who are less able to see, hearing has to take the lead.
Whether being blown up, squeaking between your fingers and teeth or bursting, balloons produce a wide range of interesting sounds.
We can also supply music along with our other activities to enhance the sense of sound.
The tactile feel of balloons is different to anything else available, stimulating a persons touch. Balloons also carry the fear of it being able to burst at any point. This makes a person hold a balloon differently to a less fragile object and can make us more aware of its state.
Our Mascot Costumes have soft tactile fur which and be stroked and pulled, once again stimulating touch.