Greetings from Liz and Sue. We are extremely passionate about Music Therapy and are excited to share our ideas with you in this newly created blog..   

Since St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, we thought we would share an idea for this holiday.  Sue came up with this music therapy experience and it has been very successful for her.  She uses it with students who are on the autism spectrum, but it could easily be adapted to use with many different populations.

Music therapy experience name:

Bean Bag Coin Toss

Materials needed:

3 bean bags

Velcro

6 gold coins

Pot or other container to throw bean bags into

Chant (see below)

Preparation and assembly:

Attach one gold coin to each side of each bean bag with Velcro. 

Make a line on the floor for students to stand behind when they are tossing.

Optional:  Make an Irish backdrop with target hole cut out (as pictured below).

Procedure:

Say chant.  Have students take turns throwing the bean bags into the container.  Count the total successful throws for each student.  Applaud the winner!

Chant:

Gold coin bean bag throw,

Not too high, not too low.

Toss it in the center now,

Count your score and we’ll say, “Wow!” 

We hope you found this useful.  We would love to hear from you with your ideas for St. Patrick's Day.

Looking forward to future idea sharing!

Liz and Sue