Lamar Elementary School

 

 

Potential Social Motivators

Play with a tape recorder

Watch

Hugging

Listen to a song

Flash Cards

Congratulating

Be pulled with a wagon

Miniature cars

Shaking Hands

Have timed foot races

Dinosaurs

Winking

Go to a museum, park, etc.

Pick-up sticks

High Five

15 minutes later bed time

Colored Paper

Touching or Patting

Use a video camera

Comics

Praising

Jump rope with a parent

Rubber Insects

Tickling

Blow up a balloon and let it go!

Yo-yos

Peer Approval

Blow soap bubbles

Marbles

Thumbs Up!

Be pushed on a swing

Cowboy Hat

Smiling

Look at family photos

Coin Bank

Applause!

Choose a movie or video

Paints and Brushes

Recognition

Walk the dog

Trading Cards

Nodding

Make a sand castle

Whistles

Announcing success to others

Computer time

Sunglasses

 

 

Badges

Potential Activity Rewards

Potential Material Motivators

Magic Tricks

Free Time

Molding clay

Color Pencils

Pick a Story

Crayons

Coloring Book

Choose the dinner

Novelty Gags

 

Pick Flowers

Color Markers

Potential Edible Rewards

Horsey-back ride

Books

Snacks of Nutritional Value

Work a puzzle

Compass

 

Show and Tell

Fake Spiders

 

Style Parent’s Hair

Buttons

 

Dress Up in funny clothes

Stickers

 

Water play or water fight

Kaleidoscope

 

Solve codes or puzzles

Flashlight

 

Parent does one of the child’s                         chores

Jacks

 

Help fix dinner

Play money

 

Make a goodie

Bubble-blowing set

 

Water plants

Marbles

 

Draw or Color Pictures

Jumping beans

 

Have a shadow show

Sidewalk Chalk

 

Paint with Water

Striped Straws

 

Play with a squirt gun

Jump Rope

 

Talk a picture with a camera

Stamps

 

Sing a song

Pencil with child’s name

 

Play catch

Balloons

 

Take a bubble bath

Cards or games

 

Read a comic book

Rubberbands

 

String Beads

Magazines

 

Look through binoculars

Model Kits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 From the "The Tough Kid Parent Book" by William Jenson, PHD, Ginger Rhode, PHD and Melanie Neville, M. A.