Sometimes “following a child’s interest” means taking 5 minutes before the session starts to use the beanbag animals that they’re extremely passionate about and set up a diorama of bunnies participating in fine motor activities. 😉
(Full disclosure: The child in question was more baffled than anything else, immediately asked “What are the bunnies doing?” and then “Can we ask them if they can do something else instead?” so I’m not telling you it’s magic, but I’m telling you that I’m out here doing my best to connect!)
(And yes, I ended up conversing with the bunnies as an intermediary 😂)
