Groceries
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Organizing Groceries in Bags

Bagging groceries is a functional activity that can address many skills at the same time, including independent living skills, cognitive concepts, spatial awareness, and motor skills.

One of the key components of independent living as an adult is grocery shopping. Bagging groceries at the end of a shopping trip can be especially challenging for individuals with vision impairments. Specific instruction in this activity can help students prepare to do this activity as adults in their own daily lives. It is also a valuable transferrable skill for employment. Although this activity centers specifically around bagging grocery items, it also helps students to learn skills such as sorting, organization, planning, concept development (i.e. what does a box of spaghetti look like?), and problem solving.

  1. Place all grocery items on a table or other flat surface. It may be helpful to organize items so that canned goods are together, produce is together, etc.
  2. Allow student to explore each of the items for identification. Allow student to get a sense of the weights and sizes of the items.
  3. Ask student to place items into bags so that bags could be reliably lifted and transferred without damage of any items.
  4. Provide guidance to student on sorting items, which items can or cannot be packed together, which items should go on the bottom and which on top, etc.
  5. Talk about which items might need to be kept cold and why.

Collage of bagging groceries

By Courtney Tabor-Abbott

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