03/14/2026
🎨 A Sneak Peek Inside Our Teen Girls Social Group at Mayflower Early ABA Services
This week the girls started with an exercise designed to build psychological flexibility — an important skill many of our learners are actively working on.
We all know that moment when you begin a piece of art and it doesn’t turn out the way you imagined. The instinct can be to start over, cross it out, or throw it away.
So we practiced something different.
Each girl began painting on a canvas. Then, at different points, they were asked to pass their canvas to the person next to them and add something new — a tree, a shape, something their friend in the room loves.
Suddenly the artwork wasn’t just theirs anymore.
This simple activity naturally brought up opportunities to practice important skills:
✨ Flexibility when plans change
✨ Emotional regulation when something doesn’t go as expected
✨ Collaboration and teamwork
✨ Perspective taking and respecting others’ ideas
At first there was a little discomfort — which is exactly where growth happens. By the end, every canvas had become a shared work of art that everyone contributed to.
After the exercise, the girls began working on the craft project they will create and sell at a local craft fair.
This project is turning into a full real-world learning experience. The group will be working on:
💰 Managing money and pricing items
🎨 Designing their craft and logo
🤝 Collaboration and teamwork
🛍 Customer service and selling their products
🧠 Planning and executive functioning
👭 Building real friendships
The best part? The girls are learning that not every piece of art has to be perfect for us — someone else might absolutely love it.
And that’s a pretty powerful lesson.
This is just a sneak peek of the creativity, flexibility, and friendship happening in our Friday night teen group. 💙
