Check out some exciting sensory play ideas to do at home!
Colourful spaghetti worms – great for squeezing, squashing and manipulating
You will need cooked and cooled spaghetti, large tray, pebbles, small bucket or container, food colouring, liquid paper and a permanent marker pen.
To colour the spaghetti, place approximately 8 drops of each colour food dye into separate bowls. Evenly share out the cooled spaghetti into the bowls and gently stir until the colouring has evenly dispersed. Add more colouring for depth in colour, if desired.
MATHS ACTIVITIES –
- Sensory play is a great opportunity for kids to explore language and use descriptive words. Words to describe what they are experiencing, their senses and what they are feeling; slippery, slimy, soft, squishy and sticky.
- Search for the hidden number rocks in the spaghetti worms. Start searching at the beginning with number 1 and hide the numbers you are not looking for back into the spaghetti worms. As your child finds each number, place them in order from 1 – 10 along the tray. Point at each number and count out loud.
- Talk about the number shapes and how each number looks, such as number 5 looks like it has a big tummy. Funny little things like this help children learn their numbers as they associate it with something familiar to them.
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Another fun thing to do at home and out in the garden with the weather being so nice!
Rice and Ice
SOME IDEAS:
- Talk about the rhyming words rice and ice: can you think of another word that rhymes with rice and ice? Words such as mice, twice, vice, nice and so on. You may like to try and write these words in the wet rice on the tray.
- Talk about the two different coloured ice blocks and make predictions about what will happen. Make connections with what is happening in the sensory tub and the story Little Blue and Little Yellow.
- Sort the coloured ice into groups according to colour.
- Line all the ice blocks up around the outside of the tray. Try to build and stack with the ice blocks.
Flour and Cocoa powder
Out in a tray and mix- let the children explore how ever they would like.
Salt and food colouring
Great for mark making
Shaving foam and cars
This is an activity we do a lot at school – we love shaving foam.
Marbled shaving foam –
Just add food colouring.
