By ECMS Communications
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Activities that stimulate the five senses - touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing - enable your child to have fun while exploring
and learning from the world around them.
Sensory play can help your child:
- Relax when they're frustrated on anxious by moving their attention to a mindful activity.
- Build important fine and gross motor skills.
- Develop communication, social, cognitive and problem-solving skills.
- Enhance memory function.
- Learn new concepts such as wet, dry, cold, hot, smooth and rough.
Sensory Play Ideas
These sensory play activities are simple to set up and plenty of fun:
- Mud, sludge, bubbles, slime, kinetic sand and Play-Doh.
- Sensory boxes/bins filled with different food or non-food related tactile objects.
- Homemade miniature muddy farms, beaches, parks or duckponds.
- Rainbow rice and pasta.
Check out these wonderful sensory play ideas from our friends at Storypark.
Play-Doh Recipe
Play-Doh is an all-time favourite sensory play activity for little ones and something you can quickly whip up at home.
What you need
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 cup of water
- ½ cup cooking salt
- 1 tbs of cooking oil
- 1 tbs of cream of tartar
- Food colouring
Mix the flour, water, food colouring, salt and cream of tartar in a saucepan over medium heat until thick.
Allow the mixture to cool and then add the oil and knead well over a floured chopping board or similar.
It’s that simple!
