Sensory Play
Sensory Play provides opportunities for children to use their senses when they take part in a variety of experiences. Encouraging children to explore, investigate and examine during sensory experiences helps them identify and associate textures with how they feel.
By participating in Sensory Play on a regular basis, a child may:
- develop physical, social, emotional, language and cognitive skills
- explore different textures and materials through their senses (e.g., touch, smell, sight, etc.)
- develop skills in problem solving
- become curios and develop a positive attitude to new experiences
Sensory Play allows children the option of not having to have a plan or focus on the outcome or creation.
Everyday Sensory Play examples include using playdough, sensory bag or box, water play, sand play, slime or goop, modelling clay, finger painting, sponge painting, salt painting, bubbles and moon sand. View a range of sensory play activities below:
Frozen Animals
Frozen Animals invites children to use their senses and explore the sensation of the ‘cold’ item while also offering the opportunity to explore how to remove the items from the ice.
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Shaving Cream Play
Shaving cream is an amazing, messy, sensory experience that uses all five senses of touch, sight, smell, sound and even
Messy Mud Play
Mud play provides an opportunity for children to connect with nature and their natural world through sensory and play-based learning. Children learn to problem solve, develop autonomy and manage risk.
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Bugs In The Mud
Sensory activities are great for children of all ages! They allow children to learn and create in a safe, stimulating play environment. Children learn so much by playing with their surroundings.
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Slime Time
This activity is simple, low cost, teaches mathematical and science concepts, like ratios and measurements, and is a messy play activity that is extremely popular.
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Stress Ball
The idea of a stress ball is to encourage children to focus on something other than what is making them anxious.
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Make A Rice Tray
This is a fun activity that explores and develops many skills including cognitive, speech and language, and fine and gross motor. It also teaches children maths and science skills.
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Sensory Bag Play
This activity provides sensory and exploratory play to encourage
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Collage
Creating a recycling collage is an activity that can be enjoyed by many, and it invites children to use their senses to explore the sensation of the different textures, shapes
