SENSORY PLAY

*WHY SENSORY PLAY IS IMPORTANT?

Sensory play is important for young children, it gives them endless ways to develop and learn. 

All types of play are essential for children’s development and early learning. Play helps children to develop and improve their gross and fine motor skills, co-ordination and concentration. Also how to work cooperatively and collaboratively, use all their senses to discover and explore their environment, and develop their imagination, creative thinking and ability to problem solve and experiment with solutions.

So, for this reason, we're going to give you some examples of how to work through this kind of activities:

1-DIY galaxy slime.

With this activity, children can develop:

• Their creativity.
• Hand-eye coordination.
• Experiment through all the senses.
• Patience.
• They can experiment with the different qualities of the slime.
• Learn different colours.
• Learn quantities.

2-Mixing primary colours.

We have 3 different glasses, full with water and colours colorant

We'll make a bridge between the glasses with a serviette, so children can see the change of colour.

With this activity children can:

• Dintinguish between primary and secondary colours.
• Develop cognitive skills.
• Learn the colours.
• Stimulate their creativity.

3-Color sorting sensory bag.

color sorting bag

With this activity children can develop:

• Hand-eye coordination.
• Cognitive skills.
• Learn the colours.
• Patience.
• Sizes.
• Figures.

4-Making bubbles.

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With this activity, children can:

• Hand-eye coordination.
• New textures.
• New fragant smells.
• How to transfer.
• Temperatures.
• We can add colorants and show him different colours.
• New properties.

5-Soapy sensory jar.

• Fill a peanut butter jar (or other large plastic jar) half-way with water. Add food coloring of your choice.
• Add some dish soap. Lots if you want lots of bubbles!
• Add glitter in too if you’d like some sparkles.
• Then put on the lid. 

With this activity, children can develop/learn:

• Weights.
• Colours.
• Sizes.
• Fine motor skills.
• Textures (glass, plastic...)