After completing Beach Babies week in Creative Play, we have created some extra sensory play ideas you can do at home. There are so many great resources you can collect for hours of fun, especially when it comes to the exploring the ocean. You can simply take a trip to your local beach to gather natural objects or use specially made items to offer a diverse range of sensory play.
Firstly, we have used a sensory tub (this one is from IKEA) and filled with these amazing water marbles. The texture of these are amazing and children can refine their fine motor skills by scooping with spoons, placing into bowls, hiding objects in them (we have used these sensory shells).
Resources:
Water Marbles
Teak Moon Spoons
Textured shells
Pretend play is a great way to extend the sensory experience, especially for the slightly older children. We have added these beautiful felt mermaids and silk scarf to expand the play into some creative storytelling.
Resources:
Felt Mermaids
Silk Scarf
Its amazing how something so simple can make such an impact. we added some uncooked pasta shapes dyed in food colouring and edible glitter. These little shapes can make amazing patterns in the playdough powder. Pressing into the playdough develops great control, coordination and wrist and finger strength.
Resources:
Pasta (Just from your local supermarket)
Food colouring (Just from your local supermarket)
MakeMud Playdough Powder
Don’t waste any of the coloured pasta shells! Place them in clear containers or Treasure Tubes like these. A great opportunity to focus on colour identification and well as making music by shaking them.
Resources:
Pasta (Just from your local supermarket)
Food colouring (Just from your local supermarket)
Treasure Tubes
Have fun!