Under the umbrella sensory play aims at visual system and as such, this rainbow activity is perfect for babies and toddlers. When should you engage your child in this activity? Under the umbrella sensory play would be perfect before nap time in the afternoon, or you can even lay down with them and take a…
Shaving Cream Color Mixing Sensory Bag
We wanted to find a way to explore color mixing within the sensory play. However, we needed the activity to be mess-free. Our Shaving Cream Color Mixing Sensory Bag provided the perfect solution for babies and toddlers who don’t really like to get paint all over their hands and clothes. As for you as a…
Q-Tips Activity Ideas for Kids to Play, Learn and Create
Q-tips (cotton buds, cotton swabs or how ever you call them) are one of those inexpensive items we all have at home! On this page you will find different Q-tips activity ideas for sensory play, learning, art and more! Because of their shape and size, q-tips are perfect tools for many different type of activities….
Clean Mud Sensory Play
What child doesn’t enjoy ripping up toilet paper? You can imagine the fun my two had doing just that to create our Clean Mud Sensory Play activity. Continuing our A-Z Sensory Play series we have reached the letter M. We wanted a way of playing with mud without having to leave the house so we…
Autumn Chestnut Hunt and Sensory Play
Every autumn season, we take almost daily walks in our local park and always bring home little treasures. Today girls insisted on picking up chestnuts so we ended with a chestnut sensory play – Chestnut hunt and soup! Outdoor Chestnut Hunt in the Park Our park is filled with chestnut trees and, since chestnuts are…
Winter Sensory Bins for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Explore winter indoors! Put together a winter sensory bin for your toddlers and preschoolers and let them enjoy playing in a warmth of your home. We have winter sensory bins with real snow, different bases for fake snow, sensory bins to explore Arctic and Antarctic, and Frozen inspired sensory bins for Olaf, Elsa and Anna…
Homemade Orange and Cinnamon Scented Playdough
When you think about winter, which scents come to your mind? For me, scents associated with winter are orange and cinnamon! So, today we made orange and cinnamon scented homemade playdough for pretend play in kid’s kitchen! Both of my kids enjoyed playing with orange and cinammon scented playdough – they kept sniffing the dough and their…
Sparkly Red Slime for Valentine’s Day
With upcoming Valentine’s day next month, we decided to make a sparkly red slime for today’s sensory play. Slime is very popular with kids and it provides wonderful sensory experience. Hope your kids will also enjoy playing with sparkly red Valentine’s Day slime! Girls really enjoyed playing with the slime and had no trouble touching…
Kids’ Sensory Activities: Nature Exploration
It’s summer-time and the great outdoors offers plenty of opportunities for kids’ sensory activities. But, wait. It’s unbearably hot, raining or just not a nice day to go outside. What now? Bring the outdoors in. Summer Plant Sensory Bin We’ve all been there. You’ve meticulously planned the best day ever. It includes a parkside picnic,…
Summer Sensory Play with Mud
What better materials to use in your spring or summer sensory play activities than dirt? Seriously. It’s everywhere. Oh, and it’s free. You can’t beat that, right? Here is a quick setup for sensory play with mud you can do in your own backyard! Mud Play Activity One summer our garden was in a…well, let’s…