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14 Valentine’s Day Sensory Play Ideas
14 Valentine’s Day Sensory Play Ideas Valentine’s Day Ice Play Loving Hands – Little Bins for Little Hands Melting Hearts Word Search – Inspiration Laboratories Valentine’s Sensory Box – Learning and Exploring Through Play Valentine’s Day Play Dough – Craftulate Heart Textured Playdough -Learning and Exploring Through Play An Invitation to Make..Love Bugs – Multicraftingmummy Valentine’s Day Goop on the Light Table – Happily Ever Mom Valentine’s Sensory Play – Where Imagination Grows Valentine’s Sensory Snowglobe – In the Playroom Valentine Sensory Bin – Fantastic Fun and Learning Foaming Hearts Sensory Play – Twodaloo Thawing a Frozen Heart Science and Sensory Activity – Totschooling Valentine’s Playdough Candy Shop –…
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25 St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Play Ideas and Recipes
25 St Patrick’s Day Sensory Play Recipes, Bins and Ideas St Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin – Feels Like Home 40+ St Patrick’s Day Sensory Tubs – Living Montessori Now St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin and Activities – Fantastic Fun and Learning St Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin Activity – Kids Play Box St Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin – The Chaos and The Clutter St Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin – I Heart Crafty Things St Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin – Golden Reflections Blog 10 St Patrick’s Day Sensory Bins – The Jenny Evolution Golden Treasures Sensory Jar – Kids Play Box Jello Treasure – Carrots Are Orange Shamrock Playdough – Here…
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10 Fantastic Fall Activities for Kids – Autumn Arts, Crafts and Lots More!
10 Fantastic Fall Activities for Kids – Autumn arts, crafts and lots more from my some of my favourite bloggers and pinners! 10 Fantastic Autumn Activities for Kids I have pinned! (if you click on the the “pins” displayed below it will take straight to each blogger’s own pin to repin to your own boards) 1. If you haven’t already, you should check out Kyla’s – The Train Driver’s Wife – blog – it is full of amazing and creative activities for babies and toddlers. I love this fun colourful activity for encouraging babies to discover autumn colours. 2. Craftulate is one of my favourite websites for creative and fun…
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Foam Painting – Painting and Printing with Shaving Foam
This is such a fun activity! It combines two of our favourites – messy play and painting! This is simple, fun and suitable for all ages from toddlers up! It has been a while since we last did this and a recent post from Left Brain Craft Brain inspired me to try it again. What we used: shaving foam (we but cheap and cheerful but does the job perfectly) paints trays (we used a baking tray and a printing tray, our second printing tray is still missing!!!!) paint brushes card What we did: Doodles sprayed some foam onto each tray Doodles and Oodles then spread the the foam over the…
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Foam Dough – Squishy Squashy Sensory Fun!
Shaving foam is a fantastic material to use in a variety of ways in sensory play. My little girl Oodles loves to sit in her mini paddling pool in her swim suit play with the foam and toys. We have created gorgeous paint foam prints and of course there is foam dough. What we used: 1 cup of cornflour/cornstarch 2 cups of shaving foam paint What we did: Doodles and Oodles measured out the cornflour and added it to their bowls D poured the shaving foam into each bowl – O couldn’t quite manage to press the nozzle They chose their colour of choice and squeezed it into…
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Cloud Dough with a Fizzy Surprise – Sensory Play with a Science Twist!
We love to experiment with sensory play, recipes and doughs. Doodles loves doing experiments and he asked if we could do a fizzy one today. Oodles wanted to make dough so I decided we could try and combine both. What we used: 1 cup of flour 1 cup of baby oil food colouring 1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda vinegar What we did: I gave Doodles and Oodles the ingredients and encouraged them to measure out what they needed by themselves. They then mixed the ingredients in a bowl before emptying onto the table to mix with their hands as if making breadcrumbs They loved the texture were delighted to see…
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What’s Inside the Ice-Cube? – Outdoor Summer Fun!
Number 81 on our 100 Days of Summer Bucket list is “Discover what’s inside the giant ice cube!”. Doodles and Oodles have been dying to try this out since I showed them a number of similar activities on other blogs and Pinterest! Doodles actually did this at nursery when he was 2 or 3 years old and has often referred to it since! So, yesterday as I was reading down through our bucket list and ticking off a few more items I spotted number 81 and decided that would be our next activity! What we used: basin water toy dinosaurs meat mallet kitchen utensils spades, spoons, plastic knives freezer!!!! What…
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Fizzy Glittery Playdough / Gloop – Super Sensory Fun!
A group of fantastic bloggers from the Kid Blogger Network (of which I am a member) are running a year long linky called “12 Months of Sensory Dough”. Each month there is a theme for the dough and bloggers are encouraged to experiment with the theme and share their experiences (good and bad). We love sensory play and make a lot of playdough and love to experiment with new recipes. So, as it was raining heavily this morning I decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to experiment with fizzy dough, this months theme!!!! The Bloggers hosting this fantastic project are: Lemon Lime Adventures Look! We’re Learning! Glittering Muffins…
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Bubble Painting with Straws – Indoor Messy Art Fun, Perfect for a Rainy Day
Today we had a really thundery afternoon, with lots of heavy rain downpours – a perfect day for messy art. I had been planning on doing some bubble painting with straws for awhile now as I love to do this in school and I knew that Doodles and Oodles would absolutely love it! Little did I know that we would have the messiest fun we have had in a long time! Originally my planned activity was along the lines of these great activities from Nurture Store and Meet The Dubiens . However, our afternoon of creativity took on a life of it’s own and this is what we got up to!…
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Beach Themed Invitation to Play – Small World Play and Sensory Play
A Beach Themed sensory play activity was on our 100 Days of Summer Bucket List and this week we had we had the opportunity to cross it off our list and have a whole lot of fun doing it! So, what is an invitation to play (you may have seen this term used on this blog and elsewhere before)? Simply, it is arranging an activity in an attractive manner that will encourage a child’s curiosity, allow opportunities for exploration, independent play and participation in a meaningful, purpose and sensory way. It should invite the child to want to play and use their imagination. Of course it should also be age…
