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Set out a large box. One big enough for your child to crawl into. |
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Line the walls of the box with different textured paper or material. |
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Your child will have fun exploring this sensory cave.
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TOUCH PILLOWS
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Make or buy your child some small pillows with different textures to play with. |
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For a real challenge, get two of four different kinds of pillows. |
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Then, mix up the pillows and have your child find sets of two that feel the same. |
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Set out a child’s plastic swimming pool. |
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Each day, fill the bottom of the pool with different sensory materials; such as; sponges, egg carton bottoms, sand paper, cotton batting, rugs. |
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Let your child enjoy walking or crawling across the texture of the day. |
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Play a game with your child (or children) |
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Play some music and have them dance. |
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Then stop the music and have them stop. |
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Continue playing and stopping. |
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Children must listen for the music before they can dance. |
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Collect some small plastic bottles or you can use plastic Easter eggs. |
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Fill the bottles or eggs with items that will each make a different sound.
Examples: salt, beans, paper clips, rice. |
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Let your children shake the bottles to listen to the sounds. |
| Variation: For older children, make sets of different sound bottles. Have your child shake the bottles and find bottles that sound the same. |
Caution: Be sure to supervise this game and make sure that your child does not attempt to open the bottles or eggs.
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Set out some items that make noise; such as; a bell, a drum, two pan lids, a radio. |
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Make a noise with the item and have your child tell you if the sound was loud or soft. |
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Have your child make their own loud and soft sounds. |
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Set out two or three paper cups. |
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Place a cotton ball in each cup, upon which you have placed a scent.
Examples: vanilla extract, lemon extract, onion juice, flower perfume.
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Have your child (or children) try to tell you what each cup smells like. |
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If they do not know the name of the smell, they can tell you if they like the smell or not. |
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Set out 3 or 4 fragrant flowers in four glasses of water. |
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Have your child smell each flower and tell you which flower smell, they like the best. |
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Set out a yellow piece of paper |
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Ask your child to look around the room for small objects that are the same color as the yellow paper. |
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Have them place the objects on the paper. |
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Continue with other colors, if interest lasts. |
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Have your child find a color they are wearing. |
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Then look for someone else who is wearing the same color. |
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Set out a pile of socks of different colors. |
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Have your child sort the socks by color into pairs. |
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Go outside on a size search. |
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Point to two objects and have your child tell you which of the two objects is bigger (or smaller). |
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Children should be able to visually see the difference without having to measure the objects. |
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Children love doing taste tests. |
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Set out two mini snacks. |
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Have your child try both of them and tell you which one they liked best. |
| Variation: Set out two snacks, one salty and one not salty. Have your child tell you which snack was salty. |
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Let your child sample something that is sweet and then something that is sour. |
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Can he name which snack was sweet and which was sour? |
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