Sensory Play and Early Child Development
Sensory play includes any activity that stimulates your young child’s senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Sensory activities and sensory tables facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore. Spending time stimulating their senses helps children develop cognitively, linguistically, socially and emotionally, physically and creatively. Learn all about child development through sensory play, find activities and crafts that encourage sensory play and discover how to make your own sensory table .
Easter and Spring sensory bin
Exploring flour
Just a fine sprinkling of flour over a table top makes for some intriguing exploration. Toddlers love to make swirly patterns with their fingers or pat a mound of flour to make hand shaped indentations. Making it ‘snow’ with a sieve is definitely great fun.
And we made a bit of mess on the way: )!They loved it soooo much....
Christmas sensory bin
This is such a simple activity to put together. I asked children to help me by cutting cotton wool in small pieces to make it look like snow :). Then I put some Christmas decorations in it and left the children freely to play with our new sensory bin.
Exploring Corn
Pompoms sensory table
As in class we introduced the circle shape I found 12 circle objects and put them in a container.
Then I poured some pompoms in the container which hidden all the objects !!!!
I explained the children what they have to do and I showed them by picking up the first object !
Then i asked each child to look very carefully around the classroom, and to find blue things to put them on the display table.
This is the result of our display table :)
Children love to explore and observe everything around them. The sensory table is a center for exploring with your senses, experimenting, scooping, and pouring, squeezing and smashing (building fine motor skills for writing and increase maths and science skills), sharing, and turn taking.
The more ways that they can explore the more that children will learn. Sensory table activities can be so messy but they provide such wonderful learning opportunities for children that a little mess is well worth the mess.
As in other places children benefits from special tables like these:
Our classroom sensory table consist of a plastic container that sits on our regular tables. I started to introduce to your children rice play.There are many benefits of this sensory table, for example it gives the children a place to relax and develop their play and learning skills through touch, sound and light. The benefits for the children are endless. At school I noticed that when children use the rice, sand,nature etc before doing an activity in class they improve their attention to task. This will overall improve their education and learning abilities.
Children Exploring rice
Children Exploring sand
Children Exploring natural materials
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