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Loads of play ideas to stimulate the senses
Salt Dough Sand Dough
4 cups of salt 1 cup sand
1 cup of corn flour ½ cup corn flour
Water ¾ cup hot water
1. Mix salt and corn flour in pan 1. Mix ingredients in pan
2. Add enough water to form a paste. 2. Cook, until very thick.
3. Cook over medium heat stirring 3. Let models dry in sun for 12
constantly.
hoursModelling Dough Clean Mud
2 cups salt 1 bar ‘Dove’ soap
1 cup corn flour 1 roll toilet paper
1 cup warm water 1 gallon of water
1. In a large tub layer up toilet
1. Mix in pan on a low heat.
roll.
2. Model.
2. Grate soap and sprinkle over
3. leave to harden or cook on low paper.
heat.
3. Add warm water.
Great dough that is very 4. Leave over night .
Smooth and soft. Hardens 5. Use to make models.
quickly and paints well.Corn flour dough Fruity Putty
1 cup corn flour
0.3 ounce sugar free jelly powder.
1 cup warm water 2 cups flour
1 tbs oil 1 cup salt
4 tbsp cream of tater
1. Mix in pan, cook until thick.
2 tbs cooking oil
2. Makes a smooth dough. 2 cups boiling water
• Mix dry ingredients in pan.
• Add boiling water and oil stir
over medium heat until ball
formed.Shaving foam Sensory Fun
• Spray foam onto table/ tray.
Marshmallows
• Allow children to spread around,
Melt in microwave, very sticky.
draw patterns or letters with
fingers. Add washing up liquid t o make
• Add powder paint mix colours. slimy and bubbly
• Take prints by putting paper on
top. Mashed Potato
Use sensitive shaving foam Instant, allow children to mix with
Water, add food colouring.
Bubble Squish
• Pour bath foam on table add a Other substances to explore
yogurt pot of water and mix with Hair gel
hands. Continue as above.
Moisturiser
• Alternatively use no tears
Vaseline
shampoo if there is a risk of
children rubbing eyes. Baby massage gelGoop Cloud Dough
1 cup corn flour 8 parts flour
Water 1 part baby oil
1. Put corn flour in tray/ bowl
Mix together, it will be soft yet
2. Slowly add water until runny holds together like wet sand.
but malleable
Let children play with corn flour before
adding water. Add a splash of food colouring.
Add colouring and peppermint or vanilla
essence for smell. Use different scents of baby oil,
Use instant custard powder- no need appropriate to colour.
to add smell or colourSand Ideas Cereal
Chereos
Add a splash of water and washing up
liquid for another sensory element. *Thread
Rice Crsipies
Add food colouring too. Add water &
Colouring, listen *Float on
Add PVA glue and a dash of paint, allow & squish
Water
to play on card and then dry to create
longer term creation.
Use in a shallow tray, add paintbrushes Wheat Biscuits
and allow to make marks *Float on water
Cornflakes *Mix with water
Add glitter. Add water
and colour Oats
Add metal objects and play using
magnets for children to find the objects. Dry-avoid
excessive eating.
Put a shallow amount of sand on top of Add water-
a bright picture or mirror children move Squishy & silky
sand until they find picture.Snow Jelly
Mould into shapes using jelly
Lux soap flakes
moulds.
Water
Mash up green jelly for swamp.
Mix water soap flakes and water
Put small objects inside jelly
using manual and electric whisks before setting, children explore
jelly to get them out.
A small amount of water will
allow ‘snow’ to be moulded
and left to harden. A greater For those who are sensory
amount of water will great defensive set jelly in
amount of bubbles, provide a polythene bag.
range of whisks.Pasta Natural Play
Pasta shapes/ spaghetti • Soil: Add dinosaurs, bugs,
animals, garden tools, pots etc.
Food colouring
Water • Turf: Add dinosaurs, animals,
tractors, small people etc.
Cooking oil
• Autumn leaves: Give children a
1. Cook pasta according to packet. wheel barrow to collect and put
2. Add food colouring to water before into paddling pool to jump in.
cooking and plenty of oil to prevent • Hay/ straw: Smells great,
sticking and make it slimy. children can make nests, feed
3. When cooked, rinse well with hot animals etc. Provide hay bail to
water pull apart great for motor skills.
• Feathers: Large amount of craft
Supermarket’s do nice range of
feathers in paddling pool to sit in.
shapes to suit a range of topics. • Shells: A large selection
Use noodles (Chinese, Japanese, presented on blue material, shiny
rice, super noodles) instead they metal trays or child safe mirror.
usually just need soaking in hot • Pine cones: Loads of sizes in
water.
basketFlax Semolina
Packet of flax 1 cup sand
Water ½ cup corn flour
¾ cup hot water
Give to children to play with dry. it
Use as an alternative to sand, it has
Is very silky and slides between
A lovely texture and great for pouring.
Fingers.
If it gets wet though it forms little
balls.
Add water and boil makes a very
glutinous mixture.
Allow children to mix with water to
make a very sticky and grainy paste.Tapioca Cellulose slime
Packet Tapioca Cellulose powder
Water Water
Food colouring Food colouring
1. Allow children to explore dry tapioca
in great alterative to sand feels 1. Mix water and powder according
great, but can become very static. to instructions, stir quickly slowly
2. Boil tapioca according to instructions adding powder
using water instead of milk, add 2. Leave over night.
food colouring.
3. Add food colouring.
Great for putting in Cellulose powder available from
the water tray School suppliers used for Paper
as frogs spawn
Mache.Little Scientist Ice
Freeze
Put water
Children love to mix things together to Objects
into moulds
make potions, provide children materials Into ice.
With children
To create their own laboratory for
Example clear plastic pots, plastic bottles, Use range
Spoons, lolly sticks, pipettes and cloths. Of moulds
Grate to
including
make snow
Large, small
Possible Ingredients Balloons, gloves
Cooking oil Water Provide
Salt to
Vinegar Ketchup
Melt ice.
Baking powder Corn flour Put
Baby oil Flour in water
Add food colouring
Salt Ice add
Before freezing.
Sugar Food colouring Layer up different penguins
Bicarbonate of soda etc.
Colours as they freeze.Colour Mixing Icing Sugar Painting
Play Dough Icing Sugar
Give children balls of primary Powder paint
Colours, allow them to mix.
water
Hand Painting 1. Make a thin solution of icing
Paint one hand one colour the sugar spread over paper.
Other another rub hands
2. Sprinkle powder paint over
Together to make new one.
paper.
Water 3. Allow to dry (Takes a long
Add primary coloured food colour time)
to clear pots of water. Use 4. Dries shiny.
syringes or pipettes to transfer
water to another pot to create
new colours.Bubble Trouble Finger Paint
1/2 cup of washing up liquid
2 cups white flour
5 cups water
2 tablespoons glycerine
2 cups cold water
1 teaspoon of sugar. food coloring
(put in microwave for 10 sec’s before use for
better bubbles) Add other materials to make it a
differing sensory experience
Unusual Bubble Blowers Instead of food colouring use
Funnels powdered jelly to add colour and
Plastic tubing strong scent.
Hula hoops Allow children to play with this on
Rope tied in a hoop a plastic surface then take a print.
Tennis racquet Put paint onto a plastic mirror to get
Plastic netting a nice reflection back when playing,
again take print.
Make huge amount put in large tub Warm in microwave, just prior to use.
Put in shallow tray and use feet.You can also read
